UNEP is working in partnership with a variety of UN and non-UN actors to address capacity-building and technology support for the South-South cooperation initiative.
Key actors with which UNEP collaborates include:
UNEP’s South-South Cooperation unit works with various organizations to support capacity development and technology support activities in environment among countries and regions of the south. It conducts discussions with external partners to establish strategic partnerships, identify opportunities for collaboration including the development of joint programmes of support, leveraging of technical and financial resources and implementation of specific capacity building and technology transfer projects. Key actors include the following:
UNPD
UNEP works with UNDP’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation to identify potential joint SSC support activities including linkages to the UNDP knowledge base and UNEP intervention in Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.
NEPAD
UNEP collaborates closely with NEPAD’s Secretariat of the NEPAD Environment Initiative to support incorporation of SSC in the implementation of the priority activities in the workplan of the environment unit.
China-Africa Cooperation Forum
Collaborative efforts include identifIcation of opportunities for tapping into the technical and financial resources of the forum to support capacity building and technology support needs
identified by countries of the region.
Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to identify opportunities for establishing strategic alliances
that will serve as the umbrella frameworks for identifying, formulating and implementing
specifi capacity building and technology support projects with technical and financial
support from Brazil. The discussions are conducted in the framework of the broader cooperation
mechanism comprising emerging economies represented by India, China and South Africa.
Network of African Environment Protection Agencies to foster greater cooperation
and collaboration in support of environmental management and sustainable development in
Africa.