As an upper-middle income country, Chile has a dual role in international development cooperation. While we still receive cooperation from developed countries in specific areas (for example, to generate clean energy sources, improve management of natural resources, and to respond to other global challenges), we have been consolidating our role as an emerging partner, offering technical assistance and human capital development to other countries in areas in which Chile has particular expertise. We do this through Bilateral Horizontal Cooperation and through Triangular Cooperation with other partners. In the case of Triangular Cooperation, Chile acts as a bridge between developed (generally OECD-DAC members) countries and developing countries, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, although the possibility exists of working with other regions of the world as well, depending on foreign policy priorities.
The specific role of AGCI CHILE is to add value to projects by providing contextual information, ongoing and long-term relationships with international cooperation counterparts, and supporting knowledge and experience transfer with methodologies adapted to specific challenges. Chilean national sectors and institutions provide their expertise and technical knowledge in close coordination with AGCI CHILE.