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IDEASS has been set up in 2001 in the framework of the human development and anti-poverty programmes with a territorial approach, realized by the governments of various countries with the support of UNDP, UNOPS, ILO, WHO, IFAD and other United Nations Agencies. Since 1989 these programmes, known with different names and framed in the national policies, have promoted integrated and participatory territorial development processes, with the support of public, private and civil society actors. Over the years, they have been implemented in Albania, Angola, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Serbia, South Africa and Tunisia.

IDEASS has been created as an international thematic complement to the activities implemented by these programmes in each country to document and disseminate innovative effective solutions that could be of interest at the national and international level. The Switzerland Operation Centre of UNOPS based in Geneva, with the support of ILO and UNDP, established in 2003 an International Technical Secretariat that has implemented a wide range of initiatives at international level and in support of national programmes. IDEASS has been working to identify innovations, including the production of national and international catalogues, to carry out exchanges and knowledge transfer initiatives with the participation of the authors of the innovations, to promote the innovations during events or international and national fairs. Some of the products of these initiatives are still documented on the IDEASS website.

In 2011, to strengthen the results and give continuity to the international activities of the programmes, within the framework of the KIP UN Initiative - Knowledge, Innovations, Policies and Territorial Practices for the United Nations Millennium Platform - promoted by UNOPS in collaboration with other United Nations Agencies, the KIP International School was created. In agreement with its promoters, the KIP School was established as an independent non-profit structure, with the aim of capitalizing on the knowledge and working methods of multilateral territorial development programmes. The activities of IDEASS have been progressively taken over by the KIP International School, which continues to support the actors involved in past multilateral programmes and other development actors who have in common the territorial approach: national and local governments, public services, universities and specialised centres, associations and networks of territorial experiences.

In 2019, the IDEASS programme is managed by KIP International School, through a Technical Secretariat that operates with all its partners. The Scientific Committee of the KIP School, chaired by Edgar Morin, collaborates with IDEASS providing the support required for the development of activities.

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