UN South-South Stakeholders' and High-Level Development Cooperation Directors-General Meeting

UN South-South Stakeholders' and High-Level Development Cooperation Directors-General Meeting (22 November 2012)

The UN South-South Stakeholders' and High-Level Development Cooperation Directors-General Meeting provided a forum for United Nations development practitioners to share best practices and lessons learned in their support of South-South and Triangular cooperation. It also created an effective inter-agency network to improve the mainstreaming of South-South and Triangular cooperation across the United Nations system and among regional and international partners.

Building on the great success of similar meetings during previous GSSD Expos, the meeting was designed to provide a unique space for Directors-General of cooperation agencies (national and international) to share experiences, exchange best practices and build new partnerships with the common goal of helping to scale up the development impact of such cooperation.

Participants discussed best practices in South-South and Triangular cooperation regarding critical development issues such as climate change and environment, social protection and decent work; food security and global health. The discussions focused on strengthening the policy strategy and the implementation of South-South and Triangular cooperation – in particular in the respective role of middle-income countries and regional organizations.

During the session, new proposals to further knowledge management, knowledge-sharing, peer learning and scaling up were pushed forward, including the expected roles of UNDP and other United Nations organizations in facilitating South-South and triangular cooperation