Name: Global South-South Development Academy

Status: IGO/NFP

Co-founders: SU/SSC and Development Gateway

Type of Venture: JOV Partnership between SU/SSC and Development Gateway

Interim Host: Development Gateway

Brand Products: Southern-grown Development Solutions (SDS) or “Made in South”

Strategy: Mergers & Acquisition (partnership)

By the end of 2009, the GSD Academy shall be formally established as an independent international not-for-profit organization registered under and governed by the laws of the United States for such an entity.

Once formally established, the GSD Academy shall be governed by a Board of Directors, which would elect a Chairperson who would serve in this function for a 3-year term, with the possibility of being re-elected for a second term.

The entities or organizations which signed a General Long-term Engagement Agreement (for a minimum period of 3 years) to host and perform the functions of the Academy’s Six Core Business departments would automatically become members of the Board of Directors.

The Board shall appoint a full-time President for a 4-year term, with the possibility of being re-appointed for a second term. The day-to-day operation of the Academy shall be run by a Secretary-General appointed by the president, with the endorsement of the Board. A compact Secretariat shall be established to support the work of the Board of Directors, the President and the Secretary-General in discharging their respective roles in the management, coordination and operations of the Academy.

In the interim period, the UNDP Administrator would be ideally invited to serve as the Academy’s Honorary Chairman of the Board, with the President of the Development Gateway as the Academy’s Interim President. The SU/SSC shall serve as the Interim Secretariat, with its Director serving as its Interim SG.

The GSD Academy will have six coordinating and functional “Institutes” (not necessarily house in one pace), each shall be headed by an Executive Director. The core business and functions of each Institute are described below (more detailed TOR for each of them will be developed later):

1. Institute for South-South Learning (Host: VDA-LC/UNDP; other partners: Madrid University, NCPPP, IP3):
   • Basics of SSC & triangular cooperation (VDA/UNDP)
   • Academic programmes (Madrid University, World Trade University, others)
   • Practice training modules (NCPPP, IP3, other)
2. Institute for South-South Research and Development: (Host: South Centre)
   Three-tier structure:
   • 1st Tier with global, managerial and architectural functionalities (South Centre): Serves as a Command Centre for SS research & development, which hosts and provides a common SS R&D agenda, and interactive SS R&D platform, and a uniformed coding, storing and dissemination system for SDS. It will select topics, assign tasks to member institutions, controls the quality of SDS products produced by member institutions, and disseminate SDS for wider learning and scaling up.
   • 2nd Tier with organizational functionalities (regional, national or thematic/sectoral SDS work), each specializes in one particular regional, a country, a standing theme or sector (e.g. UNDP IPC in Brazil, the SS Research & Development Centre in China, UNIDO’s SS Promotion Centres, Egypt’s Conflict Prevention Centre funded by Japan, the International Research System of the NAM in India, Malaysia’s SS Information Gateway, New Rules Washington DC, NCPPP, World Trade University Global Secretariat, UNDP’s Regional and thematic centres, UNITAR, and other relevant and well-established SS centres of various UN organizations.
   • 3rd Tier with any entities public or private, including CSOs/NGOs), as Voluntary Partners who want to contribute to a particular topic, theme or sector within the common SS R&D agenda set by the Academy (e.g. All UN system and UNDP SSC focal points, all national focal points, interested private sector and CSO entities, institutions of high learning or academic research, media, etc.).
3. Institute for South-South Experts and Technical Exchanges: (Host: SU/SSC’s Knowledge Division in partnership with BDP/UNDP)
   • Refine the Southern Experts Roster System (hardware and system improvement)
   • Manage and expand the SS Roster System from currently 40 to 70 by 2011 (system support & quality control)
   • Technical support to partners interested to create/manage their own Southern Experts Rosters
   • Create a common market for Southern experts for development
   • Monitor the use and performance of Southern experts, through respective roster owners.
4. South-South Statistics Institute: (Host: UNDESA’s Statistics Division, supported by all CEB members under matrix arrangement)
   • Develops/manages a uniformed South-South Resource Flow Databank
   • South-South trade flow (by UNCTAD, ITC, WTO)
   • South-South FDI (UNCTAD, Earth Institute, World Bank, IMF, DESA, regional development banks, relevant national entities and other public sources)
   • South-South development assistance (Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat, OECD/DAC, World Bank, all national focal points, SU/SSC)
   • South-South technology transfer (UNIDO, UNCTAD, other entities)
   • South-South food aid (FAO, WFP, IFAD, others)
   • South-South humanitarian assistance (OCHA, others)
   • South-South education and cultural exchanges (UNESCO)
   • South-South tourism (UNWTO)
   • South-South environmental and energy cooperation (UNEP, UNDP, others)
   • Triangular cooperation resource flows (OECD/DAC)
   • South-South cooperation health, especially in HIV/AIDS and other infectious/communal diseases (WHO, PARHO, UNAIDS, others)
   • South-South in children and education for all (UNICEF)
   • South-South in population (UNFPA)
   • South-South expert exchanges, including scientists, doctors, volunteers, etc. (FAO’s TCDC Experts scheme, Science Corp of Princeton, Cuba, UNV, national Volunteers organizations, others).
5. Institute of South-South Communications for Development: (Host: SU/SSC as interim, later by a reputable institution)
   • Promote the SDS on a global and UN-wide basis (through the creation of a South-South Development Channel for videos, the use of print and other means)
   • Generate demand for existing SDS at all relevant national, regional, global and UN events, including UN Day and the GSD Expo.
   • Organize marketing events in partnership with others
   • Advice the Research and Development Department on new demands for SDS
   • Selects and recommends to the GSD Expo Secretariat the most scalable SDS for consideration.
   • Based on the feedback from the GSD Expo, select and recommend to the SS-GATE and HD Stock Exchange Secretariats the most scalable SDS for consideration and repackaging the same into “Development IPOs” for listing.
   • Follow-up promotion, as a supporting agent of the SS-GATE and HDSX, with a view to providing them with leads of potential financial sponsors.

• The GSD Expo: The products produced by the GSD Academy will be selected to be showcased at the Annual Global South-South Development Expo. The Expo will have its own independent secretariat, whose sole business it is to organize the Expo (detailed TOR will be developed later). It is also tasked to recommend the most scalable and most demanded SDS for re-packaging by and listing as “Development IPOs” by the SS-GATE/HDSX Secretariat.
• The Expo Secretariat is also responsible for (i) assisting SDS-owners to repackage their SDS using a standard format and criteria; (ii) assisting SDS-seeking countries to express interest and where to find SDS from the Academy’s SDS or from the Expo Secretariat; and (iii) soliciting potential SDS-seeking countries as well as potential sponsors to express interest and physically participate in the SS-GATE/HDSX transactions.
• The SS-GATE/HDSX: The SS-GATE and HDSX Secretariat, through its Participating Organizations (Pos), will be responsible for helping clients SDS providers to repackage their SDS into development IPOs. It will also assist SDS-seekers in accessing listed HD IPOs, and express interest in the same, and be physically engaged in the transaction processes. It is also responsible for guiding potential sponsors on how to become a sponsor and get feedbacks on their HD Stock’s performance (results).
• The Policy & Governance Support Platform: The Policy & Governance Support Platform of the Special Unit supports well-structured and organized global and UN-wide South-South deliberations and decision-making processes, namely (a) through the G-77 and China at the intergovernmental level; and (b) the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, a subsidiary organ directly under the General Assembly.
• The work of the GSD Academy and that of its subsidiary Institutes would become direct inputs to these intergovernmental and multilateral deliberation and decision-making processes. The main instruments the Special Unit will use for this purpose include: (a) biennial reports to the HLC; the biennial reports of the Secretary-General on the State of South-South Cooperation; (c) substantive progress reports required by the G-77 for its Ministerial meetings such as the International Follow-up and Coordination Committee (IFCC) conferences every two-three years, as well as its South Summits every five years.
• Scalable SDS produced by the Academy would also have the opportunity to be showcased at the annual United Nations Day on South-South Cooperation of the General Assembly that is held on 19 December each year at the United Nations Headquarter in New York, in addition to being showcased at the annual GSD Expo.
• Goods and services” delivered by the GSD Academy and its subsidiary Institutes, as well as other affiliated entities, would be given the opportunity to promote their substantive and analytical “goods and services” using the various powerful outreach instruments of the Special Unit. These include (a) the annual South Report; (b) Occasional Papers; (c) the South-South Executive Brief Journal, published in partnership with IPS; (d) the South-South in Action published in partnership with MediaGlobal; (e) theme-specific joint publications; and (d) its multimedia South-South Web-TV.
• Priorities and decisions given by these intergovernmental and multilateral organs shall inform the design and focus of the GSD Academy’s SS R&D agenda.

1. GPA with the Co-founder of the GSD Academy (1st level partners)
2. GPA with the Six Institutes (2nd level of partners)
3. GPA with third layer entities (3rd level of partners)
4. GPA between the 1st, 2nd & 3rd level entities

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