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India and the United Nations launched a joint capacity-building initiative for the Global South on Sunday. The “India-UN Capacity Building Initiative” aims to share India’s development experiences, best practices and expertise with partner countries in the Global South through capacity building and training programs. The initiative was announced at the India-UN for the Global South in New York.
The India-UN initiative also complements the India-UN partnership in the form of “India-UN Development Partnership Fund” which has developed a portfolio of 75 development projects in 61 countries in the last 6 years.
As part of this initiative, the UN India team and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will partner to leverage India’s Technical and Economic Cooperation platform. A Joint Declaration of Intent was exchanged today between the UN Resident Coordinator in India and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This Initiative will also operationalise the development-relevant deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency. These include the G20 Action Plan for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs, technological transformation and building Digital Public Infrastructure.
