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Gender Equality and Sustainable Development in the Mountain Areas of Asia (UNEP)
Exploring the Role of Gender Equality in Addressing Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Restoration and Food Security This joint publication between United Nations Environment Programme-International Ecosystem Management Partnership (UNEP-IEMP) and…
Webinar Report: The Role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Addressing the Triple Burden of Malnutrition in Children and its Potential Contribution to Achieving National SDG 2 Targets
According to the global nutrition report 2020 published by UNICEF, almost a quarter of all children under 5 years of age are stunted. At the same time, overweight and obesity…
South-South Cooperation in Advancing Sustainable Development & Achieving the Transformative Recovery of the LDCs (UN-OHRLLS, 2022)
International relations have become more multipolar over the past decades, as seen in the increasing political and economic prominence of countries such as India and China, divergences between large developed…
South-South Cooperation and the Gender Equality Factor in the Emerging Multilateralism
SESRIC, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), published a thematic paper on “South-South Cooperation and the Gender Equality Factor in the Emerging Multilateralism”. The paper…
Lessons and Perspectives from Supporting South-South Cooperation in Mexico (UNDP Mexico, 2022)
Since 2013, UNDP Mexico, as a sustainable development partner and South South Cooperation (SSC) facilitator, has accompanied the institutional strengthening of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) through…
Introduction to the Project for Strengthening the ASEAN Regional Capacity on Disaster Health Management (ARCH Project)
Background: Southeast Asia is the second biggest region in the world in terms of the total number of natural disasters since 1900. Therefore, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)…
South-South Cooperation for Upscaling Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation (UNEP-GEF, 2022)
This Good Practice Brief analyzes a Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) project by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The project is recognized as…
Global and Regional Good Practices in SSTC: Promoting SSTC Peer-learning, Resilience and Solidarity in the World of Work in Times of COVID-19 (ILO, 2022)
The International Labour Organization (ILO), through its partnership’s department has launched 23 South-South and Triangular Cooperation projects across the five regions and the ITC-Turin office for the 2020-2021 biennium. The…
Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goal on Good Health and Well-being
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages is not only a fundamental right and a crucial development goal, but it is also front and center of…
FAO South-South and Triangular Cooperation Guidelines for Action (FAO, 2022)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyse agricultural development, food security, rural development,…
Evaluating SSC in six Latin American and Caribbean Countries: Shared Challenges for Implementation of the 2030 Agenda (ECLAC, November 2021)
In an increasingly uncertain world, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a point of reference and a road map, and South-South and triangular cooperation have become ever more important…
Regional Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and “Building Back Better” (ADB, 2022)
This report explores how regional cooperation and integration (RCI) can be enhanced in Asia and the Pacific to help the region build back resiliently and sustainably from the coronavirus disease…
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the Pacific: Network Analysis and Mapping of Institutions Supporting Entrepreneurship
According to the Duke University Centre for International Development, entrepreneurship is one of the most effective drivers of economic growth and development, spurring innovation, creating jobs, driving investment, and lifting…
Studies on Financial Resource Sustainability and Diversification for Local Government Financing Institutions in Africa
RIAFCO, an innovative network of LGFIs from across Africa, was created in 2014 with precisely this aim in mind. The network, which currently has seven members, seeks to foster peer-to-peer…
Global Compendium of Practices on Local Economic and Financial Recovery
The UN Regional Economic Commissions—United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), United Nations…
Advancing South-South Cooperation: India’s Development Partnerships with Pacific Island Countries
Given India’s increasing and active engagement in the Pacific Islands region, the Asia Foundation collaborated with Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) to undertake exploratory research to improve…
Disasters & Inequality in a Protracted Crisis: Towards Universal, Comprehensive, Resilient and Sustainable Social Protection Systems in Latin America & the Caribbean (ECLAC, October 2021)
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented impact in Latin America and the Caribbean. What started as a public health crisis has become the worst economic and social…
Inspiration, Inclusion and Innovation: FAO–China South–South Cooperation Programme (2009–2019)
In 2009, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and China established a close collaboration through the FAO–China South-South Cooperation Programme, supported by a trust fund of…
Systematization of the Sustainable School Feeding Model & Proposition of Recommendations as Way Forwards to the Government of Belize (FAO, 2020)
Systematization of the Sustainable School Feeding Model and Proposition of Recommendations as Way Forwards to the Government of Belize “Mesoamerica Hunger-Free AMEXCID-FAO” in Belize “Mesoamerica Hunger-Free AMEXCID-FAO” is a South-South…
South-South and Triangular Cooperation in FAO: Strengthening Partnerships to Achieve the SDGs (FAO)
South-South cooperation (SSC) is an integral part of international cooperation for development. Grounded on its unique principles and flexible approaches, SSC, as a complement to NorthSouth cooperation, provides developing countries…
Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Scaling up Made-in-Africa Solutions
The United Nations Office of South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) produces a series of good practices publications that highlight Southern good practices presented by the Member States, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations,…
APRM Working Paper: South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Face of COVID-19: A Quest for Resilience in Africa
Forced to adjust its relatively upbeat economic forecast issued earlier in 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) declared that the world would enter a recession due to COVID-19. Despite lockdowns,…
Sharing Best Practices: Addressing Reproductive Health, Population and Development Challenges (PPD, 2020)
'Sharing Best Practices: Addressing RH, Population and Development Challenges' contains eleven best practices documented from Partners in Population and Development (PPD) member countries, geared towards resolving issues related to reproductive…
Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development in SIDS
The United Nations Office of South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) produces a series of good practices publications that highlight Southern good practices presented by the Member States, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations,…
Directory of Institutions and Experts for Science, Technology and Innovation in Asia (UNOSSC, 2021)
Developed under UNOSSC's Facility/Programme for Capacity Development for Poverty Reduction through South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Science and Technology (RoK-UNOSSC Facility) – Phase 2, the Directory of Institutions and Experts…
IsDB / South Centre: Policy Paper on National Strategies for South-South and Triangular Cooperation
While many developing countries do not have explicit South-South and triangular cooperation strategies, the state of play shows that its elements can be found in various policies, institutional guidance and…
Report on the 2021 Inter-regional Dialogue and Stocktaking for Advancing SSTC in the Arab States, Europe and the CIS
"South-South Cooperation, whether in times of the pandemic or not, is an effective tool to mobilise global solidarity, and drive progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.” From 6-8 April…
Harnessing Rapid Technological Change for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Although technological change is ultimately essential for economic growth and sustainable development, it can initially widen inequalities. Recent technological advances could bring significant benefits that touch on all the Sustainable…
South-South Ideas: South-South Cooperation and Financial Technology in a Globally-inclusive Economic Architecture
By Dr. Nir Kshetri This paper examines how recent advances in computing and telecommunications technologies are promoting financial inclusion in the Global South by dramatically transforming the way the financial…
South-South Ideas: Trade Integration and South-South Cooperation: How Digitalization Matters in Africa
By Professor Myriam Ramzy & Professor Chahir Zaki Digitalization refers to the transition from an industrial age characterized by analogue technologies to a new era in which commerce, innovation, knowledge…
South-South Ideas: South-South Cooperation Finance for Mobilization of the Private Sector to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
By Bineswaree Bolaky The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a development priority in the global South, where most of the scope for reducing poverty and inequality and…
Potential for Green Banks & National Climate Change Funds in Africa – Scoping Report (AfDB & CIF, March 2021)
The African Development Bank and the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) have joined forces to produce a study of the role of green banks and national climate change funds in mobilizing finance to support…
Gender Diversity and Inclusion for a Fair Business Environment: An ASEAN Narrative
Business integrity goes well beyond anti-corruption compliance, and touches upon diversity, inclusion and gender equality. Phenomena like discrimination, gender pay gap, exclusion from business opportunities, bullying, and sexual and other…
Visibility Report: Virtual Counter Terrorism Week (6-10 July 2020)
The Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week organized by UNOCT, brought together the Member States, United Nations entities, civil society representatives, international and regional organizations, thought leaders, the private sector and other key…
Stories of Hope and Smiles: How IsDB Group is Supporting Communities Across the Globe (IsDB, 2020)
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has recorded, since its establishment, major successes in every sector of development, starting with education then agriculture, energy and infrastructure. IsDB has actively contributed to…
IsDB: Developing National Ecosystems for South-South and Triangular Cooperation to Achieve Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), based on its experiences in both field and analytical work in SSTrC and through in-depth discussions and exploration, together with its member countries, has identified…
Sharing Innovative Experiences: Experiences in Addressing Population and Reproductive Health Challenges (2011)
Recognizing the potential usefulness of such successful experiences to other countries in similar situations, PPD, with the financial support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Packard Foundation,…
Atoms for Peace and Development: How the IAEA supports the Sustainable Development Goals
The IAEA makes peaceful nuclear technology available to its Member States in many fields including energy, human health, food production, water management and environmental protection — all important areas recognized…
Assessment Framework for National Ecosystem for South-South and Triangular Cooperation (IsDB, 2020)
As highlighted in the BAPA+40 Outcome Document, the increasing complexity and sophistication, as well as the substantial scale of SSTrC, call for more effective institutional arrangements. To contribute to the…
Rural Development and Decent Work: Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation (ILO, 2020)
The ILO and the International Training Centre (ITC-ILO) have developed a series of training programmes for rural and local development policy makers and practitioners based on SouthSouth and Triangular Cooperation…
Country Experiences in South-South and Triangular Cooperation Enabled by the United Nations Rome-based Agencies
South-South & Triangular Cooperation is critical to access and mobilize the expertise, technologies and financial resources that already exist in developing countries. In order to reach the remaining 821 million…
Country Experiences in South-South and Triangular Cooperation Enabled by the United Nations Rome-based Agencies
The successful Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (or BAPA+40), which took place in March this year in Buenos Aires, confirmed the great contribution that South-South and Triangular…
Global Tourism Sector should Continue Fight Against Plastic Pollution during and after COVID-19 – New UN recommendations:
Restarting tourism responsibly requires that future operations be guided by a science-based approach in order to support governments, business, and local communities to understand the trade-offs of decision-making processes that…
An Assessment of Mainstreaming Climate Change Concerns into Institutions and Policies for Disaster Risk Reduction in ASEAN
Countries in Southeast Asia are highly vulnerable to climate change as is evident from the rise in disaster events. The member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)…
South-South Cooperation at the time of COVID-19: Building Solidarity Among Developing Countries (UNCTAD, 2020)
This Trade and Development Report Update by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) discusses how developing countries can build solidarity to weather the interconnected economic and public health…
Research Article: Mesenchymal Stem Cells Offer a Drug-tolerant and Immune-Privileged Niche to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs, while being highly potent in vitro, require prolonged treatment to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infections in vivo. This research article reports here that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)…
Research Article: Viral Priming of Cell Intrinsic Innate Antiviral Signaling by the Unfolded Protein Response
The innate response to a pathogen is critical in determining the outcome of the infection. However, the interplay of different cellular responses that are activated following viral infection and their…
Interim Guidance Note: Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food & Nutrition of Schoolchildren
This joint guidance note from the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations’ Children Fund (UNICEF) intends to provide…
COVID-19 and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing an unprecedented crisis, hitting hard on all the constitutive elements of human development: income, education and health. Not counting many other indirect effects, including increased…
Women as Environmental Stewards: The Experience of the Small Grants Programme
In this publication, the GEF Small Grants Programme, implemented by UNDP, features women as environmental stewards in case studies about biodiversity conservation, climate change, land degradation, international waters and chemicals…
Gender, Climate Change and Community Based Adaptation
Gender, Climate Change, and Community Based Adaptation: A Guidebook For Designing And Implementing Gender-Sensitive Community-Based Adaptation Programmes And Projects: The Gender, Climate Change and Community Based Adaptation Guidebook presents a…
South-South Cooperation, Community Innovation Exchange Platform
This publication illustrates how SGP leverages South-South and triangular cooperation to tackle local challenges through peer-to-peer knowledge exchanges across different sustainable development issues and geographies. It features ten case studies…
City-to-City Partnerships and South-South and Triangular Cooperation on Sustainable Urban Development
UNOSSC in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) recently launched a joint report “City-to-City Partnerships and South-South and Triangular Cooperation on Sustainable Urban Development” that focuses…
Fostering Sustainable Development through Chinese Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zones along the Belt & Road
Since the late 1990s, China has been establishing economic zones overseas to share its industrialisation experience and facilitate economic and trade cooperation with other countries. Today these Chinese Overseas Economic…
Social Stock Exchange for Social Enterprises and Social Incubators: An Exploratory Study for India
With the objective of experimentations for innovative solutions and technologies to improve delivery, method and products for social sector interventions, social incubators have come up in a big way in…
Adjusting to Rising Costs in Chinese Light Manufacturing: What Opportunities for Developing Countries?” by ODI and INSE
Chinese light manufacturing has undergone a significant transformation in recent decades. As China progresses towards high-income status, real wage growth in the sector has accelerated by 11% per year (2014-2016).…
The South-South Matchmaker: South-South Network for Public Service Innovation, 2017-2018 Best Practices
The SSN4PSI is a collaborative platform where governments, private sector organizations, experts and academics exchange knowledge, experience and expertise on public sector innovation. The network utilizes South-South and triangular cooperation…
Technologies for Climate-Resilient Smallholder Agriculture: Sharing practices from Brazil with Africa
Brazil and Africa share similar environmental, climate and social conditions, and similar development challenges. This creates interesting opportunities for South-South collaboration through technology transfer in several areas, including agriculture, climate…
South-South Ideas: South-South Cooperation – A Theoretical and Institutional Framework
This research study proposes Development Compact as a theoretical and operational construct for SSC. Development Compact is visualised as providing an analytical structure to SSC philosophy of development cooperation that…
South-South Ideas: Sustainable Rubber Value Chain Development: Analyzing Myanmar’s Opportunities and Challenges for Green Transformation for South-South Cooperation
Myanmar’s rubber sector is at a critical juncture. Rubber production in the country is projected to increase in the coming years while international market demands suggest a continuing downward price…
South-South Ideas: South-South Cooperation Coherence in a Complex Assistance Framework for Development – the Case of Nigeria
Due to the lack of a systematic framework to account for and compare SSC experiences and interventions, this study attempts to address this key shortcoming by proposing a theoretical framework…
South-South Ideas: Renewable Energy in the Middle East and North Africa Region – Potential and Limits
Over the last several years, there has been a commitment to spur unprecedented deployment of renewables across Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. According to the last International Renewable…
South-South Ideas: How Coherent Are Trade and Investment Policies of the Southern Finance Providers? A Case Study on Indo-Bangladesh Lines of Credit
This study uses the Indo-Bangla lines of credit (LoC) as a test case to determine the extent to which the projects undertaken under LoCs are aligned with Bangladesh’s national policy.…
