South-South Cooperation (SSC) involves the transfer of resources from one developing country to another to finance projects, programs, technical cooperation, and humanitarian assistance. It is based on the principles of solidarity and mutual cooperation between countries. SSC aims to foster self-reliance, promote collective self-reliance, strengthen capacities, and create new capabilities in developing countries through the sharing of experiences, skills, and technologies. While SSC faces challenges like a lack of centralized data collection, proponents argue it can help strengthen national ownership, support demand-driven exchanges, and ultimately contribute to development in the Global South.

1. SWATI GOEL
M.A-1 Sem-2
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PRESENTATION BY:-
SWATI GOEL
M.A-1 Sem-2
International trade
Topic:
South-South Cooperation

2. Contents:
Introduction of SSC.
Its principles.
Proposal for defining SSC.
Objectives of SSC.
Characteristics.
Practical challenges.
Impact of SSC.
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Introduction
 South-South Cooperation (SSC) has a long and
proud history as an important form of solidarity
between countries.
 For the international community to acknowledge
accurately its increasing role and importance,
there needs to be better and more
comprehensive information and data.
 It is recognised that SSC has considerable
advantages and better information will benefit
partner countries in seeking most cost effective
and appropriate funding.

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Principles underlying SSC
 The principles of solidarity and mutual
cooperation underlie SSC and as such it is a
broader and deeper concept that Northern donor
aid. It encompasses financial flows (eg loans
and grants) as well as the sharing of
experiences, technology and skills transfers,
preferential market access and trade-oriented
support.
 However for UN DCF to strengthen information
and data flows, the initial emphasis is to be
narrowed to focus on financial SSC and
triangular flows.

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Proposal for defining SSC
 The principle is that it represents a genuine
transfer of resources from the country offering
cooperation programmes into the economies of
partner countries.
 It is defined to include grants and concessional
loans (including export credits) provided by one
Southern country to another to finance projects,
programmes, technical cooperation, debt relief
and humanitarian assistance.

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Contd.
 Southern actors offering SSC are Southern
governments and their agencies and Southern
multilateral institutions.
 Southern actors receiving SSC are Southern
governments and their agencies, multilateral
development institutions (eg World Bank, UN),
regional development banks (eg AsDB, AfDB),
other multilateral institutions and CSOs.
 The concessionality of SSC loans is to be
designed to measure the opportunity cost of the
funds to the lender.

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Contd.
 Triangular cooperation is Northern donors,
multilateral institutions and Southern partners
providing cooperation to one Southern partner to
execute projects/programmes with the aim of
assisting a third Southern partner country.
 Since Northern donors and multilateral
institutions account for their triangular flows as
Northern donor aid including these flows as part
of SSC would result in double-counting.
However Northern donors are to be encouraged
to provide better reporting on their triangular
flows.

8. Objectives of SSC:
 Basic Objectives of SSC:
contribute to the wider objectives of
the development of the developing
countries and international
development cooperation (are
interdependent and mutually
supportive)

9. Contd.
 to foster national self-reliance of developing
countries
 to promote and strengthen collective self-
reliance among developing countries
 to strengthen the capacity of developing
countries( to identify and analyze the main
issues of their development)
 to strengthen existing technological capacities
in the developing countries
 to create new capacities and capabilities and to
improve the capacity of developing countries

10. Characteristics of SSC
 principal value added by South-South
Cooperation is its contribution to develop
and strengthen capacities between partners
in a horizontal relationship where both
parties benefit from sharing.
 SSC constitutes an ideal vehicle that helps
strengthen national ownership and
leadership
 the exchange of know-how, technologies
and experiences is demand-driven

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Practical challenges
 One of the main challenges is lack of a single government
ministry or agency responsible for the country’s SSC
programmes. So there is no overarching institutional
structure for recording and monitoring SSC. On the other
hand, a number of Southern countries have taken steps to
strengthen institutional and data collection processes.
 Proposal for the way forward:
 A senior Southern country official, knowledgeable of the
country’s cooperation programme, be nominated to facilitate
national data collection and its reporting to the DCF on a
voluntary basis,
 Support to be provided by the UN including through missions
and email/telephone.

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Impact of SSC
 It is proposed to conduct analysis to learn and
share good practices of SSC and triangular
cooperation, for example an independent study
to evaluate triangular cooperation and a
repository of good practices in triangular
cooperation to garner more information on the
practical issues.

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