Task Team on South-South Co-operation

The Task Team on South-South Cooperation's (TT-SSC) main objective leading up to the Fourth High Level Forum is to deliver evidence-based policy recommendations. Mutual learning between southern practictioners and north-south practitioners will be encourage with the aim of identifying effective practices.

The TT-SSC derives its mandate from three main areas under the Accra Agenda for Action:

• adapting aid effectiveness principles to SSC practices
• enriching aid effectiveness from SSC experiences
• identifying complementarities between North-South and South-South Cooperation

Future work

In 2010-2011, areas of focus will be:

• deepening analytical work with case studies and case stories
• building and linking up with communities of practice
• policy advocacy and outreach

The main deliverables for HLF 4 are:

• policy recommendations to inform the HLF-4 outcome document, drawn from the analytical work and on-line community of practice (as below)
• good practice note that summarises the findings of analytical work, comprised of approximately 15 case studies and additional case stories which are shared and validated through an on-line platform of southern practitioners 

Recent work

The TT-SSC has produced intermediate deliverables by the Bogotá High Level Event on South-South Co-operation and Capacity Development in March 2010 in the form of:

• Bogotá Statement: Towards Inclusive and Effective Development Partnerships. An outcome document from Bogotá High Level Event, a commitment to deepen understanding on South-South Co-operation through mutual learning. English (pdf 312kB), français (pdf 375kB), español (pdf 328 kB)
• A synthesis of the main findings from 110 case stories on experience with South-South Co-operation, identifying how aid effectiveness principles adapt, enrich and complement aid effectiveness principles and north-south co-operation. English part one   (pdf 2.9MB); English part two (pdf 2.9MB); Spanish part one (pdf 5.1MB); Spanish part two pdf 5.1MB)
• Catalogue of 110 Cases on South-South Cooperation and Aid Effectiveness. A collection of case stories from all regions submitted by practitioners is available at www.southsouthcases.info.

Additional resources: Links and documents

• TT‐SSC chairs Indonesia and Colombia welcome the G20 mandate to recommend on knowledge sharing (pdf, 89.6 kB), Press Release at the G20 Summit in Seoul, Korea, 11-12 November 2010
• Scaling Up South-South Knowledge Sharing: A G20 mandate for TT-SSC and UNDP (pdf, 1.9 MB), TT-SSC mandate, G20 Summit in Seoul, Korea, 11-12 November 2010
• Task Team on South-South Cooperation: At a Glance English (pdf, 333.6 kB) español (pdf, 108.3 kB)
• Task Team on South-South Co-operation Workplan (2010-11) (pdf, 217 kB)
  Methodology for sharing case stories (pdfs): English (312kb) français (1.5mb) español (262kb)
• Template for sharing case stories (Word files): English (327kb) français(327kb) español (327kb)