A/RES/72/237 South-South cooperation continuing to increase its mutual accountability and transparency as well as coordinating its initiatives with other development projects and programmes on the ground, in accordance with national development plans and priorities, and recognizes that the impact of South-South cooperation should be assessed with a view to improving, as appropriate, its quality in a results-oriented manner; 8. Acknowledges the progress made and encourages the continued integration of South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation into the policies and strategic frameworks of the funds, programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, and requests those funds, programmes and specialize d agencies of the United Nations system that have not yet integrated South-South and triangular cooperation into their policies to do so, taking into account the Nairobi outcome document of the High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 11 and the complementary nature of South-South to North-South cooperation; 9. Reiterates its request to the Chair of the United Nations Development Group to make specific recommendations on additional support t hat United Nations system organizations and all States could provide to South-South and triangular cooperation, which could include the voluntary secondment of staff and the appointment of Junior Professional Officers to the United Nations Office for South South Cooperation, as well as measures to strengthen the system -wide efficiency and impact of the Office; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to make necessary adjustments, as appropriate, to the framework of operational guidelines on United Nations suppo rt to South-South and triangular cooperation, 12 in consultation with all States and organizations of the United Nations development system; 11. Reaffirms the mandate and the central role of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation as the focal point for promoting and facilitating SouthSouth and triangular cooperation for development on a global and United Nations system-wide basis; 12. Reiterates the request to the Chair of the United Nations Development Group to establish a more formalized and strengthened inter-agency mechanism, coordinated by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, with a view to encouraging joint support to South-South and triangular initiatives and sharing information on development activities and results achieved by various organizations through their respective business models in support of South-South and triangular cooperation, calls upon the United Nations development system to designate representational focal points to join the mechanism, requests the Chair of the United Nations Development Group to give the United Nations Office for South -South Cooperation the opportunity to be represented more regularly in strategic and coordination mechanisms of the United Nations Development Group when matters affecting South-South and triangular cooperation are being discussed, and in this regard welcomes the progress made by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Task Team of the United Nations Development Group to this effect; 13. Calls upon the United Nations Development Programme and other relevant organizations of the United Nations development system to assist developing countries in implementing projects of South-South cooperation, including sharing best practices and experiences from the South, especiall y with the least developed __________________ 11 12 4/7 Resolution 70/1. SSC/17/3. 17-23315