The DCF Argentina High-level Symposium took place in Buenos Aires on 6-8 September 2017, as the first preparatory symposium for the 2018 Development Cooperation Forum and as a key milestone in the run up to BAPA+40.
Nearly forty years since the historic UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries of 1978 in Buenos Aires, South-South cooperation has become an effective modality for the exchange of capacity building, technology and know-how among developing countries. Both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda welcome the increased contribution of South-South cooperation to poverty eradication and sustainable development.
South-South cooperation, also in partnership with other stakeholders, has the potential to foster trade, strengthen bilateral and regional ties, as well as become an effective way of mobilizing resources.
South-South and triangular cooperation continue to expand and evolve. They are flourishing at different levels, involving a multiplicity of actors. The symposium will bring together policymakers and development experts representing the diversity of stakeholders to advance South-South and triangular cooperation in the SDG era.
Objectives
- Explore the challenges and opportunities faced by South-South and triangular cooperation, 40 years after the Buenos Aires Plan of Action.
- Identify distinctive elements of South-South and triangular cooperation that may contribute to the implementation of the SDGs, based on experience and best practices.
- Build the evidence base, in terms of distinctive approaches, contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals and to the overall picture on means of implementation.
- Advance multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing and mutual learning to get better results on the ground.
Presentations and statements
- Remarks by H.E. Silvia Espíndola, Undersecretary of International Cooperation, Republic of Ecuador (Chair, Group of 77)
- Opening statement by Mr. LIU Zhenmin, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UNDESA
- Opening statement by Ms. Alicia BARCENA, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Closing statement by H.E. Ambassador Marie CHATARDOVA, President of the Economic and Social Council
- Closing statement by Mr. LIU Zhenmin, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UNDESA
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