South-South Today
UNOSSC’s blog features project and program updates from Office staff, and engages partners in a collaborative environment to highlight best practices and relevant news from developing countries. Stay tuned for our monthly blog posts and follow us on social media.
06/08/2020
04/08/2020
New York, 3 August 2020 The call for solidarity among countries of the South has found a magnified echo in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. As developing countries across the world struggle to prevent their achievements in public health, […]
21/07/2020
18 July 2020 – UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) providing a framework for cooperation to facilitate and strengthen their joint work in mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation to support […]
21/07/2020
The government of Palau and UNOPS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to improve the quality, availability and access to primary healthcare services through resilient infrastructure. A $1.5 million grant from the India-UN Development Partnership Fund (India-UN Fund) […]
10/07/2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 as a global health emergency and the resulting socio-economic crisis is testing South-South cooperation and international development cooperation and a series of questions have followed. What are the new characteristics of South-South cooperation in the post […]
10/07/2020
The United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, the African Peer Review Mechanism, the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the United Nations and the African Union, co-organized a webinar on Building Resilient Societies post-COVID-19 in the Global South, held during the 2020 High Level […]
10/07/2020
When: Monday, 13 July, 8–9 a.m. New York time To join this webinar, please click here. Background The outcome document (A/RES/73/291) of the second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation held in Buenos Aires in March 2019 (BAPA+40) is a forward-looking […]
09/07/2020
The India-UN Development Partnership Fund, managed by UNOSSC, is working rapidly to support projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Projects are supplying medical equipment, and will be building healthcare capacities, mitigating socio-economic impact and catalyzing transformative recovery. The India-UN Development Partnership […]
09/07/2020
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment now has five ventilators to better equip the specially designed infectious disease and isolation centre, which was developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one part of an India-UN Partnership […]
19/06/2020
Young people are particularly well-endowed to find new solutions to accelerate action toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals – Jorge Chediek, UNOSSC Director and the Envoy of the Secretary-General on South-South Cooperation The United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) […]
04/06/2020
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) jointly organised a consultation on Sustainable Human Development Pathways with 15 members of the South-South Global Thinkers initiative. Their diverse contributions, which built on a […]