The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking projects or programs that have provided solutions for Energy, Climate Change, Industrial Development, Inclusive Social Development, Biodiversity, Forestry and Land Degradation, Agriculture, Health, Youth and Women and Energy Access. The selected projects will be showcased at the Global South for the Global South-South Development Expo which will be held in Vienna, Austria from 19-23 November 2012. It will be hosted at the UNIDO headquarters.
Nominations of projects or programs are accepted from any public or private institution, group or project that have made significant contributions to human development in the global south and that has provided solutions to address the challenges in the areas of climate change/environment, food security, global health can be nominated. The Expo seeks organizations and institutions that can nominate southern development solutions (SDS) that could readily be replicated, scaled up or adapted across developing countries. The South Development Solution (SDS) could be a Southern-grown solution, a South-South partnership solution, a North-South-South triangular partnership solution, a South-South-Multilateral Organization solution, Public-Private partnership solution, and/or combination of all these.
Nominated initiatives should have some of all of the following attributes:
- South priority/demand driven
- South ownership
- South leadership
- Broad-based partnership
- Innovation
- Efficiency
- Sustainability
- Scalability
The best selected solutions will receive:
- An opportunity to exhibit the initiative at the Global South-South Development Expo
- The opportunity to interact with partners and donors interested in funding or replicating the initiative in other developing countries.
- A Commemorative plaque at the Special Ceremony with World Leaders.
The deadline to submit nominations is 12 October 2012. For more information, visit this link.
I wish I had known about this earlier. I am working on an amazing project in Uganda that would have been a perfect fit for this. Please inform if anything else similar to this arises please.
Thank you
Ben from Canada, (based in Kamapala,Uganda)
CSS-SL administrative structure find tis programm very very interesting and want to be part of it.
Consideration is been made for us living in the south West Africa and the way we are poor in meeting the air tickets to and from and then accomodation, but if any help will be given ,then it might for us.
Thanks in advance for informing us and may be lighting us atten.
Best Regards
Lansana Kamanda Bongay
Programme Manager
Community Support Services- Sierra Leone
CSS-SL.
Assalamualaikum(peace be up on you)Alhamdulillah(all praise to God)I am Alhajj.Mohammad Fazlul Haque,CDYW(UK)started social & health work at 10years age , today runnin g one of the largest NGOs of Bangladesh,visited 109 countries & awarded as the out standing t young person of the world-1987 by JCI.I like to work with you .Pl help us guide us to make healthy,wealthy & happy life for all.Pl send all information , guide line s and above tools for funding ,proposals, grants.partnership etc, after receiving yours We shall send ours
how can l get an NGO’s to help me?
l am from Ghana in west Africa, a town called Asesewa-eastern region. l wish to help the teenage mothers in the communities. teenage mothers are rampant in the area which leads many young girls to leave schools. l want to restore hope to these teenage mothers so that they can either further school or trade to have better lives. l want an NGO’s which will help me to achieve this program to help bright the lives of these youth and their children’s. counting on your cooperation. thank you.
l am from Ghana in west Africa, a town called Asesewa-eastern region. l wish to help the teenage mothers in the communities. teenage mothers are rampant in the area which leads many young girls to leave schools. l want to restore hope to these teenage mothers so that they can either further school or trade to have better lives. l want an NGO’s which will help me to achieve this program to help bright the lives these youth and their children’s. counting on your cooperation. thank you.