The meeting participants agreed on the need for greater collaboration and coordination of efforts to promote South-South cooperation with a view to contributing more fruitfully to international development.  They also decided to take up a few tasks more systematically and remain active until the next meeting of the High-level Committee in 2003.  Major decisions taken included a review of the revised guidelines relating to policies and procedures concerning TCDC, finalization of a common results framework for better reporting on TCDC, system-wide documentation and dissemination of successful practices of South-South cooperation, and strengthening of information systems and databases of all organizations of the United Nations system and their interlinkage for easy access by developing countries.

The PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING includes the following topics:

• Review of the decisions of the High-level Committee relevant to the United Nations system
• Documenting and disseminating best practices
• Increasing inter-agency information-sharing and system linkages
• Mainstreaming and reporting on TCDC
• Programme of Action of the South Summit
• Second Cooperation Framework for TCDC 2001-2003
• Resources for TCDC
• Review of guidelines
• Conclusion of the meeting