Solution Forums
Solution Forums (20-21 November 2012)
The Global South-South Development Expo 2012 Solution Forums provided a venue for interactive discussions and presentations of successful Southern development solutions. Each Solution Forum featured five to six presentations of solutions by theme. The featured development solutions included Southern-grown solutions, South-South partnership solutions, North-South-South triangular partnership solutions, and public-private partnerships that have the potential to be scaled-up. Each solution presented showed its direct and concrete contribution to one or more MDGs.
All Southern development solutions (SDSs) showcased addressed the following topics: why a specific solution worked in a given environment; the kinds of benefits that it generated and whether those benefits were equitably shared; what made it sustainable; whether the same SDS has been adapted to a different country context and, if so, what lessons were learned from that experience; what are the minimal requirements for another country to implement the SDS; the kind of technical support that the SDS-originating country might provide; and, last but not least, how a traditional donor, multilateral organization, or private-sector or civil society organization could support mutual learning and scaling up.
The GSSD Expo 2012 featured six Solution Exchange Forums on the following themes:
Solution Forum 3
Energy and Climate Change: Focus on Biodiversity, Forestry and Land Degradation (UNEP, World Bank, UNESCO)
Solution Forum 4
Energy and Climate Change: Agriculture and Food Security (FAO, Worls Bank, IFAD)
