ministerio de relaciones exteriores república de colombia

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

República de Colombia

High Level Event on South – South Cooperation and Capacity Development

Contributions to a more effective cooperation architecture

Colombia 2010



Main issues:Context, objective and scope of the

meeting

Meeting details

Preliminar Agenda and Event Format Steering Committee

Technical Secretariat

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1. Context, objective and scope of the meeting



Context↘ South – South Cooperation (SSC) and Capacity Development (CD) are valuable and necessary inputs for enhancing cooperation effectiveness

↘ On the basis of the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action (AAA), the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP – EFF) endorsed a Task Team on SSC

↘ The Capacity Development Alliance (CD Alliance) will identify leaders to promote better coordination among themselves and with donors



Objective↘ Contribute to make more visible the interests, needs expectations as well as the potential of developing countries, in the global development architecture

↘ Allow partner countries, to share their experiences in SSC and CD to enrich the TT-SSC and CD Alliance and other relevant initiatives

↘ Consolidate recommendations to provide valuable inputs for the preparation of the Korea HLF - IV



Scope↘ Disseminate and discuss ongoing analytical work on SSC and CD, in the context of aid effectiveness

↘ Exchange and discuss country – level experiences in SSC and CD, as well as their relevance for the implementation of Paris Declaration principles and AAA commitments

↘ Identify and facilitate the synergies between SSC and CD

↘ Agree on next steps to promote SSC and CD, in preparation of the Korea HLF - IV



2. Meeting details



Meeting Details

City : Bogotá Venue : The Bogotá Chamber of Commerce

Date : March 24th – 26th



3. Preliminar Agenda and Event Format



Tentative programme

Closing session

Moderated plenary discussion

Inauguration and opening

Round tables

Ministerial/Heads of delegation segment

Accra HLF – Roundtable 9

Regional priorities

Pertinence of PD principles for the practice of SSC

HLM Chairs will propose recommendations

towards the 2011 HLF

Minister will agree on proposed

recommendation



Ministers

Objective: Support to both SSC and CD ensuring a consistent learning and global policy - making process from Accra 2008 via Bogotá 2010 to Seoul 2011

↘ Present a highly consensus recommendations considering technical and political implications of the PD and AAA

↘ Guarantee that concrete action can be taken in relatively short term (up to HLF 2011)

HOW...?



4. Steering Committee



Structure

KoreaHost 2011 HLM

MozambiqueVietnamThailand

PerúMéxico

Spain

World BankADBIDB

UNDP

CAD / OECD

↘ The steering committee will achieve a maximum balance between all actors involved directly in SSC and CD

Andean Community

NEPADACDF



Responsabilities↘ Support and supervise the thematic preparation of the HLE SSC/CD↘ Supervise the preparatory activities to the Knowledge Fair and the side events↘ Prepare, share and consolidate the ministerial recommendations of the HLE regarding SSC and CD↘Encourage a strong involvement and a consistent leadership of Southern countries and active participation of development partners and multilateral organizations in the preparations, celebrations and follow - up



CalendarDate Venue Themes

- September 15 Washington, TT-SSC meeting - Defining responsibilities and roles

- Defining members

- Revising list of participants

- Venue and draft agenda

- Knowledge fair proposal

- September 28 México, Outreach, OCDE - Circulating draft agenda

- Draft Knowledge fair proposal

- November VC meeting

- Circulating invitations

- Launching knowledge fair process

- December 4 Paris, WP meeting - Discussing draft Ministerial

recommendations

- Presenting knowledge fair progress

- Feb 2010 (tbd) - Discussing draft ministerial

recommendations



5. Technical Secretariat



Objective↘ Facilitate the coordination of preparatory work in three different issues

Conceptual work

Administrative and logistic

Knowledge fair

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6. Knowledge Fair



Objectives and ScopeDiscovering and disseminating evidence of effective practices of SSC and CD.

Documenting good practices and accelerating the exchange and learning among institutions, people and communities that have been part of these processes.

Offering empirical evidence that could enrich the analysis and evaluation process that is performed under the TT SSC and platforms such as the Impact Alliance and LenCD.

Enriching the political and technical dialogue developed under the High Level Event in March 2010.

Generating social capital and cohesion among institutions and practitioners to catalyze further regional SSC learning and exchange heading towards Seoul.



Process

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Documents

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