Beschreibung:
The purpose of this study was the development of SWOT analyses in three selected cross-border areas in Central America showing a high potential for CBC but where sustainable and systematic territorial cooperation has not yet been achieved. Within the findings of these SWOT analyses, it has always been stressed that the tasks to implement an integrated and sustained activity to protect and develop CBC initiatives in Central America should be done by institutions at supra-national, national and local level (multi-level governance and subsidiarity), as well as by other non-public actors, as it is the case of non-governmental organisations and enterprises (partnership). Cross-border local development is the keyword, and this is also in the focus of initiatives like PRESANCA I and II (Regional Programme for Food and Nutrition Security in Central America) and PRESISAN (Regional Program on Information Systems for Food and Nutrition Security in Central America) through Cross-Border Territorial Units (UTT), but the participation of the local level is yet to be strongly promoted and fully exploited.