UN Woman joins a 3 day conference at UNESCAP to address global crisis through South-south cooperation.
“South-south cooperation is a framework for collaboration among countries of the global south in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technical spheres. It includes sharing of knowledge on what works, innovation and skills, expertise and resources among two or more developing countries to meet development goals. It’s a response to the traditional north-to-south aid or the prescriptive development model that has been vastly critiqued in the recent years. Developing countries have a lot to offer, in terms of good practices, solutions and catalytic innovations that are contextually more relevant, politically sensitive and sustainable to other developing countries, than a solution that is imported from a developed country with very different context and resources.” – UN Woman
“South-South and triangular cooperation are critical for developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate disruption, address the global health crisis, including COVID-19 recovery, and achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” underscored Secretary-General António Guterres.
