Emerging economies have a long experience in providing development cooperation. Emerging economies expect their good practices in development cooperation to be recognised internationally and would like to see them inform the discussions on a post-2015 development agenda and the future of development cooperation.

The Delhi Conference yielded consensus among Southern partners, including the emerging economies to take a proactive approach in the elaboration of a post-2015 development agenda. The same message also emanated from a meeting of policy makers and thinks thanks in January 2013 in Shanghai. At both events participants recognised the need to more clearly articulate the principles, modalities and practices enshrined in South-South development cooperation and to show that these are also critical for the effectiveness of global development cooperation.

The panel discussion explored in particular two sets of questions:

1) The ‘What’: What are the principles, modalities and practices of South-South development cooperation that contribute to sustained development impact? To what extent are these principles, modalities and practices relevant for the development cooperation of other stakeholders? 

2) The ‘How’: How can such principles, modalities and practices be systematised and agreed in order to inform the post-2015 development agenda? What is the role of think tanks and what is expected from governments?

Format

The discussants provided brief inputs (6 minutes) around the questions outlined above before the floor will be opened for a moderated discussion (moderator: Stephan Klingebiel, Head of Department “Bi- and Multilateral Development Policy” at DIE).

Panelists:

• Sachin Chaturvedi, Research and Information Systems
• Jorge A. Pérez Pineda, Instituto Mora  Li Xiaoyun, China Agriculture University
• Paul-Simon Handy, Institute for Security Studies (tbc.)
• John Rwirahira, Institute of Policy Analysis and Research Rwanda