A/HRC/21/44 North America and the Caribbean. Brazil also maintains technical cooperation programmes with 38 African countries, 22 of which belong to the group of Least Developed Countries. 36. Brazil implements triangular technical cooperation guided by the same principles that inform its South-South cooperation. Triangular cooperation makes it possible to match the comparative advantage from South-South Cooperation and other development partners (bilateral and multilateral), leveraging the impact of knowledge sharing between developing countries.. These factors result in greater positive impact in fostering local development processes. Brazil has implemented or is implementing agreements of triangular cooperation with the United States, the European Union and its members, Japan, in African countries and in Latin America and the Caribbean. United Nations agencies are also playing an important role in Brazilian international cooperation including the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UN Women are also partnering with Brazil. 37. Brazil is also engaged in other modes of cooperation consistent with the principles applied to their other forms of cooperation and which are presently in the initial phase of implementation, including the following: (a) In the interregional context, the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA) created in 2003 by the three countries, established the IBSA Fund for Alleviation of Poverty and Hunger, a pioneer initiative created in 2004 with the purpose of identifying replicable and scalable projects that can be jointly adapted and implemented in interested developing countries. Best practices of the three countries are shared with least developed countries through projects financed by the IBSA Fund, in areas such as agriculture development and food security, safe drinking water, health care and infrastructure, waste collection and recycling, and building capacity to combat HIV/AIDS. Also in the interregional sphere two important initiatives with growing importance are the Africa-South America Summit (ASA) and Arab Countries-South America Summit (ASPA). (b) In the regional context, the South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS) is an intergovernmental entity that is a member of the South American Health Council of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) inaugurated in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The strategic areas of the UNASUR five-year health plan are the South American health vigilance and response network, universal health system development, universal access to medication, health promotion and health determinants, human resources and management. Committed to implementing the South American Health Agenda and the scope of priorities in the UNASUR 2010-2015 Five-Year Health Plan, ISAGS accordingly focuses its actions on the following strategies: interchange and training of human resources; lines of research and diagnostics; accumulation and dissemination of knowledge on governance in health; organization of the supply and demand for cooperation; and promotion of networking. 38. ABC has established a programme named Brazilian Technical Cooperation: Agriculture, Food Security and Social Policies for the 2011-2012 biennium. The programme consists of 24 short courses in 40 to 80 class hours, being held in Brazil for interested parties from countries in the Caribbean, Africa, Central and Southern Asia, the Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. It is being implemented by ABC in collaboration with 20 Brazilian agencies with renowned competency in the fields of agriculture, the environment, fisheries and aquaculture, food safety, rural development, food safety policy and gender policy. Brazil believes this to be a legitimate example of South-South cooperation as it also expects to learn from partners, since all parties involved benefit from international technical exchange. 8