Greater Mekong Subregion Development Partners' Meeting 2024

Event




 

The GMS Development Partners’ Meeting 2024 was held on 5 November 2024, in Kunming, People's Republic of China, and via videoconferencing, as a side event of the 8th GMS Summit, held on 7 November 2024. The DPM engaged development partners, GMS senior officials, as well as the private sector, to share their perspectives on new regional initiatives under the GMS Program. Development partners and the private sector also presented their programs supporting the GMS and reaffirmed their commitment to the subregion.

 

Mr. Winfried Wicklein, head of the GMS Secretariat and meeting chair, highlighted the vital role of development partners in accelerating regional development, strengthening infrastructure, boosting trade, and improving connectivity among GMS member countries. He urged collaboration in emerging areas, such as innovation and digitalization, the green transition, and gender equality. .

 

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”.

 

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

Asian Development Bank and Viet Nam: Fact Sheet

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.

Asian Development Bank and Viet Nam: Fact Sheet

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.

Asian Development Bank and Viet Nam: Fact Sheet

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.


AttachmentSize
PDF icon Provisional Program239.08 KB

Last Updated: 1 November 2024