UN Day for South-South Cooperation Side-event: Launch of Good Practices in SSTC – Scaling Up Made-in-Africa Solutions, 14 September 2021

• When: 14 September 2021, 8:30AM-10:00AM (NY time) |12:30 pm – 14:00 pm (GMT)
• To download the publication, please click here.

Background

In collaboration with various development actors, African countries have been generating innovative and context-specific development solutions in order to respond to common challenges, including to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite restrictions in travel, the closure of borders, and the significant socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic on countries, South-South and triangular cooperation provide cost-effective and novel ways of sharing solutions to address these challenges.

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In 2019, The BAPA+40 Outcome Document acknowledged the importance of sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices, particularly homegrown development approaches, on SSC & TrC in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It invited all relevant stakeholders, State and non-State actors, to do so in order to intensify efforts towards the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions via South-South and triangular cooperation. This also involved building multi-stakeholder partnerships, including with the private sector.

On the occasion of the UN Day for South-South Cooperation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), presented the joint publication titled “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Scaling up Made-in-Africa Solutions”. This publication maps and codifies African innovative South-South development solutions that have been scaled up or have the potential to be scaled up in Africa and beyond, covering key SDGs related issues such as governance, climate change, disaster risk reduction, energy, agro-food, environment, and inclusiveness. It is expected to inspire governments, private sector and entrepreneurs, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and the general public to adopt, improve and share the Made in Africa and African tailored good practices in their SDG achievement journey.

Objectives

• To promote the Africa Made Solutions to target the SDGs in Africa and beyond.
• To promote peer to peer learning through the sharing of national African experiences of SSC/TrC practices and solutions in addressing development challenges.
• To generate and promote opportunities for enhancing regional and country-level South-South and Triangular Cooperation post BAPA+40 in Africa.
• To facilitate knowledge sharing and cooperation among partners of the global South from a state to state, but also a whole-of-society type of approach.

Agenda

1.Introduction by facilitator and overview of the Agenda

2. Opening Remarks