Ger Bergkamp is Director General of the World Water Council, headquartered in Marseille, France. Read more...

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Ten years after the adoption of the Millennium Declaration by all the 189 member states of the UN General Assembly setting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the development community is gathering on September 20-22 in New York to look back and assess the progress that has been achieved so far and to take necessary measures in order to meet the MDGs by 2015. In view of this High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, ID4D members have written contributions on the topic of the MDGs and they have invited a series of renowned guest bloggers over the summer to share their ideas on these goals.

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This report has been commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UN Millennium Campaign and is part of a larger project on progress in development. It presents an analysis of progress on the Millennium Development Goals.

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Jon Lomøy has been appointed Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD in April 2010. Read more...

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Michel D. Kazatchkine became Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in April 2007. Read more...

I am writing this blog a week after the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna and only a few days after coming back from the African Union Summit in Kampala. I am writing this blog nearly 30 years after the first cases of AIDS were reported; 10 years after the International AIDS Conference in Durban brought the world’s attention to the moral outrage of the failure to provide antiretroviral treatment in much of the developing world; 10 years after member states of the United Nations agreed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015; and 8 years after the Global Fund was established to vastly scale up the response to AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

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Dr Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2006. Read more...

Two months from now, world leaders will meet at the UN in New York to review progress with the Millennium Development Goals. The many reports coming across my desk suggest that the MDGs have been good for development.

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Mr. Eckhard Deutscher has been the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since January 2008. Read more...

Development cooperation needs greater coherence: how can all policies be geared towards development goals?

Policy Coherence is a key concern for development, so it is very relevant and timely to discuss this issue broader deeper.

If we want to see development as the result of our development co-operation investments, we have to look not just at the investment itself, but at the investment environment in which this is taking place. Policy Coherence for Development can significantly increase the impact of development resources contributing to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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  In these last five years before 2015, we need political support and accountability to meet the MDGs. Do you remember where you were when the bells rang in the new millennium? I was in Egypt at the Temple of the Oracle in the Siwa Oasis seeking wishes and wisdom!

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Hello to all,

I wanted to share with you a project that is particularly dear to me in this year 2010 that is marked by the 50th anniversary celebrations of African independence (symbolically, as this is an average). It is an essay entitled “Africa’s billions”, which I have written with my colleague Olivier Ray and that is published today in French by Odile Jacob (the English version is due to be published early next year).

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The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and the arrival in Brussels of a new leadership team, together provide an opportunity to re-invigorate European collaboration and collective action in the realm of international development. This publication is the result of a collaboration between 25 researchers from four of Europe’s leading think-tanks on international development. It stems from a shared commitment to European development cooperation, and a sense of urgency about the need to rethink policy for new and challenging times. A new Europe, facing new challenges, will be tested in many fields and sectors. The authors assess the task of reaching the Millennium Development Goals, and rethinking the goals for the period beyond 2015. They make the case for joined-up thinking across the institutions and policies of the EU, emphasising the importance of Policy Coherence for Development. And they examine specific policy areas – trade, state/peace-building, climate change, migration, finance, and the private sector. They lay out an agenda for partnership with developing countries, and examine how actors in the EU system can work better together. The report makes the case for five priorities:

New EU leadership in thinking about how development cooperation can help deal with shared global problems.

EU states to meet their aid promises and improve the targeting and effectiveness of aid spending.

New efforts to ensure coherence between development and other policies.

Providing new life to development partnerships.

Improved cooperation between Member States, so that the EU really does work as one.

You can read the entire report here.
 
 

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