Reverse Linkage

20 REVERSE LINKAGE More recently, IsDB has joined UNOSSC in mapping the SSC capacities of IsDB member countries and disseminating the information widely, thus facilitating a better understand- ing of those capacities and the tapping of the latter by those in need. IsDB is also participating in UNOSSC-organized annual Global South-South Development Expos, including their leadership forums, and effectively contributing to the policy dialogues on SSC being pursued at these events. While continuing the partnership in these areas, UNOSSC and IsDB are planning to develop, in the foreseeable future, joint knowledge products on SSC in a consumable format so that best practices can be shared with partners as widely as possible. A complementary area to be covered would be the crafting of joint capacity development programmes on SSC. This will entail, among other items, the strengthening of SSC National Coordinating Authorities (NCAs) leading to a joint capacity development programme that would identify key issues and needs being faced in advocating and operationalis- ing the use of SSCmodalities in developmental, environmental and humanitarian activities at national and intercountry levels. In this and other fields of endeavour, both partners in devel- opment would, admittedly, be facing challenges – both new and familiar – but their experiences together in the support and promotion of SSC have taken them far enough to know that the journey ahead is possible, endurable and worthwhile. Mapping of South-South cooperation solutions in the Arab States, Europe and the CIS Developed with the support of IsDB and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2013–2014, a solutions mapping portal was designed and operationalised to provide access to successful development solutions from the Arab States and to support UN agencies and national stakehold- ers in the region by enhancing their capacities to share and source successful replicable solutions. Further partnership support from IsDB allowed the expansion of coverage to the Europe and CIS region during 2015, as well as maintaining constant populating of the portal in 2016 and 2017. Development actors from the public and private sectors as well as civil society institutions in the regions were encour- aged to contribute to South-South knowledge exchange by sharing their successful, homegrown solutions in various sectors of development, including rural and agricultural, ICT, healthcare, education, and women’s rights. To provide wider High-level ministerial meeting in Antalya, Turkey, organized for the partnership initiative on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development and Enhanced Food Security, jointly supported by the Islamic Development Bank, the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development Image: UNOSSC