T UN aNd M s -s c · Mexico has an extensive background in coop - eration schemes that allow human,...

Towards a Global ParTnershiP for develoPmenT

The UN aNd Mexico’s soUTh-soUTh cooperaTioN

Towards a Global Partnership for Development The UN and Mexico’s South-South Cooperation

United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Montes Urales 440 Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec C.P. 11000, México, D.F. www.mx.undp.org

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission.

The analysis and recommendations of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), its Executive Board, or the United Nations Member States. The views presented in this report are the sole responsibility of its authors.

UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. With offices in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations

“The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion what-soever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations or UNDP concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.”

Editorial design: arte i diseño, S. de R.L. de C.V. Printed in México by: Fotolitográfica ARGO S.A. de C.V. Style correction: Ana María Limón

First edition, 2014 Printed in Mexico

For a list of any errors or omissions found subsequent to printing, please visit our website at: www.mx.undp.org

Directory

United Nations Development Programme

Marcia de CastroUnited Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP

Representative in Mexico

María del Carmen SacasaDeputy Resident Representative

Sebastian HaugGlobal Affairs and South-South Cooperation Specialist

Paola GarcíaKnowledge Management

and Capacity Development Advisor

Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation

Juan Manuel Valle PereñaExecutive Director

Bruno Figueroa FischerGeneral Director

for Technical and Scientific Cooperation

Daniela Borbolla CompeanGeneral Director

Planning and Policy Formulation

Contents

Prologues 7

Acknowledgements 11

In Numbers: UN Support for Mexico’s South-South Cooperation 14

1. Introduction: South-South Cooperation in a Multipolar World 17

2. Mexico’s Dual Role: Recipient and Provider 21

3. UN Collaboration Framework for Supporting Mexico’s South-South Cooperation 27

4. Strategic Partners in Mexico 31

5. The Geography of Mexico’s South-South Cooperation Supported by the UN 32

6. Dimensions of UN Support for South-South Cooperation: Fostering Development Solutions 36

6.1 Supporting South-South Cooperation Schemes 38

6.2 Facilitating Networks 48

6.3 Systematizing Best Practices 50

6.4 Supporting Institutional and Operational Development for South-South Cooperation 52

7. The UN and Mexico’s South-South Cooperation: Perspectives 55

Acronyms 58

Prologue

International development cooperation is an essential instrument of Mexico’s foreign pol-icy by means of which it favours supportive exchanges designed to produce social and economic development, as well as to strength-en relations with the rest of the world. In its dual role as a provider and recipient country, Mexico has an extensive background in coop-eration schemes that allow human, technical and financial resources to be capitalized, and for knowledge to be shared.

One the one hand, Mexico’s experience is particularly relevant in view of the transfor-mation of the global development coopera-tion architecture, the reduction and redeploy-ment of Official Development Assistance, and traditional donors’ financial and fiscal limitations. On the other hand, international economic dynamism has been increasingly concentrated in Middle-Income Countries (MICs), so that “Southern countries” are now making a greater contribution to international development. In this context Mexico is pre-pared to increase its role in the new structure of international development cooperation, in particular by strengthening South-South and triangular cooperation (SSC and TC) schemes.

For Mexico, SSC is a highly beneficial and solidarity-based cooperation model that facil-itates the contextualized exchange of experi-ences and collective learning, and has become a valuable regional development asset. As effective development cooperation requires continuously strengthened institutions and clear coordination mechanisms, the Mexican Agency for International Development Co-operation (AMEXCID), established in 2011, ac-knowledges the challenge linked to its role as coordinator of cooperation efforts. The AM-EXCID is working towards achieving structured planning and an administration focused on results, with solid methodologies as well as transparent registration and inter-institution-al coordination systems.

To position Mexico as a “stakeholder with glob-al responsibility,” strategic partnerships have been established to foster innovative forms of cooperation with a greater scope. The 2014-2019 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) formalizes priority co-operation areas between the United Nations (UN) and the Mexican Government. The UN-DAF’s sixth cooperation area, “Global Partner-ship for Development”, emphasizes UN efforts on SSC. The association with the UN in Mexico offers operational and technical advantages to the AMEXCID and those Mexican institu-tions that aim to both leverage the flow of SSC

Towards a Global ParTnershiP for develoPmenT • The UN aNd Mexico’s soUTh-soUTh cooperaTioN

and TC and expand their related institutional capacities. With the activities falling under the “Global Partnership for Development” coop-eration area, the UN is expected to support efforts to increase the scope and visibility of Mexico’s SSC and, consequently, to strength-en the country’s position as an effective re-gional and global development actor.

In April 2014 Mexico confirmed its commit-ment to global development by hosting the First High-Level Meeting of the Global Part-nership for Effective Development Coopera-tion (GPEDC) and taking over as Co-Chair of this innovative and inclusive mechanism. In the framework of the GPEDC, Mexico has been promoting the principles of effective devel-opment cooperation as a useful tool for the generation of concrete country-level results as well as the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. Mexico will continue to encourage the participation and inclusion of a wide variety of actors and development vi-sions, which, in turn, will allow to maximize the impact of development cooperation.

In this context, the AMEXCID is pleased to present –together with the UN in Mexico and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)– the publication “Towards a Global Partnership for Development: The United Nations and Mexico’s South-South Cooper-ation.”

This publication is based on collaboration initiatives between Mexican Government agen-cies and institutions, primarily from the Fed-eral Government, and the UN to provide more in-depth knowledge of the role played by the UN specialized agencies, programmes and funds in support of Mexico’s SSC. The more general goal is to learn from the whole set of analysed experiences and make proposals to strengthen the strategic association between the Mexican Government and the UN, and thus foster Mexico’s SSC and TC.

Juan Manuel Valle Pereña AMEXCID Executive Director

“The partnership with the UN in Mexico offers advantages, both operational and technical, to promote and stimulate the flow

of South-South and triangular cooperation.”

Prologue

Mexico’s commitment in favour of equita-ble global governance is a fundamental part of the country’s foreign policy. Its active role in building an inclusive multilateral ar-chitecture, one highlights the contribution made by Southern countries to face devel-opment challenges, has led to its increas-ingly significant international leadership. This commitment is embedded in the Na-tional Development Plan, whose fifth axis aims to position Mexico as a country with global responsibility.

Crucial steps in that direction have been tak-en by building a strategic institutional ar-chitecture for international development cooperation. Under the leadership of the Mexican Agency for International Develop-ment Cooperation (AMEXCID), Mexico’s devolpement cooperation that benefits from the advanced solutions as well as the regional and global prestige of dozens of Mex-ican Government institutions is being artic-ulated and coordinated.

In recognition of Mexico’s leadership and the importance given by the United Nations De-velopment Programme (UNDP) to South-South cooperation (SSC) in emerging coun-tries, in 2011 the AMEXCID and UNDP signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement, estab-lishing a strategic partnership to maximize Mexico’s potential as a key international de-velopment actor.

Within that framework, we present the publication “Towards a Global Partner-ship for Development: The United Na-tions and Mexico’s South-South Coopera-tion,” the result of an inter-agency collabo-ration process designed to map the United Nation (UN)’s support for SSC initiatives led by Mexican institutions. This publication provides insights into the UN’s efforts in supporting Mexico’s SSC and identifies op-portunities for joint work with the Govern-ment in strategic areas, such as centres of excellence and the systematization of best practices.

The publication also reflects the voices of the UN’s partners in Mexico and is based on 90 UN initiatives led by 30 Mexican institutions. The analysis highlights the diversity of stake-holders with which the UN has established collaboration partnerships, from federal ministries to decentralized and autonomous bodies, State Governments, judicial entities, and academic institutions. It also demon-strates how the thematic focus of the UN’s support is in line with Government priorities, such as social inclusion, environmental sus-tainability and citizen security.

Internationally, 2014 has been an important year for reflecting upon the advances and chal-lenges of international development cooper-ation, by providing spaces for debate such as the Global Partnership for Effective Develop-ment Cooperation (GPEDC) that promotes reflection on SSC and aims to help defining the implementation mechanisms of the post-2015 development agenda. Mexico is one of the most influential and active stakehold-ers in this process and, in April 2014, hosted the First High-Level Meeting of the GPEDC. In this line, we hope that the publication at hand will not only provide elements for a Mexican reflection on the UN’s role in devel-opment cooperation but also serve as a key input for regional and global debates on the new development agenda.

The publication at hand affirms the commit-ment of the Mexican Goverment, UNDP, and the UN as a whole to promote international development cooperation based on the principles of respect, solidarity and horizon-tality and strengthen Mexico as a stakehold-er with global responsibility. We are pleased to go hand in hand with the AMEXCID in this effort that represents another step towards consolidating the Mexican international de-velopment cooperation system.

Marcia de Castro United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative in Mexico

“The analysis highlights the diversity of stakeholders with whom the UN has established partnerships and shows how the UN’s support for

South-South cooperation is aligned to Government priorities.”

Acknowledgements

This publication was prepared by Nils-Sjard Schulz (Multipolar Network), Paola García (UNDP) and Sebastian Haug (UNDP). We would like to highlight the work and dedication of the South-South cooperation focal points of UN agencies, programmes and funds in Mexico1 who provided substantial input and actively participated in compiling information for this document:

Economic commission for Latin amErica and thE caribbEan (EcLac)•

food and agricuLturE organization of thE unitEd nations (fao)•

intErnationaL civiL aviation organization (icao)•

intErnationaL Labour organization (iLo)•

intErnationaL organization for migration (iom)•

officE for thE coordination of humanitarian affairs (ocha) •

officE of thE unitEd nations high commissionEr for human rights (ohchr)•

Pan amErican hEaLth organization/WorLd hEaLth organization (Paho/Who)•

unitEd nations chiLdrEn’s fund (unicEf)•

unitEd nations dEvELoPmEnt ProgrammE (undP)•

unitEd nations EducationaL, sciEntific and cuLturaL organization (unEsco)•

unitEd nations Entity for gEndEr EquaLity and thE EmPoWErmEnt of WomEn (un WomEn)•

unitEd nations EnvironmEnt ProgrammE (unEP)•

unitEd nations high commissionEr for rEfugEEs (unhcr)•

unitEd nations human sEttLEmEnts ProgrammE (un-habitat)•

unitEd nations industriaL dEvELoPmEnt organization (unido)•

unitEd nations officE on drugs and crimE (unodc)•

unitEd nations PoPuLation fund (unfPa)

1. For purposes of this publication the term agencies is used to re-fer to the UN entities in Mexico.

We are grateful for the support of the Mexican Agency for International Development Coop-eration (AMEXCID) during the preparation of this publication and thankfully acknowledge the feedback provided by the following institutions:

nationaL forEstry commission (conafor)•

nationaL PoPuLation counciL (conaPo)•

mExican WatEr tEchnoLogy institutE (imta)•

nationaL institutE of statistics and gEograPhy (inEgi)•

nationaL migration institutE (inm)•

nationaL institutE for WomEn (inmuJErEs)•

ministry of hEaLth (saLud)•

ministry of thE intErior (sEgob)•

ministry of EnvironmEnt and naturaL rEsourcEs (sEmarnat)•

ministry for EnErgy (sEnEr)•

ministry of Labour and sociaL WELfarE (stPs)•

ELEctoraL court of thE fEdEraL Judiciary (tEPJf)

“Towards a Global Partnership for Development: The United Nations and Mexico’s South-South Cooperation” is a joint effort bringing together the AMEXCID and the UN in Mexico with a common goal: to strengthen Mexico’s South-South cooperation while underlining the UN’s added value and potential to effectively contribute to national and global development goals.

This publication was made possible through UNDP’s Fund for Country-level Emerging Priorities and Innovation (FCEPI). We would like to thank Michael O’Neill, UN Assistant-Secretary General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), and Jessica Faieta, UN Assistant-Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbe-an, as well as their teams for jointly supporting UNDP Mexico’s work on South-South cooperation.

For more details about UN initiatives that support Mexico’s South-South cooperation see:

http://bit.ly/1kDv58e

For more general information visit the following websites:

AMEXCID www.amexcid.gob.mx

UN Mexico www.onu.org.mx

In Numbers: UN Support foir Mexico’s South-South Cooperation2

Led by 30 Mexican institutions, the UN has supported

44 South-South cooperation projects and activities, of which:

are directed towards Latin America and the Caribbean,

24 focus on Central American and Caribbean countries, and

15 are subregional schemes.

In addition, 50 South-South workshops and dialogue forums took place.

In total, the UN in Mexico has promoted more than

90South-South cooperation initiatives.

18 funds, programmes, specialized agencies and commissions of the UN in Mexico have accompanied these initiatives.

2. The majority of the analyzed initia-tives are currently underway. For details on the sources used for this publication see the following page.

’s s

nINFORMATION SOURCES FOR PREPARING THIS PUBLICATION

Following two forums on SSC in September 2013, the UN agencies in Mexico identified the need to collect and systematize their experiences in supporting Mexico’s SSC. Faci-litated by UNDP and in collaboration with the AMEXCID they started to map their SSC initiatives, based on extensive record cards completed by 18 UN agencies that are represented in Mexico and contribute with substantive programmes to the country’s development. In total more than 90 initiatives were shared, of which the vast majority are currently underway. Among those initiatives, 44 SSC projects and activities led by 30 Mexican institutions as well as 50 workshops and dialogue forums were registered. To supplement this data, the authors organized a validation workshop with UN agencies as well as a dozen in-depth interviews with representatives of the AMEXCID, Mexican ministries and other entities as well as UN agencies in February 2014. The inputs collected during this process form the basis for this publication that was made possible by the generous support of the focal points involved.

The publication reflects the effort to provide a first account of the different ways through which the UN supports Mexico’s SSC and is one of the first joint country-level analy-ses of UN SSC activities in the region. Building on this initial exercise, one of the key challenges for the future lies in the systematic documentation and financial quantifi-cation of SSC initiatives supported by UN agencies.

To access the publication and a detailed list of initiatives go to:

http://bit.ly/1kDv58e

1. Introduction: South-South Cooperation in a Multipolar World

Since the beginning of the 21st century southern countries have been experiencing a sustained period of development, allowing hundreds of millions of people to get out of poverty and supporting the consolidation of social and economic development foundations on both national and regional levels. As underlined by the 2013 Human Development Report pub-lished by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the growing group of Middle-Income Countries (MICs) has benefit-ted from economic growth, greater trading opportunities, as well as increasingly sophis-ticated information and communication tech-nologies.

At the same time, developing countries have been able to articulate and consolidate innova-tive public policies on a great variety of issues, from green development and agriculture to social protection and public finances reform. In this context, and in response to structural weaknesses, Southern governments have made progress on modernizing and strength-ening their public sectors, with strategies adapted to their political and institutional

realities. A key ingredient for the South’s suc-cess lies in increasing willingness, commit-ment and capacities to promote development by States and societies that are more compe-tent, better prepared and increasingly re-ceptive for knowledge and experi-ence-based learning.

This new diversity of development has been accelerated by a rebalancing of the global economic system marked by the economic and financial crisis of developed countries since 2008, and by the appearance of a sec-ond generation of emerging economies which, in the last five years, have extended beyond the already “traditional” BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Coun-tries such as Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey are now proof of a multipolar world in which the MICs have an accumulated capital of ex-periences and solutions on how to promote sustainable human development in such di-verse areas as social protection, transport, public health, natural disaster risk manage-ment, and national statistic systems.

In this dynamic context, South-South coop-eration (SSC) has been playing a key role in shaping the future of the international devel-opment system, both in policies and in prac-tice. While there are various definitions of SSC in inter-governmental agreements at both

global3 and regional4 levels, this publication uses a working definition taken from the Unit-ed Nations (UN) High-Level Panel on South-South Cooperation that refers to South-South cooperation for development as

“a process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources and technical know-how, and through regional and interregional collec-tive actions, including partnerships involving Governments, regional organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, for their individual and/or mutual benefit within and across regions.” 5

Deeply rooted in the solidarity movement of non-aligned countries during the Cold War and supported by the UN, SSC is expe-riencing a period of growth thanks to the extensive social and economic progress made by developing countries as well as their willingness to share their experiences and knowledge with partners and peers. Beyond the financial and investment flows originating from Brazil, China and other countries (particularly oil-producing econ-omies), most SSC schemes are focusing on the exchange of knowledge, mutual learn-ing and the transfer of experiences and specialized solutions. Based on their suc-cessful public policies, emerging econo-mies and other MICs representing more limited markets have become vital sources of ideas and solutions to promote develop-ment in other countries.

Against this backdrop it is no surprise that SSC, and in particular knowledge exchange, has positioned itself as a model of horizon-tal association between Southern countries. Its starting point tend to be confidence, eq-uity and mutual benefit among the partners involved, thus enriching traditional North-South aid relations. While countries have maintained their South-South ties for de-cades, and more recently have promoted triangular cooperation (TC) with traditional donors,6 there is a great potential to fully in-clude these cooperation modalities in the global development system, particularly de-signing and implementing the post-2015 de-velopment agenda. Also, as shown by the following overview, there are a range of ref-erence frameworks that guide and reflect the significance of SSC within the global de-velopment agenda.

3. Paragraphs 5-8 of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Coopera-tion among Developing Countries (1978); paragraphs 9-19 of the Final Document of the Nairobi Confer-ence (2009); section 1 of the Bogota Report “Towards Efficient and In-clusive Development” (2010); and paragraphs 30-31 of the Busan Part-nership for Effective Development Cooperation (2010).

4. In particular the definitions in the Ibero-American South-South Coop-eration Reports of the Ibero-Amer-ican General Secretariat (since 2008).

5. Paragraph 9, Framework of Opera-tional Guidelines on United Nations Support to South-South and Trian-gular Cooperation, Note by the Sec-retary-General, SSC/17/3 (2012).

6. According to Article 4 of Mexico’s International Development Coop-eration Act (LCID), Triangular Coop-eration is a “cooperation modality in association with a bilateral or mul-tilateral traditional source, in order to jointly concur in actions in fa-vour of a third demanding nation at a lower or similar level of relative development.” For purposes of this publication we refer to “UN support for Mexico’s SSC” in order to recognize Mexico’s leadership and the evolving role of the UN –be-yond its status as a multilateral tra-ditional source– regarding the de-velopment cooperation Mexico provides.

International South-South Cooperation Reference Framework

Source: Authors.

E BUENOS AIRES PLAN OF ACTION (1978)

The Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Coopera-tion among Developing Countries, a crucial milestone for SSC, was adopted by 138 states on the 12th of September 1978.

E NAIROBI OUTCOME DOCUMENT (2009)

The Outcome Document of the High-Level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation in Nairobi (2009) underlines the UN’s key role supporting SSC through all its funds, programmes, specialized agencies and regional commissions.

E UN HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE ON SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

The UN High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly and the main normative entity regarding South-South Cooperation within the UN.

E HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Within the broader framework of defining the post-2015 development agenda, the High-Level Panel explicitly considers the contribution of South-South cooperation and knowledge exchange to reaching the new development goals, particularly in thematic areas with a clear demand of experiences from Middle Income Countries.

E GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Stemming from the High-Level Forum in Busan (2011), the Global Partnership for Effec-tive Development Cooperation (GPEDC) reflects a greater attention to South-South cooperation and the proactive role of Middle-Income Countries in global develop-ment. The First High-Level Meeting of the GPEDC took place in April 2014 in Mexico

The publication at hand is embedded in this dynamic global context. It analyses from UN agencies’ support for SSC schemes led by Mexican institutions and identifies elements to improve both the scale and quality of this multilateral effort. Facilitated by UNDP, this process originates from reflections within the UN on mechanisms and methods of col-laborating with the Mexican Government in its extensive political, institutional and oper-ational commitment to SSC. In this line, the publication is also part and proof of the close collaboration between UN agencies and the AMEXCID as the governing body of Mexico’s SSC.

2. Mexico’s Dual Role: Recipient and Provider

Mexico looks back on a long history as an in-ternational development cooperation part-ner and has implemented multiple pilot proj-ects in order to gradually adapt the country’s approach to a changing national and interna-tional context. Over the last years Mexico’s role as a dual partner has come to the fore-front, reflecting its identity as both a recipi-ent and provider of development coopera-tion. As one of the most innovative countries in building this new identity, Mexico is not only a pioneer in advanced models for mobi-lizing and channelling external sources of de-velopment financing (on climate change, for example) but has also designed a series of in-novative SSC and TC models primarily direct-ed towards Latin America and the Caribbean.

UN support provided to Mexico’s SSC direct-ly responds to the country’s policy priori-ties. In line with Mexico’s 2013-2018 Nation-al Development Plan (PND), SSC is a foreign policy tool for a “Mexico with Global Re-

sponsibility” (fifth axis), aimed at “expand-ing and strengthening Mexico’s presence in the world,” with the AMEXCID as the key ac-tor in the implementation and coordination of Mexico‘s international development coop-eration.

The publication of the International Develop-ment Cooperation Act (LCID) in the Official Gazette of the Federation in April 2011 was a milestone as it anticipates the instruments needed to consolidate Mexico’s policy on the issue and thus extend the scope and impact of SSC initiatives. Drafted within a consen-sus-based and inclusive consultation process, the LCID establishes the goals,7 principles8 and guidelines aimed at guaranteeing (1) that SSC complements the countries’ own devel-opment efforts, (2) the self-sustainability of development processes, and (3) the involve-ment of the recipients of Mexico’s SSC through co-financing and other schemes where all stakeholders contribute.

7. The eradication of poverty, unemployment, inequality, and social exclusion; the permanent raising of educational, technical, scientific and cultural standards; the reduction of asymmetries between developed countries and developing countries; the pursuit of environmental protection and the fight against climate change; as well as the strengthening of public security.

8. International solidarity, the defence and promotion of human rights, the strengthening of the rule of law, gender equity, the promotion of sustainable development, transparency and accountability, and the criteria for appropriation, alignment, harmonization, results-oriented management and mutual responsibility.

Regarding the institutional framework for Mexico’s international development cooperation, the LCID anticipates the following instruments:

MEXICAN AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (AMEXCID)

E COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY

The AMEXCID was set up in September 2011 as a decentralized body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE). Over the course of three years, it has initiated transformation and reengineering processes aimed at responding to both the Act’s provisions and the needs imposed by a continuosly changing national and international context.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROGRAMME (PROCID)

E BASIS FOR PLANNING AND EXECUTING DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION SCHEMES

The PROCID is the cross-cutting programmatic framework for Mexico’s development cooperation. It applies to several Federal public administration entities, reflecting the fact that Mexico’s development cooperation in general and the successful implementa-tion of cooperation projects in particular depend upon collaboration between minis-

NATIONAL FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (FONCID)

E TRUST FUND FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

The setup of the FONCID will allow to improve the planning of development cooperation projects and increase their impact. It is currently being developed and expected to be set in motion in 2015.

NATIONAL REGISTRY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (RENCID AND SICID)

E TOOL FOR MONITORING AND REGISTERING DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

The RENCID and SICID build on previous efforts of the SRE to monitor and register development cooperation, such as the International Cooperation Data System (SICOI) and the Mexican International Development Cooperation Data System (SIMEXID). They will allow to register projects, agreements, partner institutions, monetary va-lues and other data related to Mexico’s development cooperation.

Source: Authors.

In this favourable context, the AMEXCID’s role is particularly relevant regarding inter-secto-rial coordination and the support for institu-tional and operational capacities of ministries and other Federal entities that as develop-ment solutions providers, contribute to how Mexico’s ‘brand’ is perceived abroad. The main vehicles and resources of Mexico’s de-velopment cooperation are sectorial ex-perts from Government institutions offer-ing their knowledge, experience and con-textual sensibility for the benefit of other countries in the region. Within this con-text, the 2012 Catalogue of Mexican Capaci-ties for International Development Coopera-tion, published in collaboration with the Jap-anese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is the Goverment’s first exercise to gather expertise from various Mexican insti-tutions with great potential and capacity to participate in international development co-operation schemes. The Catalogue covers areas such as environment, education, en-ergy, government and civil society, as well as agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

In addition to database on international de-velopment cooperation, the AMEXCID is con-solidating a methodology to account for human, financial and technical resources in development cooperation. At the same time, the AMEXCID is implementing an institution-al capacity building strategy supported by partners such as the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ), JICA, and UNDP. Regarding the geographic focus of Mexico’s SSC, the LCID establishes Central America and Latin America and the Caribbean priorities.

Bilaterally, most projects are designed for ca-pacity building and institutional strengthening in key sectors of the partner country. Re-gionally, high-impact projects implemented under the Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project and those financed by the Infrastructure Fund for Mesoamerican and Caribbean Countries are particularly relevant for Mexico’s development cooperation. The Infrastructure Fund, also known as the “Yu-catán Agreement,” is a reflection of Mexico’s commitment to Latin America. It was an-nounced in 2001 and officially launched in March 2012 as a regional cooperation mech-anism to finance infrastructure pro-grammes and projects and to support tech-nical assistance as well as the commercial exchange of goods and services associated with infrastructure.

With certain countries there has been a shift towards horizontal cooperation programmes, where benefits and costs are equally shared. These bilateral schemes have been particular-ly relevant in South America and the Asia- Pa-cific region as well as under the umbrella of programmes in Mesoamerica and Ibero Amer-ica. The Joint Cooperation Funds that Mexico has set up with Chile and Uruguay are em-blematic mechanisms facilitating horizontal cooperation. Recently, efforts have been made to also apply this scheme with Costa Rica. In terms of TC Mexico has positioned it-self as a promoter of debate and reflection and a strategic partner for the benefit of Lat-in American and Caribbean countries. During 2012 Mexico was involved in 23 triangular projects, mostly in association with Japan, Germany, Spain, and South Korea.

GraPh 1 MEXICO’S SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION PROJECTS

QLatin America and the Caribbean: 153

QRegional: 18

QAsia-Pacífic: 17

QAfrica: 1

Note: In total Mexico provided 212 SSC projects in 2012.

Source: AMEXCID’s 2012 internal activities report.

Different factors determine the role Mexico has assumed as a bridge and facilitator in the debate on the global development coopera-tion architecture. It is essential to acknowledge the variety of Mexico’s roles as provider and recipient, its identity as a MIC, as well as its membership in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and specifically, as an observer on the organi-zation’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).

Finally, Mexico has also promoted capacity building and knowledge exchange in the framework of the Group of 20 (G20) develop-ment agenda, during its G20 presidency in

2012. Mexico’s active engagement with in-ternational development cooperation and the post-2015 development agenda has been reflected discussions in the frame-work of the OEDC and the UN, particularly in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and the Ibero-American Summit. In the context of the Global Partnership for Effec-tive Development Cooperation (GPEDC), Mexico is leading the debate on SSC and TC as well as the role of MICs in the changing inter-national development cooperation land-scape. In April 2014 Mexico hosted the First High-Level Meeting of the GPEDC and took over as one of its Co-Chairs.

’s so

3. UN Collaboration Framework for Supporting Mexico’s South-South Cooperation

The 2014-2019 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) establishes the basis for the joint work of the UN and the Government of Mexico and responds specif-ically to the country’s development chal-lenges. Via its cooperation area VI “Global Partnership for Development” the UNDAF highlights the UN’s willingness to contribute to Mexico’s responsible and proactive role on the international level. Specifically, accord-ing to effect 13 of the UNDAF, “the Mexican Government will have strengthened its posi-tion as an effective regional and global de-velopment partner for which it will have con-solidated a pertinent international coopera-tion platform.”

In addition to the UNDAF, various UN agen-cies also have SSC reference frameworks es-tablished by their headquarters and regional offices (see Graph 2). These general frameworks provide multiple opportunities to ensure that regional and global SSC guidelines can be translated into national strategies adapted to the country’s priorities, above all those in line with the UNDAF.

Particularly UNDP already has a history of sup-porting Mexican SSC capabilities. The Collab-oration Framework Agreement, signed in 2011 between the Government of Mexico and UNDP, aims to ensure synergies between Mexico as an international development partner and UNDP’s national, regional and global pro-grammes.

UNDP: Signature of the AMEXCID-UNDP Cooperation Programme (Mexico City, March 2013).

GraPh 2 SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION STRATEGIES AND FRAMEWORKS OF DIFFERENT UN AGENCIES

ECLAC: Based on resolutions adopted in 2004, ECLAC’s Regulatory and Operational South-South Cooperation Frameworks seek to raise the profile of SSC in the Commission’s strategic and operational work, and to support the direct link between supply of and demand for development solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

UNICEF: In 2011 UNICEF headquarters published a Programme Guidance Note on South-South Cooperation that pays special attention to the role of Middle Income Countries. The document is used as a central reference in the 2014-2018 UNICEF Mexico Country Programme.

UNFPA: Adopted in 1997 and updated in 2010, UNFPA’s South-South Cooperation Strategy became the starting point for the SSC strategy of its regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012. In both cases UNFPA defines its position as a broker between demand for and supply of development solutions.

ILO: Adopted in 2012, ILO’s strategy “South-South Cooperation and Triangular Cooperation: The Way For-ward” anticipates, inter alia, promoting the exchange of knowledge fo cused on decent work and improving operational capacities to implement SSC schemes.

UNDP: The Collaboration Framework Agreement signed with the Government of Mexico in 2011 provides the basis for UNDP’s support in strengthening institutional capacities of the AMEXCID, identifying Mexican centres of excellence, and promoting Mexico’s active participation in multilateral develop-ment dialogues.

Note: “Global Partnership for Development” is the cooperation area VI in the 2014-2019 UNDAF.

Source: Authors.

’s so

The Agreement is now also the framework for more consistent collaboration with a view to strengthen Mexico as an international devel-opment partner. The AMEXCID-UNDP Coop-eration Programme, a joint capacity build-ing project set up under the Agreement, includes support for systematizing good practices and strengthening centres of excel-lence. Since UNDP has signed similar agree-ments with six other emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey), there are many opportunities for a fluid and constant dialogue between the AMEXCID and development cooperation agen-cies of other countries supported by UNDP.

In June 2013, the UN agencies in Mexico iden-tified UNDP as the lead agency on SSC. In this context, UNDP started mapping Mexican SSC initiatives supported by UN agencies and, in February 2014, convened the first meeting of the UN Inter-agency Group on SSC. In collabo-ration with the AMEXCID the Inter-agency Group will offer a space to coordinate the con-tributions of UN agencies to Mexico’s SSC.

UN Mexico: Inter-agency Group on South-South Cooperation (Mexico City, February 2014).

The South-South cooperation initiatives supported by the UN are linked to the

6 areas of the 2014-2019 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) in Mexico:

ECLAC • FAO

• IC

AO •

• IO

A • O

HCHR • P

AHO/WHO • U

N-HABITAT • UN Women • UNDP • UNEP • UNESCO • UNFPA • UNH

CR • UN

ICEF • UNIDO • UNODC

• OCH

A • O

HCHR • UN-HABITAT • UN Women • UNHCR • UNICEF • UNO

• PA

HO • UN-HABITAT • UNDP • UNESCO • UNFPA • UNICEF

ECLAC • IOM • UNDP • UNIDO

ICAO • UNDP • UNEP

4. Strategic Partners in Mexico

UN SUPPORT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MEXICAN PARTNERS

The process of preparing this publication included a consultation process with representatives from several Mexican institutions. The meetings and interviews brought to light the extensive record of entities such as the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the Minis-tries of Health and Environment, and the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Fede-ration (TEPJF) regarding their regular exchanges with counterparts in other countries. In many cases, their SSC trajectories began over 15 years ago. Among the current challenges these Mexi-can institutions face are sectorial strategic planning, access to financing and coordination, both within the Government and with bilateral and multilateral agencies. At the sectorial level multilateral support is perceived as part of a natural alliance, anchored in historic relationships of joint work on specific development issues.

Mexican stakeholders perceive a range of advantages from UN agencies SSC support, inclu-ding institutional and operational capacity development: mobilization and expansion of net-works and regional dialogue spaces; the possibility of receiving logistical support in other countries; and the deft handling of financial resources. Looking ahead, Mexican institutions expect UN agencies to collaborate in the growing scale of SSC, accompanying the establishment of centres of excellence, ensuring a better flow of information and supporting results-based management in Mexico’s international development cooperation.

GraPh 3 THE UN’S STRATEGIC PARTNERS IN MEXICO FOR SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION INITIATIVES

QDecentralized and autonomous bodies : 13

QMinistries: 10

QAcademic institutions : 3

QState Governments : 2

QJudiciary: 2

Note: This graph refers to the 44 SSC projects and activities (see Chapter 6).

Source: Authors.

5. The Geography of Mexico’s South-South Cooperation Supported by the UN

Most partners of Mexico’s UN-supported South-South cooperation schemes are coun-tries in the region. Of the 44 analysed proj-ects and activities, 37 are directed towards Latin America and the Caribbean, 24 focus on Central America and the Caribbean and 15 are sub-regional. At the same time, initia-tives have also been undertaken with coun-tries in Africa and Asia.

Mexico’s international development coopera-tion has focused mainly on the Mesoamerican region. In this line, UN support for Meso-american programmes and strategies on the following topics has been particularly rele-vant: monitoring and evaluating compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (AMEXCID, supported by UNDP); road safety (Ministry of Health, supported by PAHO/WHO); food security (AMEXCID, in collaboration with FAO); assistance to vulnerable migrants (Min-istry for the Development of the Southern Border of the Chiapas State Government, with support from the international Organiza-tion for Migration, IOM); and environmental

sustainability (CONAFOR, together with UNDP).

As for bilateral projects, two have been de-veloped with Haiti (supported by ECLAC, together with the College of Mexico and IN-EGI, respectively); two with Nicaragua (Min-istry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Devel-opment, Fisheries and Food, SAGARPA, sup-ported by FAO); with the Dominican Repub-lic (Ministry of the Interior, SEGOB, together with UNDP and UNODC); and with Hondu-ras and Panama (in each country, one initia-tive of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, SEMARNAT, supported by the United Nations Envitonment Pro-gramme, UNEP).

’s s

GraPh 4 GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS

Note: Countries in blue are part of at least one UN-supported SSC initiative that has been initiated by or includes Mexico. Mesoamerica (small blue circle) as well as Central America and the Caribbean (bigger blue circle) are geographic priorities of Mexico’s UN-supported SSC schemes.

Source: Authors.

14 projects and activities have focused on wider geographical areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. Of those ten include the whole region and two relate to specific groups of South American countries. The Ibe-ro-American area plays a role in a range of projects and activities, such as the fight against human trafficking and migrant smuggling (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SRE, with UNO-DC), and the Forums on Migration and Devel-opment (AMEXCID with UNHCR) as well as Habitat (Centre for Housing and Urban Studies, CENVI, with UN-HABITAT). Brazil and Colombia are partners in bilateral projects in South America promoted, among others, by UNICEF (Seguro Popular 9) and UNFPA (local planning, with the Puebla State Government).

Besides two global projects led by UN-HABITAT to promote exchange between cities on eco-nomic development and public safety, the UN has also contributed to SSC projects and activ-ities with countries in other regions. This is reflected in the work of UNICEF to coordinate missions and visits of delegations from China (the Ministry of Health on restructuring the health sector), Vietnam (the AMEXCID and other institutions on protecting ethnic mi-norities) and Morocco (the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Pol-icy, CONEVAL, on measuring multidimension-al poverty).

Finally, it is worth noting that most initiatives supported by UN agencies involve several countries, often with a distinctly subregional character, in both Central and South America. Without underestimating their valuable contri-butions to bilateral relations, this concentra-tion on multi-country projects and activities appears to be in line with the potential of many UN agencies to simultaneously mobilize and facilitate exchanges between different governments, through coordination with oth-er country offices and facilitation by re-gional offices (see Graph 6). This aspect of the UN’s contribution has the potential to effec-tively complement the strong concentration of Mexico’s development cooperation on bilat-eral and triangular projects (92% of the total of 212 projects in 2012, see chapter 2), in order to increase the weight of regional and multi- country schemes.

9. Seguro Popular is Mexico’s public health insurance scheme.

’s s

San Jose • COSTA RICAIOM

Panama City • PANAMAFAO, OHCHR, UN Women,

UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, UNICEF

Mexico City • MEXICOECLAC, ICAO, UNIDO

Washington • USAPAHO/WHO

Santiago de Chile • CHILEECLAC, FAO, UNESCO

Lima • PERUILO

Rio de Janeiro • BRAZILUN-HABITAT

Source: Authors.

GraPh 5 REGIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL OFFICES OF UN AGENCIES

6. Dimensions of UN Support for South-South Cooperation: Fostering Development Solutions

Support from UN agencies for SSC refers to actions that promote, facilitate and catalyse SSC schemes led by developing countries. This type of support has been focusing on techni-cal aspects, a task mostly undertaken by mul-tilateral organizations offering services and resources to member countries. For this pub-lication four key dimensions of multilateral support –particularly relevant for UN SCC support have been identified (see Graph 6).

UNICEF: Signature of the Cooperation Agreement between UNICEF, ProMéxico and the AMEXCID for the setup of a project on recruiting

potential suppliers on both national and regional levels (Mexico City, August 2012).

UN Women: Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding on gender statistic and indicators between SRE, INEGI, INMUJERES and UN Women (Mexico City, November 2013). See http://saladeprensa.sre.gob.mx/index.php/comunicados/3404-444

Supporting SSC schemes

Includes technical and/or financial collaboration of UN agencies regarding (A) projects, (B) regional schemes, (C) one-off activities and (D) workshops

and forums, all led by partner governments.

Systematizing best practices

Related to knowledge management, this refers to mapping, documenting and preparing success-ful policies and practices in order for them to be shared with or transferred to other countries.

Facilitating Networks

Refers to establishing and fostering networks and communities of institutions and individuals, and may consist of connecting the demand for and supply of knowledge between countries

(brokering).

Supporting institutional and operational development for SSC

Consists of contributing resources and strategies to develop institutional and operational arrange-ments of Government entities implementing SSC (including development cooperation agencies and departments of ministries), in areas such as planning, monitoring and evaluation, designing cooperation modalities, and human resources

management.

GraPh 6 DIMENSIONS OF UN SUPPORT FOR COUNTRY-LED SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

Source: Authors.

6.1 Supporting South-South Cooperation Schemes

A. Projects

The mapping exercise that provides the basis for this publication(see page 14) identified 22 SSC projects directly supported by UN agen-cies. The United Nations Food and Agricul-ture Organization (FAO) has used this modali-ty extensively with a total of five projects, fol-lowed by the Programme of the United Na-tions for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) with three, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Pan-American Health Organization/

World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and UNDP with two projects each. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the International Labour Organiza-tion (ILO), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Edu-cational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) have each developed one project.

GraPh 7 TYPES OF DIRECT UN SUPPORT FOR MEXICO’S SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

QForums and workshops: 50

QProjects: 22

QRegional schemes: 11

QOne-off activities: 11

Note: Overall 94 initiatives were registered.

Source: Authors.

UNODC: Presentation of the project “Promoting cooperation between Mexico and Central America to prevent and combat the illegal trafficking of migrants” (Mexico City, April 2013).

FAO AND UNDP - NATIONAL FORESTRY COMMISSION (CONAFOR)

Implemented by the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) with support from UNDP and FAO, a major component of the project “Strengthening the preparation process of REDD+ in Mexico and promoting South-South cooperation” focuses on experience sharing and SSC with countries in Central America to develop their National Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Systems. In this line, and in coordination with the AMEXCID, collaboration has been promoted with the Central American Integration System (SICA) and Colombia, particularly regarding the development of the Mesoamerican Environmental Sustainability Strategy that is part of the Mesoamerica Project. As central component of a broader SSC strategy, the project aims at contributing to the development of a Virtual Centre of Excellence dedicated to forest mo-nitoring, training workshops, experience and knowledge exchange, interagency agreements and specialized technical assistance shared among countries in the region. Set up for a duration of four years, the project has a SSC budget provided by the Government of Norway.

FAO - NATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE (INAPESCA)

An example of a bilateral project is FAO’s support for restructuring lobster dive fishing in Nica-ragua, involving experts from Government authorities and fishermen from both countries. This ongoing intervention has allowed to engage with other Mexican institutions, including the National Water Commission (CONAGUA) and the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA).

fosTerinG develoPmenT soluTions

“South-South collaboration between the Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics, ECLAC and INEGI aims to develop indicators for economic conditions in Haiti and serve as a statistical tool to track changes in the economic sector. We believe that this initiati-ve allows the country, the authorities and other institutional stakeholders to make quick decisions based on direct access to information on how the economy evolves.”

Randolph GilbertCoordinator and Haiti Focal Point, ECLAC

OHCHR - JUDICIARY

The OHCHR focuses its efforts on reproducing Mexico’s consolidated experience in the process of implementing the methodological framework on human rights indicators in the judiciary branches of Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. The publication “Constructing Human Rights Indicators: Regional Experiences” summarizes this experience and was launched in 2013 both at the Human Rights Council in Geneva and, through Mexico’s SRE, during the ECOSOC meeting in New York. The successful processes of monitoring the right to fair trial in Mexico’s Federal District as well as the States of Nayarit and Tamaulipas will be replicated across the country, thanks to the leadership of the National Superior Tribunals Commission. On the federal level a similar process has been initiated with the National Supreme Court and the Federal Judi-ciary Council. The above-mentioned methodology has also informed the monitoring of rights foreseen under the San Salvador Protocol, in the framework of the Inter-American Human Rights System.

ECLAC: Visit to the State of Zacatecas in the framework of a project with Haiti and the Colegio de México on the experience of the remittances programme “3x1” (Zacatecas, April 2013).

B. Regional Schemes

A second form of direct SSC support consists of regional cooperation schemes provided or facilitated by the UN that contain a SSC com-ponent, for example facilitating exchanges and technical cooperation between various participating Government institutions. In this category overall 11 initiatives were reported –by UNEP and UNODC (two initiatives each)

as well as by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), IOM, PAHO/WHO, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), UNDP and UNESCO.

UN WOMEN - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHY (INEGI) - NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN (INMUJERES)

Initiated fifteen years ago, the tripartite collaboration between UN Women, the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) and INEGI focuses on gender statistics to support public poli-cies aimed at achieving equality between women and men. From 2006 onwards, this continuing effort has led to inter-institutional collaboration providing input to national exchanges in the framework of the ECLAC Statistical Conference of the Americas (CEA). The programme acti-vities of the CEA Working Group on Gender Statistics, chaired by INEGI, have been of particular relevance, with ECLAC’S Division for Gender Affairs in charge of the technical secretariat and INMUJERES and UN Women providing technical assistance. This cooperation modality has allowed the systematization of experiences and the horizontal transfer of best practices on gender statistics (mainly on time use and unpaid work, violence against women and poverty measurement). In late 2013 the SRE joined this partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding that formalizes and strengthens Mexico’s SSC on gender statistics.

UNESCO - MINISTRY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION (SEP)

In the framework of the Regional Teachers Strategy UNESCO and the Ministry of Public Edu-cation (SEP) have actively collaborated on knowledge development, based on the experience of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to consolidate the goals formulated under the Quality Education for All umbrella, both parties aim to generate input and best practices that provide a platform for the design and implementation of education programmes. In this line, UNESCO and the SEP have set up the necessary conditions for an exchange between Ministers of Education in the region and other relevant stakeholders. This exchange informs Latin America and the Caribbean’s Post-2015 Education Agenda that accounts for the region’s edu-cation-related challenges and tackles topics like citizenship and culture of peace education.

OIM - MINISTRY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER (CHIAPAS)

The objective of the “Regional Capacity Building Programme for the Protection of and Assistan-ce to Vulnerable Migrants in Mesoamerica” is to strengthen capacities to protect and assist vulnerable migrants, through both (1) direct assistance tools with capacity building sessions directed at migration officials, border police, civil society organizations (CSOs) and shelters, and (2) improving the in-kind attention capacities. The Programme responds to necessities and objectives identified by the Regional Migration Conference and brings together seven countries: Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. At the same time the Programme supports the improvement and harmonization of best practices regar-ding migrant services through organizing the Tapachula-San Marcos trans-border forums; creating spaces for strengthening networks; and holding regional workshops. fo

FAO - MEXICAN AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (AMEXCID)

Signed in May 2014 between FAO and the AMEXCID, “Mesoamerica Without Hunger” aims to foster food and nutrition security in the Mesoamerica region as a complement to the coope-ration between member states (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama). Its main goal is to widen and strengthen member state capacities and to help establish conditions that allow projects to provide con-crete benefits for the societies in question. For the implementation of this regional initiative the AMEXCID has established a cooperation framework with the regional offices of six UN agencies: FAO, PAHO/WHO, UN Women, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Food Programme. Together, these agencies have suggested that “Mesoamerica Without Hunger” should prio-ritize the following four areas of action: (i) Political commitment and governance of food and nutrition security; (ii) appropriate nutrition; (iii) strengthening of family farming; and (iv) re-ducing vulnerabilities. Based on this multi-agency agreement, FAO and the AMEXCID have signed a Cooperation Framework Agreement that aims to support the design and implemen-tation of projects on both national and Mesoamerican levels focusing on public policy in the fields of food and nutrition security, family farming and rural poverty.

C. One-Off Activities

In addition to projects and regional coop-eration schemes, the UN supports Mexi-co’s South-South cooperation also by means of one-off activities such as exchange

and capacity-building missions. In this cate-gory 11 initiatives –in particular supported by UNDP, UNEP, UNICEF and UNODC– have been identified.

“UNDP’s effort to establish a platform for exchange of experience and knowledge between electoral management bodies (EMBs) in Tanzania and Mexico will have a crucial impact on democratic reform at both EMB and country levels. (...) The more EMBs cooperate and exchange experiences and knowledge the more their skills are enhanced and they become more resilient and efficient in executing their mandates.“

Jecha Salim JechaChairman, Electoral Commission of Zanzibar, Tanzania

UNDP: Exchange between the electoral management bodies of Mexico and Tanzania (Tanzania, February 2014).

“UNICEF has facilitated South-South collaboration between Morocco and Mexico in the area of social development in favour of vulnerable populations including children. This project is very relevant for the National Human Development Observatory (ONDH) since its goal is to establish cooperation between ONDH, CONEVAL and UNICEF in evaluating social development programmes, identifying poverty measurements, and exchanging experiences and experts in the area of social development. ONDH wishes to continue collaborating with CONEVAL and UNICEF to improve the situation of people in poverty conditions in both countries.”

Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah ONDH President, Morocco

UNICEF: Exchange between CONEVAL and the National Human Development Observatory of Morocco (Morocco, May 2012).

D. Forums and Workshops

Complementing their direct support to SSC, UN agencies facilitate and/or accompany re-gional and global forums and workshops in which the Mexican Government has played a leading role. For this publication 50 SSC forums and workshops supported by UN agencies in Mexico were reported. Institutions with highly specialized expertise such as the INEGI and the TEPFJ indicate that they participate in some 80 regional and global dialogue events each year. At times these forums lead to further bilateral or multi-country partnerships to ex-change experience in a more structured way.In addition, multilateral agencies often play a role of input suppliers or brokers that allow the discussions to continue beyond one-off exchanges. This form of cooperation can be

seen in UNHCR’s contributions to the Regional Migration Conferences, and in the role of PAHO /WHO regarding dialogue spaces on health. Both organizations contribute with contacts, knowledge and strategic contents to these forums that have the potential to propel long- term action plans with SSC components.

PNUD: Closing Session of the First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, hosted by the Mexican Government through the AMEXCID (Mexico City, April 2014).

UNICEF: First Regional Meeting on Child-

hood and Adolescence Indicators (Mexico City, September 2011).

6.2 Facilitating Networks

In addition to direct SSC support, the UN facil-itates networks to strengthen knowledge sharing and link supply and demand. UNEP and UNFPA have established two key exam-ples of structured platforms that collect solu-

tions from certain countries and connect them with the demand of others. In both cases, facilities are provided by the agency’s regional office while the office in Mexico en-dorses a liaison role.

UNEP - REGATTA

Since 2011, the UNEP REGATTA programme connects key institutions and centres of excellence for climate change in areas such as agriculture, energy, transport and climate financing. 23 specialized Mexican institutions are involved in the REGATTA programme, mainly represen-ting Federal Government institutes, research centres and CSOs.

UNFPA - SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION PLATFORM

UNFPA recently launched a regional platform for SSC on issues related to population policies. In this framework –and in line with what it has done with other development cooperation agencies in Latin America– UNFPA seeks to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the AMEXCID in order to allow Mexico to strategically contribute to and benefit from the platform. This would allow the coordinated participation of specialized Mexican entities in this area, such as the National Population Council (CONAPO) and State Governments.

“UNFPA’s South-South cooperation platform is an important tool that helps countries to get familiar with each other and identify both the good experiences that all of our countries have as well as the challenges we are still facing in the region. In one way or another, the platform will thus contribute to closing gaps and supporting local development.“

Karin KramerPresidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia

UNFPA: First Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on South-South Cooperation (Panama, April 2013).

6.3 Systematizing Best Practices

GraPh 8 OPPORTUNITIES FOR SYSTEMATIZING BEST PRACTICES

National Institute for Women (INMUJERES):

Advances in women’s political participation; budgets with gender focus; the production

and analysis of information on violence against women and femicide.Mexican Agency for International

Development Cooperation (AMEXCID):

Advances in the humanitarian assistance architecture

National Migration Institute (INM):

Experiences of Beta Groups on Humanitarian Assistance to Migrants.

Centre for Housing and Urban Studies (CENVI):

Capacities of urban communities, through an Ibero-American forum.

Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF):

Electoral justice experiences.

Ministry of Public Administration (SFP):

Designing corporate integrity incentives in the fight against corruption.

National Statistics and Geography Institute

(INEGI): Surveys on victimization and crime classification.

National Population Council (CONAPO):

Experiences and solutions concerning population policies and practices.

Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

(STPS): Experiences of the System

for Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement.

Source: Authors.

Knowledge management and the generation of best practices are crucial prerequisites and the foundation for SSC. Clearly identified and systematized development solutions ready to be transferred are key for engaging in mean-ingful SSC schemes with partners and peers in other countries. The process of turning an implicit experience (related to individual) into explicit knowledge (documented and ready to be shared, independent of individ-ual experience) is a central challenge for SSC. On the one hand, the desire to make SSC grow may clash with the limited number of

experts and Government officials who are available and capable of sharing the country’s development solutions. On the other hand, however, systematizing experiences may lead to better results-based management based on more formal knowledge-transfer methodologies. The UN has the necessary in-struments and capacities to become a key support for systematization processes, build-ing on both its sectorial-thematic networks as well as relevant experience and reputation to guarantee the quality of best practices identified by the Government.

“The advice and experience transferred by Mexico’s Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement System (SIMAPRO) through the ILO in Mexico helped us to adapt it quickly to the Chilean context, and to avoid making the same mistakes, in spite of the fact that we adapted Mexico’s experience to another sector: fruit. Being part of the regional network on the issue keeps us up to date, provides a great oppor-tunity to incorporate and share best practices, and, above all, serves as an effective communication mechanism on innovation.”

Rodrigo LópezGeneral Manager

of the Fruit Export Training Institute of Chile

“Mexico’s experience with the Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement System (SIMAPRO) in the sugar industry allowed us to easily assimilate it as we were dealing with a similar context. The flexibility of the methodology also allowed us to focus on aspects that could be more easily integrated into our work – particularly its philosophy: the social dialogue on improving productivity and working conditions.“

Juan Wright Noé NerioCouncil President of the El Angel Secretary-General, El Angel Sugar Mill, El Salvador Sugar Mill Labour Union

6.4 Supporting Institutional and Operational Development for South-South Cooperation

Regarding the UN’s support for institutional development for SSC, a couple of agencies are already working with Mexican Government entities on their SSC capacity. Embedded in the 2011 Collaboration Framework Agreement, the joint project between the AMEXCID and UNDP aims at strengthening the Agency’s institutional capacity and consists of three components:

1) Strengthening the AMEXCID’s immediate institutional capacity by supporting the implementation of the RENCID, the national registry system that re-cords relevant aspects of Mexico’s international development cooperation;

2) Identifying Mexican institutions with widely recognized experience on the transfer of knowledge and practice to strengthen them as centres of excellence for international development cooperation, based on UNDP’s experience in countries such as Brazil, Singapore and Turkey; and

3) Systematizing best practices and public policies to facilitate strategic knowled-ge transfer.

UNDP: Conference on South-South cooperation with representatives from the AMEXCID, the UN, civil society and development cooperation agencies (Mexico City, September 2013).

“The efforts of the Centre of Excellence to implement this meeting exemplify its work on strengthening country capacities regarding victimization surveys.”

Salomé Flores Sierra FranzoniCoordinator, INEGI-UNODC Centre of Excellence

UNODC: First meeting of the Working Group on Security and Criminal Justice Statistics in the framework of the ECLAC Statistics Commission of the Americas, organized by the INEGI-UNODC Centre of Excellence

(Mexico City, August 2013).

UNODC - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS AND GEOGRAPHY (INEGI)

A flagship example for UN support to the institutional setup for SSC is the collaboration bet-ween UNODC and the INEGI, where the latter hosts the joint “Centre of excellence on gover-nment statistics, public security, victimization and justice”. This initiative is consolidating the INEGI’s role as a provider of practical solutions on a regional-level in areas such as victimiza-tion surveys as well as security and criminal justice statistics. In this line, the Centre has an immediate impact on the Institute’s capacities to articulate and lead associations with peers from other countries.

“PAHO/WHO’s support allows us to share knowledge and methodological tools to connect scientific knowledge with the development of policies and programmes. The concrete expression of this support is reflected in both one-off support initiatives to other countries and the creation of networks on specific issues such as climate change or atmospheric contamination.”

Dr. Horacio Riojas RodríguezDirector of Environmental Health

PAHO/WHO Collaboration Centre on Environmental Epidemiology National Public Health Institute

PAHO/WHO - COLLABORATING CENTRES

In 2013 PAHO/WHO launched a network of collaborating centres with nine Mexican institu-tions based on the historic cooperation with Mexico’s health science and research entities. These centres usually lead and contribute to research initiatives and best practices shared with institutions in other countries in Latin America and beyond.

7. The UN and Mexico’s South-South Cooperation: Perspectives

Emerging economies and other MICs are currently devoting considerable efforts to strengthening their institutional and opera-tional capacities in order to implement interna-tional development cooperation with greater scope and impact. As an emblematic example of this commitment, the Mexican Government is assuming a proactive and responsible lead-ership on both regional and global levels, in the midst of a development system in full trans-formation. Multiple initiatives and ongoing processes aiming to lay the foundations for Mexico’s SSC architecture reflect this commit-ment. Mexico’s willingness to assume leader-ship originates directly from the country’s identity as a dual stakeholder that, on the one hand, receives international assistance in strategic areas, and, on the other hand, increasingly contributes to tackling regional and global development challenges.

At the same time, this commitment is embed-ded in and shaped by a context that provides the historic opportunity of reformulating in-ternational development partnerships in order to obtain more solid and visible input from emerging economies. This is relevant for both

the new global development goals that are currently being defined in the framework of the post-2015 agenda, as well as new ways of doing development cooperation that are ex-amined in the framework of international platforms such as the GPEDC. Mexico is in a favourable position to help design mecha-nisms and contents adapted to the opportu-nities of a multipolar world which, in turn, would allow to improve the country’s capaci-ties to deal with extensive pending challeng-es on the domestic level, in areas such as in-equality, green growth and social protection.

In this context, the UN agencies’ support for Mexico’s commitment to regional and global development is particularly relevant. UN agencies offer multiple advantages in sup-port of Mexico’s SSC based on their close links to an extensive set of issues and niches. In light of current plans of various agencies represented in Mexico, this added value may take shape even more extensively and stra-tegically in the future. Increasing inter-agen-cy articulation and coordination between the UN and the Mexican Government concerning SSC help to facilitate this dynamic process

Towards a Global ParTnershiP for develoPmenT • thE un and mExico’s south-south cooPEration

THE UN HAS ADDED VALUE THANKS TO ITS:

E Comprehensive coverage of sectors and issues relevant for the country.

E Alignment with national priorities highlighted in the International Development Cooperation Act, the PROCID, the National Development Plan and Sectorial Plans.

E In-depth penetration in specialized networks on national, regional and global levels.

E Connecting function between supply and demand (brokering).

E Support for Mexican entities through “quality seals” for the develp-ment solutions they offer.

E Extensive operating structures through regional hubs and offices in other countries.

E Support for institutional and operational development at the sectorial level, particularly through centres of excellence.

and are reflected in the joint publication at hand. The outcome of a fruitful interaction of multiple stakeholders (the AMEXCID, ministries and other Federal entities, as well

as UN agencies), this pioneering exercise has detected various dimensions of the added value that comes with UN support to Mexi-co’s SSC.

UN Support for Mexico’s South-South Cooperation

Looking ahead, UN agencies have an exten-sive potential to reinforce their support for Mexico’s SSC by designing sectorial cooper-ation strategies and ensuring greater coor-dination among agencies in support of spe-cific sectors and issues under the leadership of the Mexican institution in charge. Togeth-er the agencies can also structure and shape the already-initiated path of interagency di-alogue on SSC. Particulary mapping and co-ordination exercises are likely to strengthen the links with the AMEXCID as the govern-ing body of the Mexican development coop-eration system. Some of the contributions that may be of particular value include estab-lishing sectorial information centres, ensur-ing the flow of information and data on joint SSC schemes as well as accompanying the

AMEXCID s support for intersectorial coor-dination.

The reflection on the future trajectory of UN support to Mexico’s SSC is embedded in a context of solid leadership by the Mexican Government in coordinating, planning and fi-nancing SSC as a whole (through the AMEX-CID) and in executing and learning about SSC initiatives in practice (through Federal minis-tries and other Mexican entities). This per-mits to closely and strategically align multi-lateral activities with Mexico’s SSC. Both the general political commitment and the secto-rial variety of development solutions strengthen Mexico’s SSC system for the ben-efit of partners and peers in Mexico’s fellow nations.

Acronyms

AMEXCID Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

CENVI Centre for Housing and Urban Studies (Centro de la Vivienda y Estudios Urbanos)

CONAFOR National Forestry Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal)

CONAPO National Council of Population (Consejo Nacional de Población)

CONEVAL National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social)

CSO Civil Society Organization

DAC Development Assistance Committee

ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

ECOSOC United Nations Economic and Social Council

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FONCID National Fund for International Development Cooperation (Fondo Nacional de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

G20 Group of Twenty

GIZ German International Cooperation Agency (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)

GPEDC Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization

ILO International Labour Organization

IMTA Mexican Institute of Water Technology (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua)

INAPESCA National Fisheries Institute (Instituto Nacional de Pesca)

INEGI National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía)

INM National Institute of Migration (Instituto Nacional de Migración)

INMUJERES National Institute for Women (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres)

IOM International Organization for Migration

JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

LCID International Development Cooperation Act (Ley de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

MDGs Millennium Development Goals

MICs Middle-Income Countries

OCHA Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

PAHO/WHO Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization

PND National Development Plan (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo)

PROCID International Development Cooperation Programme (Programa de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

RENCID National Registry for International Development Cooperation (Registro Nacional de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

SAGARPA Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación)

SEDESOL Ministry of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social)

SEGOB Ministry of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación)

SEMARNAT Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales)

SFP Ministry of Public Function (Secretaría de la Función Pública)

Sicoi International Cooperation Data System (Sistema de Información de Cooperación Internacional)

SIMAPRO System for Integrated Measurement and Improvement of Productivity (Sistema Integral de Medición y Avance de la Productividad)

SIMEXCID Mexican International Development Cooperation Data System (Sistema de Información de México sobre la Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo)

SRE Ministry of Foreign Relations (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores)

SSC South-South Cooperation

STPS Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaría de Trabajo y Previsión Social)

TC Triangular Cooperation

TEPJF Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación)

UN United Nations

UN Women United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNFPA United Nations Population Fund

UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization

UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

T UN aNd M s -s c · Mexico has an extensive background in coop - eration schemes that allow human,...

Documents

Transcript of T UN aNd M s -s c · Mexico has an extensive background in coop - eration schemes that allow human,...

Courses ASC unites Fellows in effort to address regional challenges · 2019. 1. 27. · completed the Advanced Security Coop-eration course (ASC 16-1) May 4 at the Daniel K. Inouye

The role of green ICT in enabling smart growth 18 2012 · plary green ICT solutions, greening ICT and other technology clusters, and clarifying the limits of coop- eration. Increasing

Web Developer Outsourcing Offer - PHP developers …...Web developer outsourcing How it works CUSTOMER 3 CUSTOMER 1 CUSTOMER 2 (8 senior developers) You decide how long the coop-eration

Chapter 9 Strengthening Strategic International …Patimban Port and the North Java trunk railway line in Indonesia, while signing a memorandum of coop-eration with Myanmarʼs Ministry

Chapters114 Introductory Chapter 1 Chapter 1 assumptions that are less ideal —for example, with international coop-eration that emerges slowly or only restricted availability of

Treatment, Design, Injuries, Surgical Therapy SportS and ... · world in the scope of an Indian friendship and coop-eration program. This symposium is designed to be more than just

WILDLIFE AND FOREST CRIME€¦ · Identiﬁes where resources should be channeled; Stimulates awareness, donor support and international coop-eration; Enables evidence-based capac-ity

Questvertising - a new perspective to online …...SWPS University in consultation with IAB Polska and in coop-eration with Adquesto. Reactions of over 1,400 people were studied, who

AHEADapp1.hkicpa.org.hk/APLUS/2014/09/pdf/Sept-full.pdf · to attend a two-day exchange meeting with the Guangzhou Institute of CPAs to reinforce the coop-eration between the two

When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter ......Germany in particular, and their Asian ally misses regional nuances and the growing coop-eration in speciﬁc domains

Development of the Tally Station · This report is written as documentation for Admir Habota's thesis project in coop-eration with ABB Corporation in Esbjerg. The project is chosen

'Tender Is The Night' Deborah Garges. Chosen· For Senior Prom · signed the banner and the post ers. The nine stores working in coop eration with the Senior Class are: Benton's ,

Message of the Ambassador of France on coop - eration ... · Industry Services Q4 Q1 2012 2013 1.1 5.3 8.4 4.9 8.9 6.5 3.3 10.9 7.0 CONTRIBUTIONS TO GDP GROWTH (IN %) 2013 Q1 Source:

LowerBoundsfortheDecayofCorrelationsin Non ... · ( Projet International de Coopération Scientifique), Propriétés statistiques des systèmes dy-namiques detérministes et

Capitalized Nouns

CAPITALIZED INVENTORY PROCEDURES - NOAA · PDF file1 . CAPITALIZED INVENTORY PROCEDURES . Step by Step Procedures for Generating Capitalized Inventory (Note: If you get

Sff WLOG GRRDES €ffSr€RN WNItE PIN€ - fs.fed.us · PDF fileIn 1955 the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, in coop- eration with the State University of New York College

Inspiring Creativity4 european territorial coop eration INSPIRING CREATIVITY Facts & Figures We analysed 55% of the ETC programmes. The analysed programmes funded 583 55% culture and

THE TITLE OF THESIS. CAPITALIZED,

th State Counsellor returns from ASEAN summit in AustraliaMar 21, 2018 · the Crans Montana Forum on Africa and South-South Coop-eration, met Ambassador Jean Paul Carteron, honorary