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Essential must haves – substance

Revision number 4. Submitted by Claudine Leger on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 14:28

What should the framework contain?

a) The framework must set out global goals, as well as contextualised national targets for developed and developing countries aiming at a sustainable and equitable global development, as well as the eradication of extreme poverty.

b) The framework must be based in full accordance with international human rights laws and frameworks.

c) The framework must lever the reform of existing structures that perpetuate poverty and inequality.

d) The framework must recognise that international aid is only a part of a balanced approach to development.

e) The framework must address:

  • Root causes of poverty and injustice in all countries, from the richest to the poorest.
  • Inequity and inequality.
  • Environmental sustainability and climate change.
  • The responsibility of national governments to sustainably manage their natural and financial resources.
  • The responsibility of the international community to support developing countries in the face of global challenges through respecting their ODA commitments as well as through innovative redistributive funding mechanisms which would generate additional predictive finance.
  • The responsibility of developing country governments to deliver on development commitments.

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Erica Carroll, Christian Aid
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 09:15
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I'm pretty satisfied with this section!
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john carroll, John Carroll LCSW Psychotherapist
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 02:46
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Seems sound to me.
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Amy Pollard, CAFOD
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 14:28
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I think this is a good start but we have a way to go in terms of pinning down the specific commitments of a new framework. There's a contradiction in the last point of (e): If we are proposing a framework for all countries, then it's the responsiblity of all country governments (not just developing country governments) to deliver on their commitments.
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Tim Jones, Jubilee Debt Campaign
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 13:41
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It is good that this section recognises the need to reform existing structures which perpetuate poverty and inequality. But it needs to name those structures. The framework must address the financial system and how this increases poverty and inequality and shifts power from the poor to the rich, through debt, tax and illicit flows.
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L Williams, Concord
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 09:03
Tim I hope that we may be able to get into more detail on these structures in future discussions on the content, perhaps at the Civicus World Assembly in Canada. Will you be there?
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Sono Aibe, Pathfinder International
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 16:03
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Great acceleration of women's health and empowerment needs to be called out, just as environmental sustainability is, since MDG5 is way behind on targets.
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L Williams, Concord
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 09:05
Sono Should we be looking at continuing a similar process to the MDGs, or should we consider a new approach? What do you think? What would be the best way to make international progress on these issues?
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Graham Long, Politics Dept., Newcastle University
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 09:57
At some point, it will be necessary to specify which structures "perpetuate poverty and inequality" and this, I imagine, will become strategically sticky: the commitment is clear, here, that someone is responsible for bringing poverty about (this is true, but politically sensitive: the responsibility might well be/is pretty widespread). This is a wide-ranging agenda. Put in the way it is here, the framework seems to have 3 primary aims: poverty reduction, equality (that development must reduce inequality?), sustainability. I wonder if these three aims are all of equal importance - more specifically, is it equally the task of this particular framework to advance all three? Answering these questions seems to be a job for a larger framework, of which this is just a part?
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Kimbowa Richard, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 11:59
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For Africa, a specific framework on the rules of engagement that secures human integrity, environmental sustainability etc, is crucial with the multitude of 'development actors' - donors, CSOs, business and others.
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L Williams, Concord
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 09:07
Kimbowa I agree with your comments - should this be in a similar framework to the MDGs with goals and indicators or should it look to a new approach?
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Emma Cain, ADD International
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 09:38
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The section should include some reference to social exclusion and the responsibility of policymakers to actively include – This crucial issue isn’t quite covered by inequality/inequity. It is the different factors which exclude people from the mainstream (e.g. gender, disability, age, ethnicity etc.) which contribute to locking people into chronic poverty. These need to be recognised and addressed if post 2015 development processes are to be equitable and sustainable.
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