- Policy
- Argentina’s support to sustainable development
- Cross-border resources to TOSSD recipients (Pillar 1)
- Sectoral distribution In 2024, 56% of Argentina’s cross-border activities targeted social infrastructure and services in TOSSD recipients in activity terms. Support in this area primarily focused on culture (16%) and population policies (14%). Just under a third (32%) of Argentina’s South-South co-operation activities targeted production sectors, mainly focused on support for agriculture, forestry and fishing (18%).
- Triangular co-operation
- Institutional set-up
- Other profiles
- Additional resources
Development Co‑operation Profiles: Argentina
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Argentina engages in international development co-operation as an integral part of its foreign policy, with a dual role as both a provider and a beneficiary of development co-operation. Its approach is rooted in South‑South and triangular co-operation and its activities are primarily focused on the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. In 1978, the country hosted the United Nations Conference on Technical Co‑operation among Developing Countries that resulted in the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA ’78) establishing the overall framework for South-South co-operation. Argentina renewed its commitment in 2019 by hosting the BAPA+40 conference, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the foundational framework for South‑South co-operation.
This profile presents verified data on Argentina’s development assistance allocation. See the Development Co-operation Profiles.
Argentina’s international co-operation aims to position the country as a relevant actor in the international arena and to address common development challenges multilaterally. Its technical co-operation is demand-driven and channelled through South‑South and triangular co-operation modalities, using multi‑actor partnerships with local government, the private sector, civil society, international organisations and multilateral development banks. Argentina’s development co-operation is implemented mainly through the “Argentine Fund for International Cooperation” (FO-AR) and draws on Argentina’s expertise in the areas of sustainable agriculture and livestock, food security, soil and water resource management, health, forensic anthropology, and cultural co-operation.
Argentina champions global co-operation through its participation in international and regional platforms such as the United Nations, the G20 and G77, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It has assumed leadership positions in other fora, chairing the first Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Conference on South-South Cooperation in 2023-2025 and the Organisation of American States Permanent Council in 2024. Argentina also plays an active role in the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and its Ibero-American Programme for the Promotion of South-South Cooperation. At the multilateral level, Argentina particularly advocates for addressing the development gaps and inequalities in the LAC region, as well as the constraints middle-income countries face in accessing development finance.
In 2024, Argentina, Portugal and Angola launched a triangular co-operation project financed through the “Portugal‑Latin America‑Africa Triangular Cooperation Fund”, managed by the Ibero-American General Secretariat. The project aimed to provide technical training for officials in public management and to share best practices in governance. It was carried out in collaboration with the National University of Villa María, the Technical Management Unit of the National Staff Training Plan of the Civil House of the President of the Republic of Angola, and the City Council of Braga (Portugal). Additionally, it received support from the Fernando Pessoa University in Porto.
The project officially concluded in February 2026, following three in-person missions (two in Luanda and one in Córdoba) and two virtual sessions. Key results achieved include: the strengthening of capacities in public educational management; the promotion of Spanish-Portuguese bilingualism as a tool for inter-institutional co-operation; the creation of sustainable products, including an international bilingual publication and best practice repositories; and the consolidation of international co-operation networks in strategic areas.
Source: Information provided by the Department of International Co-operation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina (2026).
Argentina reported on Total Official Support to Sustainable Development (TOSSD) for the first time in the 2024 data collection round on 2023 activities.1
In the 2025 TOSSD data collection round on 2024 activities, Argentina reported 50 activities in cross-border support of sustainable development of TOSSD-recipient countries (TOSSD Pillar 1).
In 2024, Argentina engaged in triangular co-operation activities in Latin America and the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. The main sectors of its triangular co‑operation were social infrastructure, population policies and health.
In 2024, according to Argentina, the country conducted triangular co-operation activities mostly with international co-operation agencies such as the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation; Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua; GIZ; the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and with international and regional bodies such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture and the Pan-American Health Organization, among others. Argentina is a member of the Global Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Co-operation.
Learn more about triangular co-operation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship is responsible for planning, developing and co-ordinating Argentina’s international co-operation, through the Department of International Cooperation.
The ministry co-ordinates the “FO-AR”, Argentina’s main mechanism to implement technical co‑operation projects and share its expertise and good practices. The FO-AR was created in 1992 and over the last 30+ years has implemented more than 11 000 international co-operation activities in more than 80 countries, on all continents, with the participation of more than 8 000 technicians. Projects prioritise the development of human capital through trainings and the transfer of knowledge. The FO-AR promotes a multi-stakeholder approach to projects, including the participation of civil society organisations, academia and the private sector.
The ministry also hosts the “Comisión Cascos Blancos” (White Helmets Commission), an autonomous body established in 1995 by Decree No. 379/95. The commission is responsible for humanitarian action, emergency response and disaster risk management in response to ad hoc requests from affected countries or following international appeals. It relies heavily on volunteers to carry out its activities. The commission aims to uphold the commitments of the Sendai Framework (2015-2030) and is based on the humanitarian action principles established by Resolution 46/182 of the United Nations General Assembly. With 30 years of experience, the “Cascos Blancos” have developed over 400 international humanitarian assistance projects and missions in 81 different countries on all continents, in addition to carrying out solidarity actions in Argentina.
Access the full list of providers of development co-operation at: Development Co-operation Profiles.
SEGIB (2024), Informe de la Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular en Iberoamérica 2024, Ibero-American Secretariat General, Madrid, https://informesursur.org/es/report/informe-de-la-cooperacion-sur-sur-y-triangular-en-iberoamerica-2024 (in Spanish).
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship: https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/iniciativas/cooperacion-argentina and https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/iniciativas/cooperacion-argentina/cooperacion-argentina (in Spanish).
FO-AR: https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/iniciativas/cooperacion-argentina/foar (in Spanish).
Multilateral co-operation: https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/iniciativas/cooperacion-argentina/cooperacion-multilateral (in Spanish).
Cascos Blancos: https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/politica-exterior/cascos-blancos and https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/267448/20220728 (in Spanish).
On 25 January 2022, the OECD Council decided to open accession discussions with Argentina and on 26 March 2024 adopted a Roadmap for the OECD Accession of Argentina.
Argentina is Adherent to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the OECD Recommendation of the Council for Development Co-operation Actors on Managing the Risk of Corruption, the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, and the Declaration on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation. Learn more about OECD legal instruments and DAC Recommendations.
Argentina participated in the first LAC Regional Programme Dialogue on Development Co-operation in 2024 and in the 2025 LAC-DAC Co-Lab series on Reducing Poverty and Inequalities and Multidimensionality Metrics for Development (co-chaired by Argentina and Spain).
Argentina participated in the DAC High Level Meeting in 2025.
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← 1. Argentina also reports to the Ibero-American Integrated Data System for South-South and Triangular Cooperation and takes part in the 2nd phase of the Pilot of the Conceptual Framework to Measure South-South Cooperation, developed with the assistance of UN Trade and Development.