IBSA

About IBSA

IBSA is a unique Forum which brings together India, Brazil and South Africa, three large democracies and major economies from three different continents, facing similar challenges. All three countries are developing, pluralistic, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious nations. The grouping was formalized and named the IBSA Dialogue Forum when the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Brasilia on 6 June 2003 and issued the Brasilia Declaration. India is current IBSA Chair.

Five IBSA Leadership Summits have been held so far. The 5th IBSA Summit was held in Pretoria on 18 October 2011.

India was the IBSA Chair under the theme “Democracy for Demography and Development” in 2021.

Brazil assumed on March 2, 2023, the rotating presidency of the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum - IBSA. Comprising three democratic, multiethnic and multicultural countries, the grouping completes 20 years in 2023. The Brazilian Presidency will seek to strengthen IBSA in its three pillars: political coordination, trilateral cooperation and cooperation with other developing countries, through the IBSA Fund.

Country Profiles India, Brazil, South Africa

IBSA Mechanisms

Cooperation in IBSA is on three fronts: first, as a forum for consultation and coordination on global and regional political issues, such as, the reform of the global institutions of political and economic governance, WTO/Doha Development Agenda, climate change, terrorism etc.; second, trilateral collaboration on concrete areas/projects, through fourteen working groups and six People-to-People Forums, for the common benefit of three countries; and third, assisting other developing countries by taking up projects in the latter through IBSA Fund. IBSA’s success demonstrates, most vividly, the desirability and feasibility of South-South cooperation beyond the conventional areas of exchange of experts and training.

IBSA SUMMITS DECLARATION

5th IBSA Summit Declaration, Tshwane, 2011

4th IBSA Summit Declaration, Brasilia, 2010

4th IBSA Summit Declaration on the situation in the Middle East

3rd IBSA Summit Declaration, New Delhi,2008

2nd IBSA Summit Declaration, Tshwane, 2007

1st IBSA Summit Declaration, Brasilia, 2006

Ministerial Meetings

Trilateral Ministerial Commission Meetings

Foreign Ministers

Areas of Cooperation

IBSA Fund

The IBSA facility for poverty and hunger alleviation (IBSA Fund) was established jointly by India, Brazil and South Africa in March 2004. More.

IBSA Fellowship Programme

The IBSA Visiting Fellowships Program was instituted, with the financial support of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in 2016. More.