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Developing Innovative South-South and Triangular Cooperation Partnerships UNESCO is leveraging its multidisciplinary expertise in education, the sciences, culture and communication and information to support developing countries through new, original approaches to reach the goals they have set for themselves. It is developing innovative, multi-stakeholder South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation partnerships with governments, civil society and professional institutions to expand and deepen its support to developing countries to achieve long-term results.
Malaysia-UNESCO Cooperation Programme (MUCP) From inclusive policy design, skills training and sustainable tourism to education for sustainable development and tsunami preparedness, and strengthening STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) curricula for girls in Africa and Asia Pacific, projects run under the Malaysia-UNESCO Cooperation Programme (MUCP) are a model for South-South cooperation. Operational since 2013, MUCP places special emphasis on small island developing States (SIDS) and least developed countries (LDCs) in Asia and the Pacific, and in Africa. It draws on the expertise of Malaysian institutions, including the International Centre for South-South Cooperation for Science, Technology and 3
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Innovation (ISTIC) and on the Regional Humid Tropics Hydrology and Water Resources Centre for South-East Asia and the Pacific (HTC) - category 2 centres created under the auspices of UNESCO.3 To date, 29 projects have been implemented in more than 70 countries, including the Gambia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, each contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. MUCP also focuses on a project to promote South-South cooperation to enhance science, engineering and technology standards in Asia and the Pacific with the aim of strengthening engineering institutions, improving the quality of education, and enabling mobility of engineers between the Asia and Pacific region and Africa. It has led to the development of a modular curricula on science, engineering and technology standards that can be adapted for professional bodies and universities for certified training of professionals and encouraged countries to join the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific’s (FEIAP) accreditation system. In the framework of this project, UNESCO co-hosted several regional and interregional workshops on “South-South cooperation for Strengthening Engineering Standards and Mobility of Professionals” to support the engineering qualification standardization guidelines of FEIAP and
ategory 2 centres under the auspices of UNESCO are established and funded by Member States to contribute to C the achievement of UNESCO’s objectives by way of global, regional, subregional or interregional activities.