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Partners for South-South Cooperation
Partners in South-South Cooperation, formerly Programme for South-South Cooperation PSC, is a development cooperation comprising several developing countries working together towards sustainable development and to fight poverty.[1] Currently Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica are partners in the cooperation and other countries have expressed interest.[2]
Since its inception in 2006 Partners has managed 34 projects in the three countries. [3]
While initial funding was provided by the Netherlands to kickstart the process, the cooperation is run independently by the members who support each other through knowledge transfer and exchange. This is distinctively different from the traditional development approach where developing countries highly depend on expensive and not always adequate Northern expertise and consultants (technical assistance).
Partners's guiding principles are Equality (among members), Reciprocity (between members on each project) and Participation (inclusion of civil society, governments, local authorities, professional associations, businesses, indigenous people). The cooperation emphasizes economic and social development and environmental protection within the prioritized sustainable development themes - water, agriculture and biodiversity.
Partners supports innovation through seeding initiatives, replicating successes, establishing transnational partnerships and disseminating information in five thematic areas:
- Sustainable tourism
- Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- Access to sustainable energy and efficient energy use.
- Sustainable chains of production and consumption.
- Gender equity (as cross-cutting theme).