Facilitating and promoting the exchange of knowledge and best practices for sustainable development
The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean proposes a Multilateral South-South Cooperation (CSS) platform. This platform consolidates our mandate's proposals by facilitating and supporting the transfer of knowledge, exchange of experiences, and peer learning. It aims to boost local and national development programs in line with the Millennium Development Goals and accelerate progress on the Cairo +20 agenda.
The multilateral platform offers public administrations and local counterparts a constant source of solutions. It provides stakeholders with access to a virtual space containing a compendium of successful, replicable experiences through South-South Cooperation. These experiences help governments find solutions to concrete problems, guiding their development actions.
In turn, the platform streamlines and facilitates the preparation and launch of horizontal cooperation initiatives. It contributes to promoting multilateral South-South Cooperation initiatives by establishing mechanisms that foster knowledge exchange and "know-how," mutual learning, while encouraging alternative solutions built on the experiences of UNFPA Country Offices and their local counterparts.
This platform aims to facilitate the interaction of national and/or regional peers from their dual role: both as facilitators of experiences and solutions, and as recipients of experiences and solutions. It is characterized by an operational mechanism that drives and promotes South-South Cooperation on issues related to UNFPA's mandates and proactively contributes to the local and national development of countries in the region.
