Scaling Up South-South and Triangular Cooperation

2 Tanaka, op.cit., sought to somehow include the "fragile states" of today into the analyses, and thus divided the global system into three spheres: the Neo-Medieval, Modern, and Chaotic.The countries in the Chaotic sphere are now referred to as fragile states. 3Whereas the 2005 Paris Declaration of OECD-DAC uses the terms "aid" and "donors," the 2011 Busan Declaration uses the terms "development co-operation" and "providers."This appears to reflect the changes I identify to a certain extent.The contemporary world system demands changes in our way of thinking about development cooperation.Development cooperation must be co-operation in the true sense of the word: working together.Extending this idea will enable us to adapt to the modern world system, and South-South and triangular cooperation is one important and promising means to that end.We intend to make every effort and work together with our partners around the world to establish a new form of development cooperation.Chapter 1Research Institute has been pursuing. 1The chapters that follow are attempts toward that end using different cases and analytical frameworks.Specifically, the following two chapters will deal with thematic issues, i.e., global issues such as climate change and disaster prevention (Chapter 2), and agricultural and food security (Chapter 3).In doing so, these two chapters will also look at analytical issues such as knowledge creation, institutional arrangements, capacity development, and scalability.In contrast, the subsequent Chapter 4 will dwell more on analytic issues, i.e., knowledge, institution and capacity; drawing on several case studies, it will look for key factors that facilitate scaling up of SSC as a means of knowledge creation.Following these chapters are narrative case analyses, each offering somewhat detailed descriptions of selected SSC/Triangular cooperation projects supported by JICA.Finally, some facts and figures of Japan's SSC/Triangular cooperation are appended. Outline of the VolumeChapter 2: Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management and South-South/Triangular Cooperation (Hosono, Akio)This chapter attempts to explore the roles that SSC/TrC can play in dealing with disaster prevention.Addressing the risk of disasters is of particular urgency and critical importance in developing countries, which, with their financial, technical and social constraints, are more vulnerable to disasters than developed countries.SSC/TrC could play a particularly important role in this area; it can mobilize knowledge and wisdom of both foreign and local experts for the development of technically and socially appropriate technologies and systems for disaster prevention.Starting with the reflection on the experience of the East Japan Great Earthquake and Tsunami as well as the flood that hit Thailand in 2011, the author presents three levels of capacity needed to deal with possible disasters.Then, the chapter will look at how an SSC/TrC project has worked in alleviating such gaps, taking cases from Central America.