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FAO on South-South & Triangular Cooperation

The new Framework marks a shift from ad hoc SSTC activities to a more programmatic, focused, results-based, systematic, quality-assured and service-driven integrated approach to operationalizing SSTC in FAO. The primary focus of the Strategic Framework is to scale up SSTC technical and financial partnerships to support agriculture and food systems transformation and development in the Global South and contribute to the achievement of the Four Betters.
FAO is recognized by its Member Countries and Development Partners as an innovative, inclusive and trusted partner that fully leverages proven development solutions, resources, knowledge and technologies from the Global South to accelerate agricultural and food system transformations, food security, poverty reduction and sustainable use of natural resources.
In this new vision, FAO places greater emphasis on SSTC to support the implementation of the 2030 Development Agenda and to contribute to the SDGs achievement with State and non-State actors as well as financing mechanisms. The major contribution of SSTC is expected under SDG 17 (innovative partnerships) and, to different extents to other SDGs FAO is working towards (i.e. SDG1, SDG 2, SDG 10, etc.).
The FAO work on SSTC for 2022-2025 will be channeled into strategic focus areas (SAFs) describing the areas where, in the next 4 years, FAO would like to deliver and or/contribute to producing results:
- SAF 1: Advocacy and Agenda Setting
- SAF 2: Brokering Knowledge
- SAF 3: Partnerships and Collaborations
- SAF 4: Evidence base and Adaptive Learning


South-South Cooperation Modalities
FAO is widening the range of SSC modalities of exchange. These include:
- short-term exchange of technical expertise – deployment of experts or technicians to a country for an average of two months;
- medium- to long-term exchange of technical expertise – deployment of experts or technicians to a country for one to two years;
- study tours and training – short educational exchange between groups of participants (e.g. professors, technicians, ministers) as well as access to training courses offered by FAO’s centers of excellence;
- policy dialogue – forums for policy exchange at the national, regional or global level;
- in-kind and technical solution exchange, crosscutting the above – such as the exchange of agricultural inputs, small machinery, farm equipment and/or improved varieties and species.
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FAO’S SSC&TrC to Achieve the SDGs: Fostering Partnerships among the Global South
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Inspiration, Inclusion and Innovation: FAO–China South–South Cooperation Programme (2009–2019)
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Systematization of the Sustainable School Feeding Model & Proposition of Recommendations as Way Forwards to the Government of Belize (FAO, 2020)
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South-South and Triangular Cooperation in FAO: Strengthening Partnerships to Achieve the SDGs (FAO)
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