Wikiworx Academy

1- Purpose

Clarify the capability level of the Global Partnership

2- Contents

1. The simple, transparent and easy-to-understand formulation of the MDG 8 targets has facilitated its use as an advocacy tool in international conferences and clearly identified the areas on which most stakeholders thought the world should focus. MDG 8 also recognized the needs of the most vulnerable countries and called for strengthening of commitments to increase support to least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS).
2. Until the onset of the economic and financial crisis additional resources were mobilized.
3. Market access for exports from developing countries increased through a gradual decrease of tariffs and with support from an increase in Aid for Trade, which targets developing countries’ ability to improve their productive capacity with investments in trade related areas coming from ODA.
4. Debt ratios decreased during the past several years, and 36 of the 39 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) have benefited from debt relief. Despite the success of debt-relief initiatives, 20 developing countries still remain at high risk of debt distress, including 7 countries that have concluded the HIPC process.
5. Access to information and communication technologies increased dramatically, while efforts to increase access to affordable essential medicines have been strengthened.
6. MDG 8 is the only Goal that gave direct responsibility to the developed countries. This perpetuated the “donor-recipient” paradigm, rather than calling for collective action at the multilateral level to achieve a stable global economic environment.
7. MDG 8 lacked a strong normative foundation, as it failed to integrate international human rights commitments, including the duty of international cooperation for development established by the UN Charter and affirmed by the Declaration on the Right to Development.
8. MDG 8 did not reflect the important role of other actors in development cooperation, such as private philanthropic foundations, civil society and other new forms of cooperative and collective actions. The private sector was only marginally mentioned in a very narrow sense in targets 8.E and 8.F. Hence, the goal did not sufficiently highlight other sources of finance such as foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances and innovative sources of development finance, but was instead often misinterpreted as focusing solely on aid commitments.
9. A main weakness of the present global partnership is the lack of accountability of stakeholders. This results partly from a lack of precision of targets and indicators. For example, MDG 8 calls for more generous ODA to countries committed to poverty reduction, but does not provide any objectively verifiable or time-bound targets.
10. In some instances, there was also a lack of consistency between some of the indicators and targets.
    1. Target 8.A calls for the further development of both the trading and financial system, but there is no indictor to measure the lack of progress in the international financial system, which has remained essentially unregulated.
    2. Target 8.D addresses the debt problems of developing countries, whereas the associated indicators focus mainly on the progress of the more limited set of poorest most indebted countries under the HIPC initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
    3. Targets 8.E and 8.F call for cooperation with the private sector, but no measure of the private sector’s contributions has been proposed

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