The voluntary Conceptual Framework (CF) for the measurement of SSC, was developed by countries of the global South and adopted by the UN Statistical Commission and the General Assembly in 2022. It came as a response to the request of Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation to all development actors to support initiatives for information and data collection, coordination, dissemination and evaluation of South-South cooperation (SSC).  It was also “requested that further work on this, including on global reporting and capacity building, be enabled by the co-custodianship of UNCTAD and be led by countries from the global South, building on country-led mechanisms”.

Consequently, a United Nations Development Account Project on measuring SSC was set up to meet these needs. Led by UNCTAD, UN Statistics Division and four UN Regional Commissions, jointly with partners in the UN system, the project intends to support seven pilot countries (among which Namibia) in Africa, Asia and Latin America to measure the financial and non-financial modalities of SSC to inform and target policy actions with the aim to manage and mobilize resources for efforts to achieve the SDGs.

Accordingly, UNECA, in collaboration with UNCTAD is organizing a national workshop in Namibia to advance the process both as country capacity building on the subject and as an opportunity to collect countries view on the practicality of the materials supporting the measurement of south-couth cooperation.

Purpose of the workshop 
The objectives of the workshop are (i) to strengthen the capacity of national agencies in Namibia to identify, measure and report on South-South cooperation flows as contributing factors to the 2030 Agenda, (ii) to engage national agencies in Namibia involved in South-south cooperation initiatives and (iii) to establish the basis for SSC data collection and processing in the country.