South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean:
ways ahead following AccraSouth-South cooperation has gained prominence in global development policies as a result of its inclusion in the Accra Agenda for Action, the September 2008 agreement which reinforces the aid effectiveness principles of the Paris Declaration. This opens up an important forum for encouraging South-South cooperation as a mechanism for horizontal learning and for promoting the development of national capacities. However, strengthening South-South cooperation at the conceptual and operational levels still poses major challenges, as does improving the measurement of its scale and impact. Website (URL): http://www.fride.org Author(s): María Clara Sanín Betancourt, Director, Enlaza Colombia and Nils-Sjard Schulz, Senior Researcher, FRIDE




