GLOBAL SOUTH-SOUTH DEVELOPMENT EXPO 2018
EVENT STRUCTURE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

New York, 27-30 November 2018

 

 

Types of Sessions and Activities:

 

 

DAY 0 – Tuesday 27 November
Pre-Expo Discussion and Satellite Side Events

9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Side Event: UNOSSC Independent Annual Comprehensive Report on South-South CooperationUN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Room: Doha Conference Room, UNOSSC, 304 East, 45th Street

9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Side Event: Round Table on Making the Case for a Bigger Role for South-South Cooperation in Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals that Impact ChildrenUnited Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Room: Danny Kaye Room, UNICEF House, Ground Floor, 3 United Nations Plaza

10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Side Event: Asia-Pacific Directors General Forum: Review of Regional South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Context of the BAPA+40 ConferenceGovernment of Indonesia, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), UNOSSC Asia-Pacific

Room: Conference Room 12, United Nations Secretariat

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Side Event: Fifth Regional Networking Forum for the Arab States and the Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States regionsUNOSSC ASECIS

Room: Email GSSD Expo Secretariat for information

1.15 – 2.30 p.m. Side Event: Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration through South-South CooperationInternational Organization for Migration (IOM)

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 6.00 p.m. Side Event: South-South Global Thinkers: The Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks for South- South Cooperation. Second Steering Committee MeetingUNOSSC, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Room: Doha Conference Room, UNOSSC, 304 East 45th St., 11th floor

3.00 – 6.00 p.m. Side Event: Inclusive Partnerships for South-South Cooperation: Accelerating the 2030 Agenda through Traditional and Innovative Modes of Development CooperationUNDP

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

 

 

DAY 1 – Wednesday 28 November

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

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

10:10 – 11:30 a.m. Thematic Solution Forum 1: South-South Cooperation in Poverty Eradication and Livelihood Recovery in an Age of Technological RevolutionUNDP

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

11:50 a.m. – 1.10 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 2: South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Good Practices for Decent Work on ILO Flagship Programmes and Cross-cutting Policy Drivers towards BAPA+40ILO

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

12.45 – 2.00 p.m. Lunch Break – Sponsored by the India, Brazil, South Africa Facility for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation

Room: Vienna Café, United Nations Secretariat

1.00 – 2.00 p.m. Special Event: India, Brazil and South-Africa (IBSA) Fund – 15 year Anniversary Celebration and Report Launch

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

1.15 – 2.00 p.m. Side Event: Knowledge Creation and Sharing for South-South and Triangular CooperationUNOSSC

Room: Conference Room E, United Nations Secretariat

1.15 – 2.30 p.m. Side Event: Triangular Cooperation in the Era of the 2030 Agenda: Contributions to the BAPA+40 ConferenceGlobal Partnership Initiative on Effective Triangular Cooperation (GPI)

Room: Conference Room 7, United Nations Secretariat

2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Side Event: South-South Cooperation-Partnerships Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Scale Resilience and Renewable Energy Goals for SIDS through the SAMOA Pathway frameworkUNDP, Island Resilience Partnership, and GridMarket

Room: Amartya Sen Conference Room, 10th FL, FF-BLD, 304 E 45th Street

2.00 – 3.10 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 3: Innovative Financing Mechanisms for South-South and Triangular CooperationPermanent Mission of India to the UN, UNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

3.20 – 4.40 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 4: Youth Entrepreneurship for Sustainable DevelopmentUNOSSC, UNESCO, UNV

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 4.30 p.m. Side Event: Intergovernmental Organizations on Promoting and Scaling Up Good Governance through South-South Cooperation and Triangular CooperationCommonwealth Secretariat, UNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

5.00 – 6.20 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 5: Promoting Sustainable Development through Engaging Youth and Women in South-South CooperationUN Environment (UNEP)

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

6.30 – 8.00 p.m. Welcome Reception and Talk Show: Launch of Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation Exhibition and Report Volume 2 in 6 UN languages

Room: Vienna Café, United Nations Secretariat

 

 

DAY 2 – Thursday 29 November

9.00 – 10:20 a.m. Thematic Solution Forum 6: South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Sustaining Peace and Promoting Inclusive DevelopmentUNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

10.40 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 7: From Fragility to Resilience in Rural Settings: The Role of South-South and Triangular CooperationFAO, IFAD, WFP

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

9.30 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. Side Event: Regional interactive dialogue of the Latin American and Caribbean countries on the priorities of the region, with a view to the Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South CooperationUN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Room: Conference Room 4, United Nations Secretariat

12.00 – 1.30 p.m. Lunch Break

Room: Vienna Café, United Nations Secretariat

12.00 – 1.30 p.m. Side Event: Launch of the UNFPA Volume of South-South in ActionUnited Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Room: UNFPA Headquarters, 605 Third avenue, New York, NY 10017

1.15 – 2.30 p.m. Side event: Ten Years and 7,000 Projects: Evidence and Instruments of SSC to Achieve the SDGs in the Context of BAPA+40 – Launch of the Book “A Decade of SSC in Ibero-America” – Ibero American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and Ibero-American Programme for the Strengthening of South-South Cooperation (PIFCSS)

Room: Conference Room 8, United Nations Secretariat

1.30 – 2.50 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 8: Private-sector Partnerships for Inclusive and Sustainable South-South CooperationAsia Foundation, UNOSSC Asia-Pacific, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 4.20 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 9: South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Promoting Green Growth and Sustainable Cities – Sustainable Urban-Industrial Development along the “Belt and Road”United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), UNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 4.30 p.m. Side Event: Alliance of NGOs and CSOs for South-South Cooperation Event on Uniting for Action at BAPA+40 and BeyondUNOSSC and ASSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

4.40 – 6.00 p.m. Thematic Solution Forum 10: Leveraging South-South and Triangular Cooperation to Deliver Health OutcomesPan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), UNFPA

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

 

 

DAY 3 – Friday 30 November

9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. High-level Forum of Directors General for Development Cooperation Towards BAPA+40: The Role of Practitioners in Scaling Up the Impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – UNOSSC, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

9.00 – 10.20 a.m. Side Event: Francophone stakeholders networking in South-South and tripartite cooperation, on the way to BAPA+40International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF),UNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

10:00 – 11:45 a.m. Side Event: The Republic of Korea (ROK)-UNOSSC Facility: Innovation in Practice, Challenges and SolutionsGovernment of the Republic of Korea, UNOSSC Asia-Pacific

Room: Conference Room A, United Nations Secretariat

10.30 – 11.50 a.m. Side Event: Impact Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation for South-South and Triangular Cooperation Initiatives: A Discussion on Potential Approaches and MethodologiesUNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

12.00 – 1:15 p.m. Side Event: The Case of South-South Cooperation for Peace and DevelopmentUNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

12:45 – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break

Room: Vienna Café, United Nations Secretariat

12.45 – 2.00 p.m. Side Event: Promoting the Ecosystem for South-South Cooperation in AfricaUNDP Regional Service Centre in Africa

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat

1:40 – 3.00 p.m. Side Event: Special Introductory Session on the Establishment of the World Green Economy OrganizationWGEO

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 4.30 p.m. Side Event: Promoting South-South Cooperation in Science and Technology for Sustainable DevelopmentCommission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF), United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing (UN-OHRLLS), UNOSSC

Room: Conference Room 11, United Nations Secretariat

3.00 – 5.00 p.m. Side Event: Public Service Innovations through South-South NetworkGovernment of Bangladesh, UNOSSC, Astana Civil Service Hub (ACSH)

Room: Conference Room 8, United Nations Secretariat

5.00 – 6.00 p.m. GSSD Expo 2018 Closing Ceremony

Room: Conference Room 1, United Nations Secretariat