SouthSouth Cooperation and PublicPrivate Partnership for Development by Bader Al Dafa Under Secretar

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South-South Cooperation and Public-Private
Partnership for Developmentby Bader Al
DafaUnder Secretary GeneralExecutive Secretary,
UNESCWAOctober 2007
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CONTENTS

• South South Cooperation Overview
• SSC in the ESCWA Region Opportunities
  and Challenges
• Potential Areas of Cooperation
• Public Private Partnerships
• Role of Governments
• Private Sector Involvement
• Role of ESCWA in SSC
• Operational Framework
• Key Activities

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1. South South Cooperation (SSC) Overview

• Cooperation among developing countries, in range
  of fields, for the transfer of knowledge, goods,
  skills, technologies, and good practices
• Complementary, not a substitute, to NorthSouth
  Cooperation
• Builds on notion that developing countries share
  common concerns and expertise
• Mobilizes under-utilized resources (human,
  financial natural) in countries of the South to
  meet development goals including MDGs
• Broad Scope includes cooperation between
  governments, public-private partnerships, and
  civil society organizations.

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2. SSC in the ESCWA Region

• Well Rooted in the Region
• First Regional Preferential Trade and
  Investment Agreement (1957)
• Arab Multilateral and Bilateral Development
  Banks/Funds have contributed over 80 Billion in
  development assistance in 30 yrs
• Qatar established The South Fund for Development
  and Humanitarian Assistance and pledged US 20
  million
• Intra-regional Trade reached 92 billion (11.4
  total), Investment flows 5.8 billion, ODA 15
  billion

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2.SSC in the ESCWA region (contd)

• Opportunities
• Significant Increase in Intra-regional trade
• Promotion of Regional Blocs GAFTA, GCC, Arab
  Common Market
• Increase in inter-regional initiatives, economic
  cooperation and trade with Asian, African and
  Latin American countries.
• Challenges
• -Low Intra Arab Investments
• -Few Regional Preferential Trade and Investment
  Agreements (8 in total as compared to
  39 in Latin America)
• -Conflict and political instability
• -Corruption and unfavorable business environments

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3. Potential Areas for SSC

• Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
• Infrastructure (roads, bridges, public utilities)
• Information and Communication Technology
• Water Management
• Energy Alternative Energy Resources
• Transport Tourism
• Social and Economic Policy
• Agriculture and Rural Development

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4. Public Private Partnerships A Tool for SSC

• Important tool used within the SSC framework,
  often referred to as Triangular Cooperation, to
  promote development especially for the
  construction of infrastructure and the delivery
  of services.
• Utilizes the expertise, efficiency and funds from
  the private sector and the legal authority and
  strategic vision of the public sector.
• Requires
• - Institutional and legislative reforms in each
  country
• - Dynamic and innovative private sector which is
  able to contribute to economic development

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4A. Role of Governments
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4B. Private Sector Involvement

• Undertake Private joint ventures in
  non-traditional sectors
• Promote networking among private sector
  organizations
• Promote partnerships in the areas of education,
  science and technology
• Strengthen business-to-business (B2B) relations

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5B. Key ESCWA Activities

• 1. Trade
• Enhance inter-regional trade
• Raise awareness on trade issues, trends, best
  practices
• Prepare member countries on trade negotiation
  issues
• Assist in the Integration of capital markets
• 2. Foreign Direct Investment
• Promote policies to attract FDI and mobilize
  domestic resources
• Implement FDI database project in ESCWA member
  countries.
• 3. Tourism
• Promote cooperation in south south projects

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• 4. Information and Communication Technology
• Partnership initiative on Broadband for
  Development and Arabic domain.
• 5. Water and Energy
• Support the Arab Integrated Water Resources
  Management Network
• Launch of Arab Water Utility Association and
  establishment of Arab Water Council
• Electrical Grid Interconnection
• 6. Transport
• Development of the Integrated Transport
  System-ITSAM
• Maritime Transport Cooperation

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