DIRCO Annual Report

Programme: South-South Cooperation

Deviation from planned target to actual achievement 2021/22

Audited actual performance 2018/19

Audited actual performance 2019/20

Planned annual target 2020/21

**Actual achievement 2020/21

Reason for deviations

Outcome

Output

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• the release of the statement was intended to coincide with the 75th Anniversary of the UN. All three member states lauded the fact that there would be continuity of an IBSA member state on the UNSC following South Africa’s departure in 2020, to be followed by India in 2021 and Brazil in 2022. In this way, IBSA’s shared values and mutual interest in advancing a safer, more peaceful and equitable world will be insured during their terms in the council • the meeting reaffirmed its support for IBSA cooperation through the six IBSA working groups, as well as the new proposed areas of cooperation, particularly on women’s economic empowerment, agriculture and traditional medicines • agreed to operationalise the MoU on Skills Development and Vocational Training, a useful initiative in terms of the Presidential Initiative on Youth Employment

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