Pilot South-South Exchange Partnership Building and Investment Cycle
The Partnership Building Market
- Best practice - A developing country institution accredited with a United Nations organ or with a partner human development investment exchange, and which wishes to cooperate with another developing country institution to advance human development, lists its Best Practice;
- Proven Solution - The Best Practice is peer-reviewed by a panel of experts working in the same field and region. If the peer-review process is favorable, the Best Practice becomes a Proven Solution;
- Partnership initiatives - Another developing country institution requests cooperation to replicate the listed Best Practice in their community;
- Listed Projects - The match between the two cooperating institutions is reviewed and approved by both the Solution Provider and the South-South Exchange staff.
The Social Investment Market
- Listed Projects - The cooperation project is listed on the pilot South-South Exchange social investment market;
- Social Investment - Social investors buy shares in the project;
- Grant agreement - Once the project is fully funded a grant agreement is drafted and signed;
- Disbursement - Funds are disbursed in tranches, as stipulated in the grant agreement, for the institutions to implement the cooperation project;
Implementation & Monitoring
- Interim reports – At intervals stated in the grant agreement, the institutions submit reports to the pilot South-South Exchange describing the project’s progress and accomplishments;
- Concluding report – Once the project has been completed, a final report is submitted to the pilot South-South Exchange summarizing the fulfillment of objectives against the milestones set forth in the grants agreement;
- Final peer review – The cooperation project is peer-reviewed by a panel of experts and volunteers working in the same field and region;
- Final project report – The concluding report as amended and/or supplemented by the final peer review is published online. Investors are notified of project completion and achievements with a link to the published report.