India and the UN launch a joint capacity-building initiative for the Global South

India and the United Nations have launched a joint “India-UN Capacity Building Initiative” that goals to share India’s improvement experiences, finest practices and experience with associate international locations within the Global South by means of capability constructing and coaching packages, mentioned a launch from the United Nations.

According to the official launch, the initiative was introduced at an occasion titled “India-UN for the Global South–Delivering for Development” in New York on 23 September 2023 within the presence of the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

The occasion additionally noticed the participation of Dennis Francis, President of the 78th General Assembly, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Prime Minister of Samoa, Tandi Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bhutan, Vince Henderson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy, Dominica, Hugh Hilton Todd, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Guyana.

Maneesh Gobin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius, Alva Romanus Baptiste, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs, St. Lucia, Ahmed Khaleel, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Maldives, Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP, Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Commissioner for India had been additionally current within the occasion.

The “India-UN Capacity Building Initiative” builds upon the in depth cooperation in improvement and capability constructing that India already has bilaterally with its associate international locations, the discharge mentioned.

The India-UN initiative additionally enhances the India-UN partnership within the type of “India-UN Development Partnership Fund” which has developed a portfolio of 75 improvement tasks in 61 international locations within the final 6 years.

As a part of this initiative, the UN India staff and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will associate to leverage India’s Technical and Economic Cooperation platform to share India’s improvement experiences and finest practices the world over.

The launch knowledgeable {that a} Joint Declaration of Intent was additionally exchanged on Sunday between the UN Resident Coordinator in India and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to this impact.

This Initiative can even operationalise the development-relevant deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency, together with the G20 Action Plan for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs, technological transformation and constructing Digital Public Infrastructure, amongst others.

The united nations marked the initiative as a big contribution to international efforts in the direction of accelerating momentum for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by strengthening South-South Cooperation and displays India’s persevering with efforts to strengthen its improvement partnership with the Global South. The launch added that the initiative carries ahead the profitable G20 Presidency of India which noticed inclusion of the voice of Global South into the G20 agenda and entry of the African Union into the grouping.

(This information report is revealed from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content material has not been written or edited by OpIndia employees)