Greater Mekong Subregion Development Partners' Meeting 2024
Event
The Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program (GMS Program) will hold a Development Partners’ Meeting (DPM) in Kunming, People’s Republic of China (PRC) and via videoconferencing on 5 November 2024, ahead of the 8th GMS Leaders’ Summit on 6-7 November 2024.
The GMS Summit is organized every three years. It is the highest-level forum in the GMS Program. The theme of the 8th GMS Summit is “Toward a Better Community Through Innovation-driven Development”.
This year’s DPM aims to engage development partners to share their perspectives on the new initiatives of key cross-cutting priorities identified in the GMS Strategic Framework 2030, for a rich exchange of views and sharing of information about the GMS Program and the programs and initiatives of the DPs. It will also help identify a wider and deeper pool of financial, technical, and knowledge resources to address the subregion's expanding development needs.
About the DPM
The Development Partners’ Meeting serves as a forum for discussions among GMS senior officials, representatives of development partners, private sector, and civil society that are actively involved in the GMS Program.
GMS countries continue to seek the assistance of the Asian Development Bank and other Development Partners in the GMS Program for financial, knowledge, and technical support, which covers financing of investment projects, grants and technical assistance projects, knowledge and expertise.
Development Partners can support the GMS Program in new, innovative areas and cross-cutting themes identified in the GMS-2030, with their knowledge, expertise, and experience. At the same time, financing needs in the GMS Program also remain large and are likely to grow as the Program expands into these new areas.
Documents
GMS Digitalization Action Plan (2025–2027)
This was developed based on the Scoping Study on Digitalization in the GMS, presented for notation in the 26th GMS Ministerial Conference, and a complement to the GMS Digital Economy Cooperation Initiative, which was developed and proposed by the People’s Republic of China and endorsed by the 25th GMS Ministerial Conference.
Greater Mekong Subregion Gender Strategy Implementation Plan 2025-2030
The GMS Gender Strategy was endorsed by the GMS Ministers in 2022. This Implementation Plan defines the target outputs, actions, indicative schedules of actions and delivery of outputs, and systems to implement the Gender Strategy across the GMS Program’s eight priority sectors.
Regional Investment Framework 2025-2027
This three-year rolling pipeline of projects is based on the new minimum and aspirational criteria. RIF 2027 comprises 176 projects with a total estimated value of $26.4 billion.
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 Provisional Program | 239.08 KB |
Last Updated: 1 November 2024