Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia High Level Event on South – South Cooperation and Capacity Development Contributions to a more effective cooperation architecture Colombia 2010

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Main issues: Context, objective and scope of the meeting Meeting details Preliminar Agenda and Event Format Steering Committee Technical Secretariat

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 1. Context, objective and scope of the meeting

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Context ↘ South – South Cooperation (SSC) and Capacity Development (CD) are valuable and necessary inputs for enhancing cooperation effectiveness ↘ On the basis of the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action (AAA), the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP – EFF) endorsed a Task Team on SSC ↘ The Capacity Development Alliance (CD Alliance) will identify leaders to promote better coordination among themselves and with donors

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Objective ↘ Contribute to make more visible the interests, needs expectations as well as the potential of developing countries, in the global development architecture ↘ Allow partner countries, to share their experiences in SSC and CD to enrich the TT-SSC and CD Alliance and other relevant initiatives ↘ Consolidate recommendations to provide valuable inputs for the preparation of the Korea HLF - IV

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Scope ↘ Disseminate and discuss ongoing analytical work on SSC and CD, in the context of aid effectiveness ↘ Exchange and discuss country – level experiences in SSC and CD, as well as their relevance for the implementation of Paris Declaration principles and AAA commitments ↘ Identify and facilitate the synergies between SSC and CD ↘ Agree on next steps to promote SSC and CD, in preparation of the Korea HLF - IV

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 2. Meeting details

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Meeting Details City : BogotáVenue : The Bogotá Chamber of Commerce Date : March 24 th – 26 th

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 3. Preliminar Agenda and Event Format

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Tentative programme Closing session Moderated plenary discussion Inauguration and opening Round tables Ministerial/Heads of delegation segment Accra HLF – Roundtable 9 Regional priorities Pertinence of PD principles for the practice of SSC HLM Chairs will propose recommendations towards the 2011 HLF Minister will agree on proposed recommendation

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Ministers Objective: Support to both SSC and CD ensuring a consistent learning and global policy - making process from Accra 2008 via Bogotá 2010 to Seoul 2011 ↘ Present a highly consensus recommendations considering technical and political implications of the PD and AAA ↘ Guarantee that concrete action can be taken in relatively short term (up to HLF 2011) HOW...?

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 4. Steering Committee

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Structure Colombia Co Chair TT-SSC Egypt Co Chair CD Alliance Korea Host 2011 HLM Mozambique Vietnam Thailand Perú México Spain World Bank ADB IDB UNDP CAD / OECD ↘ The steering committee will achieve a maximum balance between all actors involved directly in SSC and CD Andean Community NEPAD ACDF

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Responsabilities ↘ Support and supervise the thematic preparation of the HLE SSC/CD ↘ Supervise the preparatory activities to the Knowledge Fair and the side events ↘ Prepare, share and consolidate the ministerial recommendations of the HLE regarding SSC and CD ↘ Encourage a strong involvement and a consistent leadership of Southern countries and active participation of development partners and multilateral organizations in the preparations, celebrations and follow - up

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Calendar DateVenueThemes - September 15 Washington, TT-SSC meeting - Defining responsibilities and roles - Defining members - Revising list of participants - Venue and draft agenda - Knowledge fair proposal - September 28 México, Outreach, OCDE - Circulating draft agenda - Draft Knowledge fair proposal - November VC meeting - Circulating invitations - Launching knowledge fair process - December 4 Paris, WP meeting - Discussing draft Ministerial recommendations - Presenting knowledge fair progress - Feb 2010 (tbd)- Discussing draft ministerial recommendations

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 5. Technical Secretariat

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Objective ↘ Facilitate the coordination of preparatory work in three different issues Conceptual work Administrative and logistic Knowledge fair 1 2 3

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia 6. Knowledge Fair

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Objectives and Scope Discovering and disseminating evidence of effective practices of SSC and CD. Documenting good practices and accelerating the exchange and learning among institutions, people and communities that have been part of these processes. Offering empirical evidence that could enrich the analysis and evaluation process that is performed under the TT SSC and platforms such as the Impact Alliance and LenCD. Enriching the political and technical dialogue developed under the High Level Event in March Generating social capital and cohesion among institutions and practitioners to catalyze further regional SSC learning and exchange heading towards Seoul.

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República de Colombia Process