High-Level Forum of Development Cooperation Director Generals: A Global South Approach

The ILO has been featured on the 12th Edition of the High-level Forum of Directors General for Development Cooperation (DG Forum) co-organized by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The twelfth annual DG Forum, held online from 17 to 19 March 2021, brought together the heads of development cooperation agencies and institutions as well as other partners. The DG Forum provided specific recommendations on how to move forward the South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation agenda for sustainable development through actionable and results-oriented solutions, particularly in the context of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to strengthen the institutionalization of South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation for effective implementation of the recommendations in the outcome document of the second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40).  You can read the full report here