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As an intergovernmental Organization in which the great majority of Member States are countries of the Global South, ICGEB implements South-South cooperation in all of its actions, promoting scientific cooperation, capacity building and technology transfer. The ICGEB offers a modern model for cooperative action, including knowledge exchange and peer learning for human capital development. It delivers biotech solutions aligned to real needs and operates with triangular partners, such as the Government of Italy, to provide expertise and funding.

In this moment of global crisis, the need for South-South and Triangular Scientific cooperation has never been greater. ICGEB has responded with efforts to directly provide rapid assistance to its constituency with diagnostics, surveillance and capacity enhancement for handling the COVID-19 crisis, bringing critical information and technologies to where they are most needed. Learn more about Resources, Tools and Know-how ICGEB offers to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 to its Member States.

ICGEB is expanding joint activities by promoting programs for brain drain reversal in the Global South, enhancing South-South cooperation and exchange, and using science and diplomacy to promote peace and security. Through partnerships, ICGEB can better fulfill its mandate by strengthening its ability to offer scientific capacity building to support sustainable development; offering biotech solutions tailored to the real needs of different countries in the Global South, which range from health to agriculture and clean energy, to generating knowledge sharing and outreach programs.

The ICGEB awards fellowships across its Member States worldwide, organizes scientific meetings and courses in the South, provides grants and early return career grants to encourage triangular mobility. It transfers technology to the South to develop local industry production for diagnostics, vaccines and biopharmaceutical products and processes that are adaptable and affordable.

The Organization is establishing Regional Research Centres (in China, Panama and Sri Lanka) to create regional hubs for science, technology and innovation in the South, promoting cross-border and interregional coordination and collaboration as well regionally-tailored research in Life Sciences to assist countries in building human and institutional capacity. It provides technical assistance in the development and implementation of biosafety regulatory systems and is a consolidated reference point for Parties that have ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, in particular the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, for the transboundary movement of GMOs. The ICGEB is instrumental in the establishment of national biosafety regulatory frameworks and offices in the Global South and the development of related administrative and technical procedures.

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