Bangkok--21 Oct--UNISBKK
Event is first in series in run-up to Development Cooperation Forum in 2010
Bangkok (UN/ESCAP Information Services) — Government officials and policymakers, civil society experts, and representatives of donor agencies from Asia and the Pacific will this week attend a workshop on triangular and South-South cooperation in the region — the first in a series of global events leading up to a major United Nations development conference.
The workshop, to be held on 21-22 October at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok, is organized by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation. ESCAP’s Deputy Executive Secretary Shigeru Mochida will deliver opening remarks at the workshop.
The event is the first of a series that DESA is holding in the run-up to the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) of the Economic and Social Council, to be held in 2010.
Mandated to enhance the implementation of the internationally agreed development goals and promote dialogue to find effective ways to support it, the DCF was launched in Geneva in July 2007 and the first biennial forum took place in New York this year. The DCF is expected to exert a positive influence on the international development cooperation system by bringing together all the relevant actors to engage in a dialogue on key policy issues affecting the quality and impact of development cooperation.
The Asia-Pacific workshop will discuss issues relating to effectiveness and coherence — and will provide policy guidance and recommendations on how to improve international development cooperation, centred on South-South and triangular cooperation, with the latter being South-South cooperation that is supported financially by donor countries or by international organizations. It will be organized around four segments with presentations, country-based case studies and discussions, addressing, among others, the following questions:
Can lessons learnt in Asia and the Pacific on triangular development cooperation apply to other regions?
How to support the development of voluntary systems in monitoring and evaluation?
How to improve data collection on South-South and triangular development cooperation?
What should be the role of the United Nations system?
The Bangkok Programme can be downloaded from:
http:// www.unescap.org/pdd/calendar/DCF/DCF.asp .
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