The first biennial meeting of the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) provides the global development community with the opportunity to discuss in a strategic manner the issue of how to enhance the development content of today’s modes of development cooperation, with a view towards ensuring that such cooperation delivers in terms of establishing the social, economic and environmental conditions needed to support people-centered and self-reliant development patterns in developing countries. These conditions should be such as would lay the basis for developing countries to sustainably move out of existing patterns of aid dependence towards new patterns and alternatives of independent development.

This side event is intended to highlight strategic issues relating to the mandate and role of the DCF as the multilateral mechanism for discussing global development cooperation, drawing on analytical studies prepared by the South Centre and its research partners and highlighting developing country perspectives on the DCF.

 Mr. Vicente Paolo Yu (Programme Coordinator, South Centre) : Developing Country Perspectives on the DCF:Research Results from Brazil, China, India and South Africa on Enhancing the Strategic Development Role of the DCF

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