The United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation highlights the progress being made by the global South.
Despite ongoing challenges, developing countries have become critical actors in the global socioeconomic landscape. A majority have joined the middle-income club, and some have attained impressive economic growth, high savings and investment rates, and a larger share of trade in goods and services. The global South is also home to many high-quality enterprises, technological competencies and leading finance and banking institutions. The New Development Bank recently established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as the proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, hold considerable promise to complement existing sources of finance for development.
South-South cooperation can therefore play a key role in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is to be adopted by world leaders at a summit later this month at UN Headquarters. As we embark on efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to accelerate development momentum across the South, including by building resilience and mitigating risk. This will require attention to the needs of the most vulnerable by enhancing the productive capacities of Least Developed Countries and improving access to environmentally sound technologies, education, essential medicines and credit.
On this Day, let us recognize the great potential of South-South cooperation
to improve the well-being of the vast majority of the world’s people.
Ban Ki-moon
Forum : United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, September 12th.
United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation |
- Current.com – Turning Trash into Cash
- Global South-South Development Academy
- Global South-South Development Expo
- IBSA Trust Fund
- Kenya’s website on the High Level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation
- Online Handbook on South-South Cooperation
- Special Unit for South-South Cooperation
- South-South Global Assets and Technology Exchange System (SS-GATE)
- UNDP Housing and Employment Sunshine Project
- World Challenge
Additional Resources
- Global South-South Development Expo
- High Level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation
- United nations Office for South-South Cooperation
- Doha Declaration on Financing for Development
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Economic and Social Development
- Global issues on the UN Agenda - Development Cooperation
- Group of 77 at the United Nations
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- High-Level Event of the General Assembly on the Contributions of North-South, South-South, Triangular Cooperation, and ICT for Development to the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
- Development Cooperation Forum (ECOSOC)
- South-South Cooperation (DESA)
- Spirit of South-South Cooperation Can Inspire New Global Partnership, Secretary-General Says in Message to Forum Fund Side Event (19May 2014)
- New Commitment on South-South Cooperation Announced in Support Of Women’s, Children’s Health (25 February 2014)
- Partners in Population and Development (PPD)
United Nations System Partners
- Africa Rice Center (formerly West Africa Rice Development Association)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) South-South Global Health Exchange (SS-GHX)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- UNDP/WB/FAO/UNEP/UNFCC Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Knowledge Sharing
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Foundation (UNF)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) REDD Web Platform
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Networks for Prosperity
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Observatory for Renewable Energy
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- UN-Women
- World Bank South-South Cooperation Exchange Mechanism
- World Bank South-South Experience Exchange Facility
- Wolrd Bank Urbanization Knowledge Partnership
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Health Organization (WHO) ePORTUGUÊSe Network
Intergovernmental Partners
- China-Africa Business Council
- Development Gateway
- The Group of 20 (G20) South-South Opportunity Community of Practitioners (CoP)
- The Group of 20 (G20) Task Team on South-South Cooperation (TT-SSC)
- The Group of 77 (G-77)
- Global Knowledge Partnership
- Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP)
- OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
- Partners in Population and Development (PPD)
- Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange (SUAEE)
- South Centre
- TECHNONET Africa
- The Third World Network (TWN)
- Africa Rice Center (formerly West Africa Rice Development Association)
Additional Partners
- Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries
- Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
- Inter Press Service News Agency
- International Poverty Center
- Partners in South-South Cooperation (PSSC)
- South-South Information Gateway
- South-South Knowledge Exchange (TERI)
- Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
- Technology Exchange Lab (TEL)
- The Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO)
- TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world
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