ABSTRACT
Task sharing between organisations has become a necessary practice, even though no universal pattern for this type of cooperation has emerged. The chapter relates to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF's) characteristics in terms of interorganisational cooperation. According to the former French minister for cooperation and French language, Pierre-Andre Wiltser, it fills a role as a 'catalyst for other international organisations with greater funding'. The OIF embodies neither a top-down institution nor a subcontractor that benefits from the full delegation of duties, both diplomatic and strategic, in event of internal conflict within one of its member states. The nature of its involvement in task sharing lies in diversified support in order to improve the operational and institutional resources of its member states in relation to peace. It is a partnership model that gets over the pragmatism and even the narratives of authorisation that govern several examples of interorganisational cooperation, notably that between the UN and the EU in Africa.
