The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation (SU/SSC) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1978. Hosted in UNDP, our primary mandate is to promote, coordinate and support South-South and triangular cooperation on a Global and United Nations system-wide basis.

The Special Unit receives policy directives and guidance from the General Assembly High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation (HLC) which is a committee of the whole and a subsidiary body of the General Assembly that reviews world wide progress in South-South Cooperation. The Special Unit serves as the HLC's full Secretariat, preparing all substantive reports, including the report to the Secretary General on the state of South-South Cooperation. We organize the GA-proclaimed United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, celebrated annually on December 19. We manage the United Nations Trust Fund for South-South Cooperation (UNFSC) and the Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund (PGTF) and also implement programmes financed by United Nations Development Programme [More]