by Raphael | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog
By Xiaojun Grace Wang, Deputy Director, UNOSSC Many would trace the origin of South-South cooperation (SSC) to the landmark Asian-African Conference of Bandung in 1955, where developing nations laid the fundamental principles for cooperation. When visualizing that...
by Raphael | Feb 16, 2021 | Publications
The second volume of South-South Network for Public Service Innovation (SSN4PSI) Matchmaker report presents 24 cases that have been made available and adapted by the various members of the organization between 2019 and 2020. In addition to the case studies of the...
by Raphael | Feb 11, 2021 | Cities Clusters - COVID-19, Cities Project, News
11 February, New York – 200,000 disposable masks donated by the Finance Center for South-South Cooperation (FCSSC) to Beirut City, Lebanon, with the coordination and facilitation efforts of the UNOSSC Cities Project team and UNDP Lebanon’s local coordination and...
by Raphael | Feb 2, 2021 | DRR Knowledge Products, IsDB Featured Publications POM, Publications
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown have adversely affected the global economic activities. Given the global impact of the crisis, H.E. Dr. Bandar Hajjar, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, constituted a Working Group to study the impact...
by Raphael | Jan 19, 2021 | Financing Mechanisms
Background As the world suffers the economic slowdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, trade, investment, growth, and employment are all affected, and the crisis will have an impact on the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Women Enterprise...