| 01
- 03 December, 2009
The
High Level United Nations Conference
on South-South Cooperation
Nairobi, Kenya —
Executive
Director Mr. Harry Jooseery represented
PPD at the high-level United Nations
conference on South-South Cooperation
and shared the PPD‘s experiences
in South- South Cooperation in Population
and Development sector. From last
fifteen year a number of South-South
Cooperation programs, projects, activities
and events were successfully implemented
by PPD addressing the family planning,
reproductive health, and safe motherhood
and HIV/AIDS programs. The high-level
United Nations conference was hosted
by Kenya (PPD’s Member State
and Secretary of PPD board) and held
at the UN’s Nairobi headquarters,
the 1-3 December 2009.
At
the opening session of the meeting,
ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, Deputy-Secretary-General
of the United Nations, conveyed greetings
from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
and said that the demands of our deeply
interconnected world call for practical
solutions, reinforced by stronger
South-South and North-South partnerships.
RAILA AMOLO ODINGA, Prime Minister
of Kenya, officially open the conference
on 1 December 2009. It consisted of
plenary meetings and interactive multi-sector
stakeholder round tables on two sub-themes:
(i)
Strengthening of the role of the
United Nations system in supporting
South-South and triangular cooperation;
and
(ii)
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
for Development: complementarities,
specificities, challenges and opportunities.
The
conference recognized South-South
cooperation as an important element
of international cooperation for development,
which offers viable opportunities
for developing countries in their
individual and collective pursuits
of sustained economic growth and sustainable
development, and emphasized that South-South
cooperation is not a substitute for,
but is complementary to North-South
cooperation.
Member States of the United Nations
system, as well as intergovernmental
organizations with observer status
with the United Nations General Assembly
and United Nation’s specialized
agencies and other entities of the
United Nations system were on the
participants list.
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