Background
The Global South-South Development Center Project (GSSDC) was jointly initiated by United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE).
During its ten-year journey, the China SSDC Project has achieved encouraging results in different areas, such as, integrating South-South cooperation resources, strengthening public-private partnerships and promoting economic and technical cooperation between China and other developing countries. According to the Statement of Intent signed between the Ministry of Commerce of China and UNOSSC, the project has been upgraded as Global SSDC since June 2019.
The Global SSDC project will build on the achievements of the China SSDC project and reprofile itself as a global network of centres of excellence for South-South cooperation in advancing SDGs and aims to engage southern centers of excellences outside China, and build sub-centers of excellence in line with regional priorities in order to become a globally-focused platform to facilitate and implement South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC)