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Triangular Co-operation in the Era of the 2030 Agenda is a publication by the Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) on Effective Triangular Co-operation. It was prepared by a team led by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, consisting of Nadine Piefer (lead, OECD), Jeets Hargovan (Strategic Alternatives, South Africa), and Rebecca McKimm (OECD), with the extensive support [...]

This How-to-guide aims at helping ILO officials in the field and at HQ to design South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) projects and/or to include SSTC elements in other development cooperation projects. Horizontal arrangements can generate development solutions through policies and processes that better fit partners’ needs. Promoting sustainable and decent work for all is central [...]

Changes in the geopolitical and economic balance of power have brought out the importance of the Global South in the development process and enabled new actors to shape the development agenda. Innovative responses to global challenges are coming from emerging powers of the South, who are in turn becoming strategic partners for other developing countries. [...]

ILO adopted the Programme and Budget (P&B) Proposal for 2018-19 which stipulated the integration of SSTC results as a support to achieve ILO’s strategic framework (including 10 Outcomes). SSTC was underscored as an effective tool to increase development cooperation and to enforce and expand external partnerships and strategic partnerships for the ILO’s development cooperation. In [...]