The Global South-South Development (GSSD) Expo 2010 will be held from 22 to 26 November 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Expo is a multilateral even with over 100 partner countries and organizations coming together to showcase and exchange successful South-South development solutions. It was first launched in 2008 by the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation hosted at UNDP and it is now an annual event.
The 2010 Expo has a motto: Solutions! Solutions! Solutions! Accordingly, “The GSSD Expo is not designed for the discussion of problems or the presentation of generalized scenarios and prescriptions for solving them. Rather, it is designed solely to enable developing countries and their development partners, including donor agencies, organizations of the United Nations system, and private-sector and civil society organizations, to systematically and regularly showcase their evidence-based South-South development solutions (SSDSs).”
The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation has issued a call for nominations to seek a project or a program that has provided a successful solution in the areas of Climate Change/Environment, Food Security, Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Social Protection & Decent Work and Education. “Any public or private institution, group or project that has 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. We seek organizations and institutions that can nominate south 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.”
The deadline for submission of the nomination form is 30 September 2010.For more information, visit this link.
