South-South and Triangular Cooperation The rich diversity of the
South provides an excellent opportunity for forging mutually
beneficial partnerships to work towards economic growth,
industrial development and poverty reduction. Since the 1978
Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing
Technical Cooperation among developing countries, South-South
cooperation has been steadily gaining momentum and has shown
encouraging trends. The outcome document of the 2009 High-level
UN Conference on South-South cooperation held in Nairobi, Kenya
acknowledged the roles that national governments, regional
entities and UN agencies are to play in supporting and
implementing South-South and Triangular Cooperation. South-South
cooperation is a methodology of development which facilitates
the exchange of knowledge, experience, technology, investment,
information and capacity between and among Southern countries
through governments, civil society organizations, academic
institutions, national institutions and netwo