20 March 2019, Buenos Aires – Members of the Southern CSO Alliance on South-South Cooperation (SSC), CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) and The Reality of Aid Network have gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 2nd UN High Level Conference or BAPA+40, happening on March 20 to 22, 2019. The BAPA+40 Conference commemorates the 40th year of the signing of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA), and explores the role of SSC and

We, civil society organizations from Asia, Africa and Latin America under the banner of the Southern CSO Alliance on South-South Cooperation, welcome the following positive developments to the draft of the outcome document and propose further improvements: (i) SSC IN RELATION TO N-S COOPERATION – defining SSC as being only complementary and not an alternative to the North-South cooperation, which still stands as the main channel for development cooperation. While distinguishing it from ODA, however,

Recent changes in the direction and prospect for international aid in the context of Agenda 2030 lead us to raise questions on the role of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in meeting the financing needs of Agenda 2030.  Is ODA fit for this purpose? Are the current directions in ODA helping or hindering the realization of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs? Many challenges for development in the 21st Century require both a human rights -based and

We, civil society organizations from Asia, Africa and Latin America under the banner of the Southern CSO Alliance on South-South Cooperation, first and foremost, commend the UN Office for South-South Cooperation for organizing the 2nd High Level Conference on South-South Cooperation. We join in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, which reaffirmed that technical cooperation’s purpose, guided by the principles of respect for national sovereignty and equality,

October 14, 2018 | Bali, Indonesia Whereas, South-South Cooperation, having arisen from the Global South’s search for alternatives to the paternalistic and unequal traditional North-South development aid and cooperation framework, poses opportunities and has raised high hopes for people from the South; Whereas, emerging in the 1950s in the context of the common struggle of former colonies for genuine independence and development, 29 countries from Asia and Africa met at the Bandung Conference in 1955 to promote economic and

Bali, Indonesia – 22 organizations from Asia, Africa and Latin America, fresh off of a CSO planning meeting on the road to the 2nd High Level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40 Conference)1, just launched the Southern CSO Alliance on South-South Cooperation. This is in light of the ambitious 2030 Agenda, which encourages development actors to step up their efforts to strengthen global partnership, including South-South Cooperation (SSC). The Alliance, spearheaded by The Reality of Aid Network and several