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United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

Ref:SSC/2017/10/179-10

Dear Ms. Xiuli XU,

Empowered Iives Resilient nations.

25 October 2017

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 1st Steering Committee Meeting for the South-South

Global Thinkers: the Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks for South-South Cooperation, co-hosted by the United

Nations Development programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).

The event will take place on the sidelines of the 2017 Global South-South Development Expo in Antalya, Turkey on

30 November 2017.

To date, UNDP, jointly with UNOSSC, have formalized six partnerships with Southern think tank networks

from various regions: Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST); Silk Road Think

Tank Network (SiLKS); Latin America Initiative on Politics and Public Affairs Studies (ILAIPP); Southern Voice; Network

of Southern Think Tanks (NeST); and the Middle East and North Africa Public Administration Research (MENAPAR)

network. We have also entered to a five-year partnership with Yingke Law Firm, a multinationallaw corporation based

in China, and with the Finance Center for South-South Cooperation, both supporting this initiative.

To kick-start the partnerships and the work of the Global Coalition, the 1't Steering Committee meeting will

serve as a space to agree on the roles and responsibilities of its members and founders and to formulate mid-term

and long-term strategies. It will also mark the officiallaunch of the South-South Global Thinkers online platform.

It would be a great honour to have you join the event and share your insights on how the Global Coalition

can inform global policy dialogues on South-South and triangular Cooperation, including on the upcoming 40th

anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA+40).

Details of our invitation are as follows:

1. This invitation is for:

Xiuli XU

Professor, China Agricultural University

Female

Date of Birth: 8 Oct 1977

Passport Number: PE0833430

2. Purpose

Ms. Xiuli XU

Professor

To participate in the Global South-South Development Expo 2017 including in the 1st Steering

Committee Meeting for the South-South Global Thinkers: the Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks

for South-South Cooperation (as described above).

China Agricultural University

Network of Southern Think Tanks (NeST)

3. Venue and date:

Hotel Titanic Deluxe Golf Belek, Antalya, Turkey

27 to 30 November 2017

Steering Committee Meeting will be held on 30 November 2017

4. Travel required:

To arrive on 26 November 2017 and to depart on 1 December 2017

5. Financial support: The South-South Global Thinkers project will cover all costs.

Please find attached the concept note and tentative agenda for your kind reference. For more information

on logistical arrangements and to register for the Expo, kindly navigate the following link:

httP:l /www.expo.unsouthsouth.org/

For your information, details of the organizers are as fo llows:

Ms. Shams Banihani

programme Analγst

United Nations Development programme

+1.646.781.4125

shams.Banihani(ã)undo.org

We would be thankfu l for your confirmation of participation by 27 October 2017, and look forward to our

discussions at the event.

Yours sincerely,

Jorge Chediek Simona Marinescu

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Version 23 October 2017

TENTATIVE EVENT STRUCTURE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

GLOBAL SOUTH-SOUTH DEVELOPMENT EXPO 2017 (Featuring plenary sessions only-NOT including side events)

Antalya Turkey

27 – 30 November 2017

AM/PM

TIME SLOT SESSION/ACTIVITY

Day 1 27 Nov

AM

9.00 a.m. -10.00 a.m. High-level Opening Ceremony

10.00 a.m. -10.30 a.m. Inauguration of Exhibition

10.30 a.m. -11 a.m. Press Conference (tbc)

10.30 a.m. -11 a.m. Coffee Break

11 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Day 1 Leadership Round Table on Digital Ecosystem for Development

Public Service Innovations

Proposed partners: Bangladesh Prime Minister Office a2i Initiative, MFA, Singapore Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana

PM

12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m. Lunch Break

1.30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 1 Science, Technology and Innovation for Development

Proposed partners: MFA, TUBITAK, UNECE, WIPO, UNESCO

3 p.m. -3.15 p.m. Coffee Break

3.15 p.m. - 4.45 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 2

The Role of SSTC in the Promotion of Innovation and Communication Technologies for Rural Development Proposed partners: IFAD

4.45 p.m. – 5 p.m. Coffee Break

5 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 3

Big Data for Development

Proposed partners: UNDP

6.30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Welcome Reception and Culture Performance (tbc)



Day 2 28 Nov

11 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 4

Youth Employment and Skills Development

Proposed partners: ILO

PM

12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m. Lunch Break

1.30 p.m. - 3 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 5

Women as Benefactors of Development through Social Entrepreneurship

Proposed partners: SESRIC, UN Women, MFA

3 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Coffee Break

3.15 p.m. - 4.45 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 6 Good Practices of South-South Cooperation for Implementation of the SDGs: Development through Transformation Proposed Partners: Turkic Council, UNDP



Accelerating Country-led Progress towards Zero Hunger through joint and complementary efforts of the Rome- Based UN Agencies

Proposed partners: FAO, IFAD, WFP, MFA

AM

9.00 a.m. -10.30 a.m. Day 2 Leadership Round Table on South-South Cooperation for People and Planet

Youth Empowerment and Launching of Youth Leadership Initiative Proposed partners: UNESCO, Commonwealth Secretariat, OIC, Union for the Mediterranean, UN SG Envoy on Youth Office (tbc), ICYF


Day 3 29 Nov

AM

9.00 a.m. -10.30 a.m. Day 3 Leadership Round Table on South-South Cooperation for Peace, Prosperity, and Partnerships

From Delivering Aid to Ending Need: Advancing the 2030 Agenda in Crisis Contexts

Proposed partners: TIKA, UN-OCHA


11 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 8

Peacebuilding and Peace Alternatives Proposed partners: APC-Colombia, g7+

PM

12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch Break

1.30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 9

Climate Change Partnerships Proposed partners: Southern Climate Partnership Incubator, MFA, Joint UNDP- General Directorate of Forestry Project, INBAR

3 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. Coffee Break

3.15 p.m. - 4.45 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 10

Private Sector and Enterprises Engagement in Development

Proposed partners: MFA, UNDP-IICPSD, UNICEF, USAID



Cooperation among Countries for Health Development

Proposed partners: PAHO, WHO, UNFPA

6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Dinner Event

United Nations Multi-Stakeholders Meeting on South-South and triangular cooperation Proposed Partners: All UN Agencies


Day 4 30 Nov

AM

9.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. High-level Forum of Directors General for Development Cooperation (DG Forum) Proposed focuses:

1 BAPA+40 conference 2 Capacity development in institutional arrangement and management of SSTC 3 Regional cooperation

4 Resources and Funds for SSC

PM

1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch Break

2 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. DG Forum continued

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. High-level Closing Ceremony and Dinner (tbc)


Date Side Event Proposed Day and Time

Location

1 26 November 2017 3rd Regional Networking Forum 9 a.m. -6 p.m. Akdeniz 2 27 November 2017 India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) Fund Side Event 12.30 p.m. -1.30

p.m. Expo Stage

3 27 November 2017 WFP’s SSC Approach—Network of Centres of Excellence for South-South Cooperation

12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.

Adriatic

4 27 November 2017 Launch of PGTF Special Edition 12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Expo Stage

5 28 November 2017 tbc 12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Adriatic

6 28 November 2017 Launch of the UfM SSiA 12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Expo Stage

7 28 November 2017 Institutionalization of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region

1 p.m. -4:30 pm Adriatic

8 29 November 2017 WFP Brazil scaling up Partnerships for Food Security 12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Adriatic

9 29 November 2017 High-level Ministerial Meeting on Agricultural Development

12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Adriatic

10 29 November 2017 Launch of the INBAR SSiA 12.30 p.m. -1.30 p.m.

Expo Stage

11 30 November 2017 High-Level Roundtable Workshop on City Experiences on Utilizing Tourism for Sustainable Development

11 a.m. – 12.30 P.m.

Adriatic

12 30 November 2017 UN-OIC Side Event 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Adriatic 13 30 November 2017 Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks Stakeholder

Meeting 1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Adriatic

14 30 November 2017 DG Forum Side Event: Reporting South-South Cooperation: Global, Regional and National Level

1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.

Adriatic

15 30 November 2017 NGOs/CSOs Side Event TBC Adriatic

1st Steering Committee Meeting for the South‐South Global Thinkers:

the Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks for SSC

Side‐event Organized by UNDP and UNOSSC Titanic Deluxe Golf Belek Hotel

Antalya, Turkey 30 November 2017, 13:00‐15:00

I. Background

Two years ago, the world unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an agenda

calling for a new and inclusive global partnership of which South‐South and Triangular cooperation (SSC

and TrC) forms an integral part. Placing importance on the need to enhance knowledge sharing through

improved coordination among existing mechanisms, Goal 17 “Revitalize the global partnership for

sustainable development”, in particular, underscores the critical role of SSC and TrC in helping countries

to advance their development priorities. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda also recognizes the importance

of strengthening SSC and TrC as fundamental means for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

Over the past 15 years, cooperation among countries of the South has continued to expand across sectors,

SSC and TrC growing in prominence and quality of partnerships as a result of increased resources,

geographical reach and diversity of approaches. In 2013, the UNDP Human Development Report revealed

that from 1980 to 2011 the share of world merchandise trade between South‐South more than tripled,

while North‐North decreased during the same period.

Despite progress, the potential of SSC and TrC to contribute towards sustainable development and

poverty eradication has not been fully leveraged. Knowledge gaps and uneven access to solutions and

resources are major obstacles hindering progress and the full realization of the SSC potential and its

impact on sustainable development. The availability of information and quality of research on the scale

and impact of SSC and TrC have not kept pace with the growing demand among Southern partners for

peer learning to further improve results.

In addition, policy incoherence, together with a lack of understanding of the respective legal and policy environments for cooperation, can create ‘thick borders’ between countries and hinder the expansion of SSC and TrC. Lacking understanding of the linkage between South‐South trade, investment in basic infrastructure or productive capacity cooperation, and development outcomes also constrains the range and value of development benefits that can be realized through those SSC modalities. Addressing these knowledge gaps will be critical in the context of scaling‐up SSC for sustainable development.

There is a clear need for academics and researchers to tackle this challenge head‐on and a clear demand

for think tanks, especially from the Global South, to lead the way. As public policy research, analysis and

engagement organizations, think tanks and research institutes can play a vital role in the political and

policy arenas at the local, national level, and global levels and assist governments in understanding and in

making informed choices about issues of domestic and international concerns. Thus, they can strategically

champion the thought leadership on SSC and TrC.

However, scale and complexity of SSC require multidisciplinary knowledge and analysis, which can be very

difficult to fully master by any individual think tank or a single network of think tanks. It takes a platform

to pool knowledge and expertise of multiple think tank networks to work together to tackle the knowledge

gaps in SSC. Through such a platform of exchanges among think tank networks on SSC, the diversified

perspectives of SSC also can become a strength that can be fully appreciated and leveraged to enrich our

understanding and inform better decision‐making in SSC. Thus, global support is needed for those

networks to better connect with each other to collectively address multi‐disciplinary challenges together,

and to find channels to inform and influence global development agenda with frontier thinking and

knowledge.

To address the knowledge gaps mentioned above, UNDP and United Nations Office for South‐South

Cooperation (UNOSSC) have recently launched the Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks for SSC

(South‐South Global Thinkers initiative), in partnership with various Southern‐led think tank networks and

private sector entities. The aim of the coalition is to:

build partnership with major think tank networks to deepen the understanding of SSC and TrC,

including its concepts, methodologies, policy issues and solutions for sustainable development;

facilitate a global support platform that connects and enables various networks of Think Tanks

and centres of excellence, to exchange knowledge, pool multidisciplinary expertise, and

collaboratively conduct research and policy dialogues on scaling up SSC and TrC for sustainable

development; and

support capacity development of think tank networks to provide data‐informed analysis and

advisory services to inform policy making and practice in SSC and TrC to accelerate progress in the

implementation of the 2030 Agenda through SSC and TrC.

The Global Coalition of SSC Think Tanks Networks can provide an enabling environment to fill the

knowledge gap that can strengthen the scaling‐up of SSC and TrC and its impact and provide a bridge to

link with SDGs and their implementation. As such, it will contribute to the following:

Strengthening of the global knowledge base: This will be about systematization, collection,

analysis and dissemination of better data and knowledge about patterns, trends, flows,

composition and impact of SSC and TrC (the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘how’ and ‘how well’), within

a framework that will necessarily be demand‐driven and led by Member States. This will help

policy‐makers, practitioners and experts in the South and North to access the information they

need to deploy these modalities of cooperation at country, regional and global levels.

Development research: Following suggestions from Member States, there will be a focus on the

development, testing and steady application of monitoring and evaluation approaches that are

specifically tailored to the principles and conduct of SSC and TrC, a major gap at the moment.

Additionally, through the frequent consultation with think tanks from the north and South other

priority research areas were identified that are of importance to Southern countries which include

SSC concepts, trends and impact assessment, policy coordination and legal environment of SSC,

and the impact of South‐South trade, investment, financing, technology, infrastructure on human

development.

Deepening of global dialogue: The facilitation of and/or technical support to fora where

developing countries and other partners can come together to discuss, debate and build

consensus on priorities, principles, opportunities, performance and peer‐to‐peer learning. This

can only be done effectively on a demand‐driven basis, at the request of Member States

themselves, providing inputs that can help them in their efforts to see how SSC and TrC can best

contribute to Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. A key feature will be to bring Southern and Northern

expert and practitioner knowledge and experiences to the table for experience exchange and

mutual learning.

Support to inter‐governmental fora: This will enable improved monitoring of and guidance to

SSC and TrC within the UN system but also bringing in and influencing other partners as well. The

aim is to connect these fora with global knowledge and expert networks so that they can inform

discussions and consensus‐building.

To date, UNDP jointly with the UNOSSC have formalized six partnerships with Southern think tanks

networks from various regions which include: Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural

Transformation (GReCEST); Silk Road Think Tank Network (SiLKS); Latin America Initiative on Politics and

Public Affairs Studies (ILAIPP)), Southern Voice, Network of Southern Think Tanks (NeST) and Middle East

and North Africa Public Administration Research (MENAPAR) network. The Global Coalition has also

entered into a five‐year partnership with a multinational law corporation from China, Yingke Law Firm,

and the Finance Center for South‐South Cooperation, both of which are supporting this initiative.

II. Objective and expected outcomes: The objective of the 1st Steering Committee meeting is to agree on the roles and responsibilities of the steering committee members and founders and formulate mid‐term and long‐term strategies for the Global Coalition. The expected outcomes of the meeting are as follows: Approve Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Global Coalition Steering Committee and ToR for the

Global Coalition Executive Secretariat

Provide recommendations for the 2018 Annual Work Plan

o Identify and agree on the priority research topics to be conducted by the think tank

networks

o Identify and agree on high‐level policy events and advocacy campaigns at the global

levels

Provide Guidance and recommendations on the financial and operational sustainability of the

Global Coalition

III. Target Audiences

The Steering committee meeting will be open to 25‐30 participants from think tank network members, representatives from UNDP, UNOSSC, funding partners and other invited observing members.

AGENDA

13:00‐13:06 Opening Remarks by the Global Coalition Executives

- Mr. Jorge Chediek, Envoy of the Secretary-General on South-South Cooperation and UNOSSC Director (3 min)

- Dr. Simona Marinescu, Director of Development Impact Group, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP (3 min)

13:06‐14:46 Introduction of think tank network members and research expertise; funding partners

- Ms. Xiaojun Grace Wang, Deputy Director for Programme and Operations, UNOSSC (moderator)

- Ms. Xiuli Xu, Professor of Development Studies at China Agricultural University. key member of China International Development Research Network (CIDRN) and Network of Southern Think Tanks (NeST).

- Introduction by each Think Tank Network and funding partners (5 min each)

14:46‐15:16 Review and approve ToRs for the Steering Committee and the Executive Secretariat for the Global Coalition

Discuss financial and operational sustainability of the Global Coalition

- Dr. Simona Marinescu, Director of Development Impact Group, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP (30 min)

15:16‐15:56 Discuss and identify priority research topics to be conducted by think tank networks

- Ms. Xiaojun Grace Wang, Deputy Director for Programme and Operations, UNOSSC (moderator) (40 min)

Identify high-level policy events that aim to influence policy dialogues on SSC

15:56‐16:00 Launch of the South-South Global Thinkers Platform and closing remarks

- Dr. Simona Marinescu, Director of Development Impact Group, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP

- Ms. Xiaojun Grace Wang, Deputy Director for Programme and Operations, UNOSSC (moderator) (5 min)

Overview of each Think Tank Network and Priority Research Topics

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