Friends,

Subject:  United Nations: 68th DGC – NGO Civil Society Conference,

Salt Lake City, 26 to 28 August 2019

As we get ready to present the joint  RAD-AID International/ HRDC / FEZANA/ PARTNERSASIA  Panel presentation at the 68th DGC NGO Civil Society Conference on 27 August 2019 in Salt Lake City, a question was asked as to what is meant by North South South model of SustainableDevelopment…

The following article from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery provides a glimpse of how this model works…

The “Global North” represents, countries that are financially well off, (e.g., in Scandinavia, USA, Canada, Countries in Europe etc., )

The “Global South” is represented by resource poor countries, ( for example in Africa, in South East Asia, Central and South America etc.,)

So when RAD AID International (www.rad-aid.org) takes a team of volunteers from North America to Nepal from 7 to 20 September 2019, and follows up with deliverables, with education, equipment and mentoring, that is an example of a North – South Model of Development .

When poor children from the Neighboring States in North India travel to Banepa, Nepal

to get the surgery done for their club feet, at the HRDC (www.hrdcnepal.org) that is a South – South Model of Development.

For the equation to become sustainable, a move toward a South South Model is what

we should be aiming for in the decades ahead as the UN tries to reach its 17 Sustainable

Development Goals by the year 2030.

Best,

Behram

Behram Pastakia

Co Chair FEZANA UN NGO Committee

Metropolitan Washington DC

Dated:  1 August 2019

CC: Eileen Moncoeur, Friends of HRDC c/o Partners Asia, Oakland, California

(www.partnersasia.org)