FIRST HIGH-LEVEL MEETING OF THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
KEY MESSAGES AND CORE NARRATIVE
This document offers key messages, a core narrative and social media updates for the first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation to be held in Mexico City on April 15-16 2014.
Key messages:
- The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership marks a major milestone in the fight against poverty.
- Effective development co-operation is crucial to meet the Millennium Development Goals and is a keytool inthe ‘how’ of a post-2015 global development framework.
- The Global Partnership supports developing countries leadand manage effective, inclusivedevelopment co-operation to boost results.
- Governments, business, civil society, providers and other actorsmust work better togetherfor development. The Global Partnership supports this – both now and for the post-2015 development agenda.
The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnershipis a key moment for the global community to:
-review and drive further progress on effective development co-operation;
-take action to boost tax collection,eliminate illicit financial flows and shape tax policy to reduce poverty more effectively;
-exchange practical ideas on how to increase support to poverty reduction efforts and to inclusive growth in middle-income countries;
-commit to support South-South and triangular cooperation,knowledge sharing and mutual learning among developing countries, and with developed countries,including in select areas of the post-2015 agenda; and,
-Build strategic partnerships with business as a driver and investor indevelopment up to and within a post-2015 framework.
Core narrative:
First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership: 15 – 16 April 2014, Mexico City
The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation marks a major milestone in the global fight against poverty.
Over 1300 development leaders will join Enrique Peña Nieto,President of Mexico,UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurríain Mexico City to:
- review global progress in making development co-operation more effective;
- agree on actions toboost progress;and,
- anchoreffective development co-operation in the post-2015 global development agenda.
The leaders who will come togetherin Mexico Cityinclude heads of state and government, ministers, parliamentarians and leaders from international organisations, business, civil society and foundations.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline of 2015 is fast approaching. Phenomenal gains have been made, yet poverty still afflicts one in seven people around the world – and one in eight still go to bed hungry.
The first Global Partnership High-Level Meeting will reaffirm the importance of effective development co-operation in meeting the MDGs and as a key part of the ‘how’ of the next global development framework.
The two-day forum includes five plenary sessions and 28 focus sessions on a range ofcritical themes for development:
- Progress on implementing key principles of effective development co-operation.Working with and for all, being more transparent, ensuring developing countries are in the lead, and focusing on results are all key to making sure that all types of development cooperation have real and sustainable impact on the ground.
This session will review progress and take new steps to boost impact of the commitments made at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011. The session will also look at ways to promote inclusive development.
- Tax and development.No country should be dependent on others’ resources for its own development. Developed and developing countries must work together to boost domestic resource mobilisation.
In this session, leaders willagree on ways to step up and support existing development co-operation to boost tax collection, cut illicit financial flows and strengthen policies that support inclusive development, building on recent progress on these issues.
- Delivering development effectively in middle-income countries.As the home of nearly 75% of the world’s poor, ‘middle-income’ countries face complexdevelopment challenges of reducing inequality while at the same time fueling sustained economic growth.
In this session leaders will exchange practical ideas on targeted and differentiated strategies of development co-operation that can deliver poverty reduction and inclusive growth in middle-income countries in an effective, sustainable way.
- Knowledge sharing, South-South and triangular co-operation.Country-led co-operation and mutual learning among developing countries can accelerate development. Some of this support comes in the form of knowledge – which is prized because it is based on recent, concrete experience.
In this session, leaders will showcase and discuss ways to scale up country-leddevelopment co-operationincluding with a view to implement the post-2015 development agenda.
- Improving the role of business in development.There is no longer a question of whether business can affect development. The question is how to ensure business has a stronger positive impact on driving progress.
In this final but critical session, leaders will share some of the most innovative and dynamic examples of how this positive impact is being delivered, and take action to do more.
About the Global Partnership
The Global Partnership helps nations, business and organisations work better together to end poverty.
It brings governments, the private sector, civil society and others together to ensure funding, knowledge and policy produce maximum impact for development
The Global Partnership is led by threehigh-profile Co-Chairs:
- Armida Alisjahbana, Minister for National Development Planning, Indonesia;
- Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom; and,
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria
It is a forum for sharedadvice, shared learningand shared action to support the implementation of principles that form the foundation of effective development co-operation:
- ownership by developing countries;
- results as a focus of development efforts;
- partnerships for inclusive development; and,
- transparency and accountability to one another.
To date, 161 Governments and 54 organisationshave endorsed the Global Partnership Principles.
The Global Partnership works with partners to complement the work of other organisations that impacteffective development co-operation. These include the UN Development Co-operation Forum, the Development Working Group of the G20 and the UN-led process for creating a global development agenda for after 2015.
The Global Partnership builds on a range of internationalactivities to improve development co-operation, including the Monterrey Consensus of 2002, the Rome Declaration on Harmonisation (2003), the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), and the Accra Agenda for Action of 2008.
The Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, where the Global Partnership was created, marked a turning point in bringingthis wide range of historical efforts to improve development co-operation by different partnerstogether into one place, going beyond governments to include business, civil society, parliamentarians, international organisations and foundations as development partners.
The Global Partnership is uniquely:
- Inclusive: it brings together governments, business, organisations, private foundations, parliamentarians and many others to take action together.
- Action-oriented: the Global Partnership is not just about talking – it has a ‘country-focused’ approach that has made and will continue to make a difference to development results in a range of countries.
- Open: it provides a troubleshooting forum where developing countries, providers and others can air concerns and find solutions. Anyone can join.
- Flexible: it has a rolling agenda – about every one and a half to two years it picks key topics that development actors think are critical to improving development co-operation, underpinned by key principles. The Global Partnership is a forum fit for acting on 21st century challenges.
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- #GPHLM Global Partnership High Level Meeting
- #DevCoop Development Co-operation
- #GPEDC Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation
- #GlobaldevWider twitter discussions on development
- #Post2015Global discussions on the post-2015 development agenda
- #povertyGlobal discussions on how to end poverty
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The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation marks a major milestone in the global fight against poverty.
Over 1300 development leaders will join Enrique Peña Nieto,President of Mexico, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurríain Mexico City on April 15-16 to review and push forward progress on how governments, business, civil society and all others involved in development work better together for results.
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