New initiatives addressing the expectations born at the contact between different societies and cultures, in the context of globalization, often lack the full range of knowledge and skills needed to address such challenges.

Thus, the build-up of partnerships and alliances is critical in addressing the problems embedded in the multiple dimensions of human doing.

Donors carefully appraise the integrity and practical meaning of cooperation initiatives. They don’t relay on the mere good will of the stakeholders of a project.

Humanitarian interventions usually answer to the beneficiaries’ representatives requests of collaboration. Such proposals have to be formalized and dealt with by the recourse to project tools, in order to ensure stakeholders of the existence of opportunities as well as of the practical meaning and impact of the forecast initiatives.

The culture of cooperation is embedded in the development of poor countries. Priority should be given to initiatives building on the practical integration and long term partnerships between aid providers and people and organizations active in emerging countries.

Cooperation initiatives are framed in several steps, since actions identification till visibility actions and results dissemination, through project elaboration, fund raising, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and hand over of the outcome to beneficiaries.

Beneficiaries’ empowerment and ownership of the outcome of such initiatives are key issues. The sustainability of an action mostly depends on their skills – in management, technology adaptation, market access, etc. –, which must exist by the end of the initiative.

Thus, a cooperation project success involves the tuning and integration of flexibility, experience, professional updating and a multi-disciplinary approach.