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Milestones
of the evolution of policy making for TCDC
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Report of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation
A/60/39
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XIV HLC
2005 |
List of Participants
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From TCDC to South-South Cooperation: the need to include ECDC on the SU/TCDC agenda.
HLC/TCDC 13/2
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XIII HLC 2003 |
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Bridging knowledge and information
gap is one of the five main objectives of TCDC established by the
Tehran
Consensus by the G-77
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2001 |
The
five main objectives are:
- consolidating South-South platform
- building stronger South institutions at the global level
- bridging the knowledge and information gap
- building broad-based partnerships
- mobilizing global support for South-South cooperation
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Greater
collaboration and coordination between United Nations
Agencies Focal points is decided in an effort to
promote South-South cooperation
UN
Inter-Agency Meeting final report, june 2001
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2001 |
Decision to systematize the documentation and dissemination of successful practices of
South-South cooperation, strengthening information systems and databases
of the United Nations system
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Need
for development of TCDC projects in the fields of science
and technology pointed out
HLC/TCDC
12/5 final report
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XII HLC 2001 |
Definition that there is a need for:
- catalyzing the development of the Least Developed
Countries and their economic independence by focusing TCDC
projects on reducing the technological
gap
- increasing the
awareness on the Voluntary Trust Fund to attract greater
volume of resources
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| HLC
enhances the concept that South-South Cooperation should
be viewed as a complement, not a substitute for
North-South Cooperation
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XI HLC
1999 |
The
session also reiterated the Buenos Aires Plan of Action
recommendation for giving priority to the use of local
capabilities and expertise in developing countries or the
use of technical resources from other developing
countries
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HLC
proposes the revised Guidelines for the Review of Policies
and Procedures concerning TCDC to be presented to the
United Nations General Assembly in 1998
Report Meeting on TCDC Pivotal Countries
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X HLC 1997
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The
Revised Guidelines for the Review of Policies and
Procedures aim at:
- better incorporation of TCDC in the United Nations
agencies' programs and projects in all aspects of funding,
focal points, disseminating information, building
strategies etc.
- promotion of triangular cooperation and dissemination of
best practices in South-South technical and economic
cooperation
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Creation
of a Voluntary Trust Fund for South-South cooperation
called upon by the United Nations General Assembly
- endorsement of the TCDC new directions
Resolution
50/119
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1995
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The
Trust Fund for the promotion of TCDC was established
within the UNDP. The first countries to contribute to it
were Japan, the Republic of Korea and Ireland.
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TCDC
new
directions given by the High Level Committee and
endorsed by the United Nations General
Assembly
- concept of
pivotal
countries as the developing countries that can be
catalysts of regional and interregional TCDC
- preliminary
study
report prepared by UNDP's Special
Unit for TCDC
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IX HLC 1995 |
The "new directions"
policy based on the new challenges facing the developing
countries posed by the emerging economic order set the:
- adoption of a more strategic
orientation for TCDC, focused on high priority areas
- definition of a
number of developing countries as "pivotal
countries" or catalysts for the promotion of
regional and interregional TCDC
- operational integration between
technical and economic cooperation among developing
countries
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Support
from the ECOSOC to the development of TCDC
Resolutions and Decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council
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ECOSOC
1992
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The ECOSOC
invites all of its parties to give "first
consideration to the use of the modality
of technical cooperation among developing countries" to ensure that it gets more widespread. |
Definition
of criteria
for the design of
TCDC projects within the UNDP and other UN organizations
HLC Decision
on criteria for TCDC Projects Decision 2/9 dated June 7, 1981
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II HLC
1981
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Definition of policies, rules and procedures for TCDC projects
and sources of funding |
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- Creation of
the focal
Points concept
- the focal point
can be an individual, an inter-ministerial committee, an
agency
HLC
decision on TCDC Focal Points - Decision
1/1 dated June 2, 1980
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I HLC
1980
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Developing countries
are Invited o
create national focal points or other appropriate mechanisms
to enhance TCDC. A national focal point -
whether it is an individual, an inter-ministerial committee,
a development agency - has to be supported by the government
to handle all TCDC matters. |
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Creation
of the "High Level Committee on the review of
Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries" by
the United Nations general Assembly |
1980 |
The HLC should meet every
two years according to the Buenos Aires Plan of Action.
Resolution 35/202
dated December 16, 1980
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The
United Nations General Assembly endorses Buenos Aires Plan
of Action |
1978 |
Resolution
33/134 dated December 19, 1978
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Release
of the
Buenos
Aires Plan of Action for promoting and implementing
TCDC |
1978 |
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recommendations defining that TCDC
has to be focused on
the purpose of increasing the capacity of the developing
countries and their awareness and confidence in their
capabilities
- the reinforcement of
the role of UNDP's Special Unit
for TCDC
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Creation of UNDP's Special
Unit for TCDC endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly
(Resolution 3251(XXIX)
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1974 |
Beginning
of the studies and analyses focused on TCDC
issues and carried on within the United Nations
Development System and on the interregional and national
levels. |
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