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WFP example: South-South and triangular cooperation Innovation Challenge

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WFP example: South-South and triangular cooperation Innovation Challenge

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Comparative Advantage: INNOVATIVE

The appalling rising number of people threatened by food insecurity and malnutrition and the global food crisis makes it clear that we are not on the right track to eliminate hunger by 2030. No organization or government alone will be able to reach all the people in need. The global community needs to strengthen effective partnerships and leverage all innovative solutions to reverse the global trend of growing food insecurity. The Global South has a huge untapped potential of cost-effective innovations that can be made available, adapted, and scaled up to support country-led progress on SDG 2.

WFP has embraced innovation as a key enabler and driving force to accelerate progress towards zero hunger. To leverage its partnerships and innovative solutions available in the Global South, WFP - in collaboration with the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich - launched the 2023 WFP South-South and Triangular Cooperation Innovation Challenge.

The objective of the initiative was to give visibility to innovative country-owned solutions from the Global South (e.g., policies, programmes and technologies) in four thematic areas - (1) social protection, (2) resilience building, (3) climate adaptation, and (4) emergency preparedness and response - that have the potential to boost low-income countries’ responses to global food crises and strengthen national systems to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.

Out of over 40 applications from 27 countries, 4 innovative solutions emerged as winners of the Innovations Challenge. The four country teams of the selected solutions, supported by WFP staff, received seed funding and training to refine the packaging of their solution, generate additional evidence on the solution’s effectiveness/ efficiency/ replicability and prepare to share it with peer countries in phase II of the Innovation Challenge (currently under implementation).

You can find a summary of the 4 selected solutions in the image attached, and more information in the WFP Innovation Challenge publication here: https://www.wfp.org/publications/2023-south-south-and-triangular-cooperation-innovation-challenge.

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IOM example: Azerbaijan's Regional Training Centre on Migration Management

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IOM example: Azerbaijan's Regional Training Centre on Migration Management

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Comparative advantage: RELEVANCE OF SOLUTIONS SHARED AMONG PARTNERS

Migration is a global phenomenon, but also, in great part a South-South affair. With 37% of all international migrants migrating within the Global South compared to the 35% migrating from the South to the North, South-South migration growth continues to outpace South-North migration. This reality presents and will continue to present diverse opportunities and challenges for States and migrants alike. Many of those are best responded to through solutions established in the South.

For instance, Azerbaijan, with the support of IOM, has set up in 2022 a Regional Training Centre on Migration Management (RTCM).

It serves as a hub for knowledge and expertise transfer, research, and policy dialogue amongst governments and a broad range of stakeholders in the field of migration in the region – and contributes to build the partnerships necessary for the co-creation of  contextually appropriate solutions.

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A Delegation of Djibouti 🇩🇯 visited #Morocco 🇲🇦as part of an exchange of good practices with the Ministry
@financesmaroc. The exchange was organized by Moroccan as well as the UN Development System (Resident Coordinator Office)
This enriching mission, punctuated by a visit to the Tanger Med Port, a strategic hub for world trade was an important insigh for the Djibouti delegation espacially that this country and its Djibouti port is becoming a minimal deviation from the principal East-West trade route and provides a secure regional hub for transhipment and relay of goods.
Comparative advantage : It was a peer to peer knowledge exchange.   #SouthSouthCooperation

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During my time working with UNDP’s Youth Empowerment in Climate Action Platform (YECAP) at the Asia-Pacific level, I had the opportunity to engage in a South-South cooperation initiative during a regional workshop on Meaningful Youth Engagement in NDCs held in Samoa. This experience clearly illustrated the comparative advantage of contextual relevance and cost-effectiveness.

Rather than relying on external expertise from developed countries, the workshop brought together youth leaders and practitioners from countries like Bangladesh, Fiji, Samoa, and Indonesia to exchange locally grounded solutions. For example, Bangladesh’s experience in mobilizing youth for climate advocacy through low-cost digital campaigns and community engagement was shared and adapted by Pacific island participants facing similar climate vulnerabilities. This peer-learning approach significantly reduced costs associated with international consultants while ensuring that the solutions were culturally appropriate and practical.

Additionally, triangular cooperation was evident as UNDP facilitated knowledge exchange while leveraging regional networks and modest funding to scale impact. The collaboration demonstrated that countries facing similar development challenges can co-create effective, affordable, and scalable solutions, making South-South and triangular cooperation a powerful tool for accelerating sustainable development.