Funding South-South and triangular cooperation at the United Nations: what do we know?

Haug, Sebastian / Weinlich, Silke
External Publications (2023)

in: Dag Hammarskjölf Foundation / UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office (Hrsg.), Financing the UN Development System: Choices in Uncertain Times, New York City: Dag Hammarskjölf Foundation and UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, 190-197

ISBN: 978-91-987398-4-8
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At the United Nations, South–South cooperation provides a broad discursive umbrella for collaboration among developing countries, while triangular cooperation refers to partnerships where ‘developed country(ies)/or multilateral organisation(s)’ support South–South schemes. Although its actual extent and significance is often hard to grasp in quantitative terms, South–South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) has become an increasingly prominent modality for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. This article offers a first mapping and appraisal of SSTC funding patterns at the UN. We suggest that increasing the availability of systematic data would represent a key step towards understanding the contours of UN engagement with SSTC and raising the visibility of SSTC funding in debates about UN finance.

About the authors

Weinlich, Silke

Political Science

Haug, Sebastian

Political Science