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Mashav ( he, מש"ב, MASHAV) is the Hebrew acronym for the Agency for International Development Cooperation ( he, המרכז לשיתוף פעולה בינלאומי) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. Mashav is responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the State of Israel's worldwide development and cooperation programs in developing countries. MASHAV believes that its greatest possible contribution to developing countries can be made in fields where Israel has relevant expertise accumulated during its own development experience as a young country facing similar challenges. MASHAV's development programs are conducted through workshops and training in the fields of agriculture, education and medicine and are funded jointly with multinational organizations such as the
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, the UN development plan,
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and the
Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...
. According to the
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, 2020
official development assistance Official development assistance (ODA) is a category used by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to measure aid, foreign aid. The DAC first adopted the concept in ...
from Israel decreased by 1.9% to US$287.6 million.


Background

Mashav was set up in the wake of the Bandung Conference of 1955,Edith Bruder,
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from which Israel had been excluded at the demand of Arab countries who threatened a boycott of the conference if Israel was invited. It was established on
Golda Meir Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and ''kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1 ...
's initiative, in 1958, after her visit to Africa. Meir stated that it was the expression of an empathy with victims of oppression, discrimination and slavery, but the project also blended other goals, such as escaping ‘the Arab noose’ by overcoming the boycott imposed on it by Arab nations. In the 1960s it was also very active in assistance to agricultural development projects in South America.Hugo Harvey Parada
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Since its inception in late 1957, Mashav has striven to share with the rest of the developing world the know-how and technologies which provided the basis for Israel's own rapid development. Mashav started as a modest program, focused on grassroots-level human capacity building at a time when Israel itself was still very much a developing country. It has since blossomed into an extensive program of cooperation throughout the developing world, with the aim of promoting sustainable development and social equity. MASHAV grew gradually and organically in response to repeated requests on the part of the peoples that freed themselves from the yoke of colonialism and were seeking practical and political means of ridding themselves of poverty, hunger and disease that was the heritage of that era. Since its establishment, over 270,000 professionals from more than 132 countries have participated in Mashav's training programs. Mashav promotes the centrality of
human resource Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include ...
enrichment and institutional capacity building in the development process – an approach which has attained global consensus, and implements this principle by offering professional training courses in Israel and in host countries and short and long-term professional consultations. By 2010, Mashav had trained a quarter of a million students, predominantly African, from the developing world in education, health, science and agriculture, cooperating with over 140 countries.Fred Skolnik, ‘’The State of Israel (1948-2000),’ in Michael Avi-Yonah (ed.), https://books.google.it/books?id=AhasMr2F3i8C&pg=PA340 ''A History of Israel and the Holy Land,'' A&C Black, 2003 p.340. The expertise and technology acquired in cultivating areas such as deserts affected by
water scarcity Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water Water resources, resources to meet the standard water demand. There are two types of water scarcity: physical or economic water scarcity. Physical water ...
has underwritten many projects.


India-Israel collaboration

Mashav has signed a Memorandum of understanding with India in April 2015 for the collaboration and knowledge transfer,Embassy of Israel news
15 April 2015.

Business Standard, 15 Apr 2015.
under which several Indo-Israeli Centres of Excellence have bene operationalised in several states, including the following in the state of Haryana:India, Israel Expanding Cooperation In Agri, Water Saving': Israel President
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Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandary & Dairying, Hisar Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandary & Dairying, Hisar, will be built by Haryana State in collaboration with Mashav, MASHAV. The centre will operate in the field of research and training for cost-effective and innovative locali ...
in
Hisar district Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...
# Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables, Gharaunda in
Karnal district Karnal district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in North India which constitutes the National Capital Region (NCR) of the country. The city of Karnal is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) and is the administrative headqu ...
# Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Citrus Fruits and Pomegranate, Mangiana in
Sirsa district Sirsa district is the largest district of Haryana state. Sirsa is the district headquarters. It is located on National Highway 9 and from the capital Delhi. Etymology The district is named after its headquarters, Sirsa. The name, Sirsa is der ...
# Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Bee-keeping, Ram Nagar in
Kurukshetra district Kurukshetra district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. The town of Kurukshetra, a sacred place for the Hindus, is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district occupies an area of 1530.00 km² ...
# Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Mango, Ladwa in Kurukshetra district # Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Floriculture, Sondhi in
Jhajjar district Jhajjar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Carved out of Rohtak district on 15 July 1997 and with its headquarters in Jhajjar, it lies from Delhi and had developed into an important industrial center. Othe ...


See also

* IsraAid * International Conference for Women Leaders *
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* {{Authority control Government agencies of Israel International development agencies Foreign relations of Israel Government agencies established in 1958 1958 establishments in Israel