A/HRC/26/41 and management and technological systems as well as other forms of support is referred to as triangular cooperation.14 15. According to the same office, the key feature of South-South cooperation is that it is initiated, organized and managed by developing countries themselves. Yet non-State actors do actively participate. An important goal of this approach to international cooperation is to increase the quantity and enhance the quality of international development cooperation. A key benefit of this form of cooperation is the use of experience and capacity that already exist and the development of new capacities in developing countries. A second benefit is that, as is well recognized now, it tends to rankle less and be received better in the receiving country when the donor is a similarly situated country. Another benefit of such cooperation is that it is often significantly less expensive to execute than other forms of international cooperation. 16. Clearly, the human rights field does fit, and indeed is actively included, within this rubric. This much is recognized in the concluding section of the report of the seminar on the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights convened by OHCHR in Geneva in February 2013 (A/HRC/23/20). The more important questions for present purposes are how to expand and deepen the utilization of this important form of international cooperation in the human rights field and what role the Human Rights Council can play in attaining those objectives. How, for example, can the experience and capacity that already exist within certain countries of the South be deployed in other developing countries which are not as endowed in the relevant respect, thereby developing new human rights resource capacities in the latter countries in a less expensive and more effective way? And what role, if any, exists for triangular cooperation in this regard? 17. To take the African continent as an example, some of the countries there are much richer in terms of human resources than others. It will often be significantly cheaper, more socioculturally and politically sensitive and therefore more effective in the long run to find ways of deploying human rights experts from countries that are more endowed in this regard to assist countries in the region which are not as well endowed. But because none of these countries is financially rich, triangular cooperation has an important role to play in boosting available funding and providing important technology to such projects. Triangular cooperation involving OHCHR could also be utilized as a quality assurance mechanism. 18. In this connection, long-existing programmes such as the Technical Aid Corps scheme of Nigeria, which is almost entirely funded by that country on its own, serve as important models and guides for the kinds of programmes and projects which the Human Rights Council, through OHCHR, could take steps to collaborate with, provide greater funding and support to and, in the end, harness.15 Already the scheme collaborates actively with the Commonwealth Secretariat and has signed a memorandum of understanding with that body. Established in 1987, it assists States in Africa, the Caribbean, the Commonwealth and other specific regions in their socioeconomic development efforts, through the posting of qualified persons to serve for two-year terms in the relevant countries, in accordance with their expressed needs. A key expressed goal of this programme is to share Nigerian know-how and expertise with the recipient countries. Thus far, over 35 countries have benefited from this scheme. 19. As some countries suggested in response to the questionnaires distributed by the Advisory Committee, these kinds of South-South exchanges should be expanded and 14 15 8 United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, “What is South-South cooperation?”, available from http://scc.undp.org/content/ssc/about/what_is_ssc.html. Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, available from www.tacng.org/brief_history.php.