GPI on Effective Triangular Cooperation

GPI 2021 Meeting and Marketplace - virtual, 2021
2021-09-14 13:30 - 15:00 UTC
In the past year, the regulatory measures imposed across the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic require flexibility and adaptability. The pandemic speeded the transition to the digitalisation era, and simultaneously exposed a digital gap and new forms of social inequality. Digitalisation provides a growing set of tools supporting governments and non-state actors in their response to the direct and indirect consequences of COVID-19. In this context, triangular partnerships may help partners to better identify development challenges and create innovative solutions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) on Effective Triangular Cooperation organised its 2021 Meeting on 14 and 15 September 2021. The two-day meeting aimed to celebrate the United Nations South-South Cooperation Day, launch the GPI brief Leveraging Triangular Partnerships to Respond to COVID-19 and Build Back Better from the Pandemic and foster networking and matchmaking among GPI members. Overall, the meeting brought together more than 120 participants from all regions of the world.
On 14 September, GPI members and the broader development co-operation community reflected on the findings of the brief. Co-authored by nine GPI members, the brief provides three main recommendations:

Ensure that good practices and solutions are replicated and scaled up in and beyond the context of COVID-19;
Incorporate triangular co-operation components, as sharing of knowledge and experience, into COVID-19 response programmes;
Promote triangular co-operation to leave no one behind.

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Access the report of the Webinar here.

On 15 September happened the GPI Marketplace to create an opportunity for interaction and matchmaking among GPI members and partners. The 2021 Marketplace was organised in four thematic groups:

Institutional and legal frameworks for mass digital use in countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)
Global capacity building on digital agriculture for sustainable agriculture and food systems transformations
National deployment of learning management systems
Digital transformation enabling effective development co-operation: Experience of the Knowledge Hub for South-South Cooperation

[GPI session] V Regional Conference: Perspectives on TrC in Latin America and the Caribbean - virtual, 2020
2020-10-08
The Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) hosted the V Regional Conference “Perspectives on Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean” on 7 and 8 October 2020, 100% online. Around 200 participants connected throughout the two days of the event, which encompassed plenary and breakout sessions. The GPI had great visibility during the event and hosted one of the breakout sessions.
Click here to read the report of the session.

[GPI Webinar] Strengthening Partnership and International Solidarity through Triangular Cooperation - virtual, 2020
2020-09-11
The Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) on Effective Triangular Co-operation organized the Webinar “Strengthening Partnership and International Solidarity through Triangular Cooperation: One Year after BAPA+40 and during the COVID-19 Times”, on 11 September 2020. The webinar brought together almost 100 participants from across the globe within the scope of the celebrations of the United Nations (UN) Day for South-South Cooperation. The objective of the webinar was to mutually learn and exchange views on the challenges, experience and opportunities of triangular partnerships for sustainable development, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
See the report of the event here.

[GPI Core Group meeting] Fifth International Meeting on Triangular Co-operation - Lisbon, 2019
2019-10-17 - 2019-10-18
The core group of the Global Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Cooperation met on the sidelines of the fifth International Meeting on Triangular Co-operation “Implementing BAPA+40: What is next for triangular co-operation?”. The event happened on 17-18 October in Lisbon and was jointly organised by the OECD and The Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. (Portugal).
During the meeting, the GPI organised the pilot exercise of the GPI Marketspace: Meeting point for triangular co-operation partners. It provided an open space for partners to present TrC projects and ideas, so as to gather feedback from participants, to identify additional partners or to learn from experiences from past projects in similar ideas.
Additionally, the GPI core group presented new ideas in its Action Plan 2.030, a three-year roadmap until 2022 for supporting the implementation of the BAPA+40 Outcome Document.
Access the summary of the event and the progress report of the GPI here.

[GPI Side Event] Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Co-operation (BAPA +40) - Buenos Aires, 2019
2019-03-20 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)
The GPI organised the side-event “Triangular Co-operation in the Era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The side event was co-organized by the core group members of the Global Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Cooperation (GPI): Canada, IsDB, Japan, Mexico, OECD, PIFCSS, and UNOSSC. It gathered over 100 representatives from international organizations, national cooperation agencies, civil society, and academia to discuss the relevance of enhancing the effectiveness of triangular cooperation to advance the 2030 Agenda.
See the summary of the event here.

[GPI Side Event] Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD) - New York, 2018
2018-11-28 - 2018-11-30 | New York
Side event of the Global Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Cooperation (GPI): Co-organized by Mexico and Canada with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Ibero-American Programme for the Strengthening of South-South Cooperation (PIFCSS), Islamic Development Bank, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).
The ent aimed at illustrating how triangular cooperation can be an effective means of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, highlighting the value-added of triangular co-operation by showing evidence from concrete partnerships and their results, and sharing experiences and propose a set of draft Voluntary Guidelines on Effective Triangular Cooperation in the lead up to BAPA +40.
See the report of the event here.

[GPI Side Event] Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD) - Antalya, 2017
2017-11-29
The first working group meeting of the Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) on effective triangular cooperation brought together the core group members (Mexico, Canada, Japan, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)) as well as representatives from governments and international organisations that are members of the initiative or interested in joining the GPI. The aim of the side event was to discuss the next steps of the GPI in the lead-up to the Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation in Buenos Aires (BAPA+40 Conference) in March 2019. The GPI has created three workstreams (advocacy, analytical, and operational) to analyze, and systematize experiences and best practices; elaborate a set of voluntary principles; and consolidate frameworks of triangular cooperation that ensure country-led ownership, as well as inclusive partnerships for sustainable development.
See the summary of the event here.
