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Saturday, January 3, 2009

MESSAGE: UN DAY FOR SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION 2008

Today is 19 December 2008. We send our good wishes to the the UNDP for promoting, coordinating and supporting South-South and triangular cooperation on a Global and United Nations system-wide basis. It aims to find a Policy Dialogue And Development.
This focus area offers a platform to support policy development and dialogue, and follow-up to major intergovernmental conferences, with a particular emphasis on mainstreaming South-South cooperation as a driver of development effectiveness.

Evolution: The evolution of Policy Making is the Key Milestones. The concept of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) has evolved since its definition in the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, in 1975. The outcomes of the High Level Committee (HLC) meetings since 1980 have guided the focus of our work. In the timeline below, you can browse through major resolutions and references of the history of policy making for South-South Cooperation.

In 2001 the following five main objectives were focused: 1) Building stronger South institutions at the global level.2) Bridging the knowledge and information gap.3) Building broad-based partnerships.4) Mobilizing global support for South-South cooperation.
5) Bridging knowledge and information gap.

Greater collaboration and coordination between United Nations Agencies Focal points was decided in an effort to promote South-South cooperation. It decided to systematize the documentation and dissemination of successful practices of South-South cooperation, strengthening information systems and databases of the United Nations system. It gave report of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation Meeting Minutes UN Inter-Agency Meeting.

Thank you all.

God bless those who cooperate themselves.


Dr Robert Renatus Sanabam
President, ifop

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