Development practitioners and experts from across the globe are to gather in Bogota, Colombia, this week for a three-day conference on South-South Cooperation that could shape south-south policy for years to come.
The High Level Meeting from the 24 – 26 March in Bogota will bring together hundreds of participants around the theme of capacity development in south-south cooperation. Attendees are expected to thrash out policy recommendations ahead of a 2011 High Level Forum on aid effectiveness in South Korea.
As part of the preparations to Bogota, south-south practitioners issued a call for case studies to provide real life examples of how south-south cooperation can work in practice.
Over 100 case studies from around the world have been submitted to the South-South Opportunity http://www.southsouth.info/ website. Based on those case studies, the Task Team on South-South Cooperation has produced a draft report, as an input to the Bogota event.
Participants at Bogota will also be asked to sign, on a voluntary basis, The Bogota Statement as an endorsement of their support for south-south cooperation and capacity development as laid out in the document.
Also in the run-up to Bogota, the Organisation of Economic Coordination and Development (OECD) has produced a brief on the European Commission’s on-going reform of technical cooperation and the related changes in capacity development support. This brief can be downloaded from the capacity4dev site, here.
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