Thank you for joining the conversation to help shape the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation’s next Work Programme! This group has been created to facilitate conversation around GPEDC Action Area 2.2 Triangular Co-operation for Sustainable Development.
Context
The adoption of the 2030 Agenda represented the global community’s collective willingness to diverge from ‘business as usual’ and forge a new path towards a more peaceful, prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable future for all. In response, development co-operation modalities have evolved to include new actors, tools, technologies and approaches to partnership. Contemporary triangular co-operation is one such modality.
Contemporary triangular co-operation offers an adaptable and flexible approach to evolving development challenges, building on the strengths of different actors to find innovative, cost-effective, and context-specific solutions. It is a dynamic model of South-South-North co-operation in which three or more partners come together to address a development issue. This model broadens traditional roles to a more comprehensive and inclusive interaction between actors, including governments to civil society, philanthropy, international organizations or the private sector.
By creating more inclusive and equitable partnerships, contemporary triangular co-operation provides an opportunity for all development actors to achieve greater effectiveness, coherence, and impact to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Triangular Cooperation at the GPEDC
Established in 2016 at the GPEDC’s 2nd High-Level Meeting, the Global Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Cooperation (GPI) has helped to shape and build momentum around the contemporary approach to triangular co-operation. To complement this work and to integrate triangular cooperation into its policies and activities, the GPEDC has created an action area on triangular cooperation under the “Building Better Partnerships” priority of its 2020-2022 Work Programme. The main objective of this action area (TrC AA) is to build greater awareness of and mainstream engagement for effective triangular co-operation within the GPEDC network. The GPI’s Voluntary Guidelines for Effective Triangular Cooperation serve as an anchor and underlying theme to achieve this objective, due to their root in effectiveness.
The GPI will continue to lead the strategic, analytical, technical and advocacy work on effective triangular cooperation, while the GPEDC TrC AA will focus its efforts on advocating the contemporary vision of triangular cooperation within the GPEDC multi-stakeholder network and constituencies. It will seek to pilot the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines, reporting back lessons learned to the GPI as a means to help the GPI create a stronger evidence-base.
The GPI and GPEDC TrC AA are working closely together to promote synergies between their respective activities.
Where appropriate, the GPEDC’s TrC AA will consider how activities can be used to highlight the contributions of effective triangular co-operation towards the achievement of various Sustainable Development Goals, including but not limited to SDG 5 (Gender Equality). Recognizing that linkages exist between different partnership modalities, the working group will also work closely with other Acton Areas, such as Action Area 2.1: Private Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Development, to leverage synergies and complementarities where possible.
Any questions may be directed to: info@effectivecooperation.org.
We look forward to engaging with you as this work takes shape!