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Global Advocacy

The global advocacy category covers services that are designed to promote the use of trade as a development tool and to encourage sup­port for developing countries’ efforts to improve their trade capacity building. This includes analysis and dissemination of trade-related information, promoting understanding of the relationship between trade and development, and supporting policies. Some agencies pro­vide information on and support for the interactions between their more specialized interests and trade.

unido

United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)

Summary of activities included in this category
Cost-benefit analysis for conformity assessment infrastructure and services
Quality infrastructure needs assessments
Trade Standards Compliance Analysis
Industrial Development Reports

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

South-South cooperation is the process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources and technical know-how, and through regional and interregional collective actions, including partnerships involving Governments, regional organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, for their individual and/or mutual benefit within and across regions.

Triangular Cooperation is a southern-driven partnership between two or more developing countries, supported by a developed country or multilateral organization(s), to implement development cooperation programmes and projects.

unido

United Nations Industrial Development Organization(unido)

Summary of activities included in this category
South-South and triangular industrial cooperation mechanisms
Promoting ISID through Partnership Building for Trade and Investment Flows along the Maritime and Continental Silk Road (2015 – 2018)
Building Partnerships for South-South and Triangular Industrial Cooperation between China and Other Developing Countries for Technological Upgrading (2016 – 2019)
UNIDO’s annual “Belt and Road Inclusive and Sustainable City Exhibition and Dialogue”
Networks, platforms and partnerships with a focus on South-South cooperation