Sharing successful ideas across national borders to help transform developing countries in the southern hemisphere remains a challenge, but it’s “really making a difference”.

That’s according to Jorge Chediek, director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, and Envoy of the Secretary-General on the issue, speaking ahead of the annual Global South-South Development Expo taking place back where it all began, at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

He told Laura Quinones of UN News, that many developing countries don’t have the means to share some of their best ideas, and “traditional” north-south links still dominate organizational thinking in some areas.