ONE Heads to Doha
A team from ONE is going to Doha this week for the UN Financing for Development Conference. This is a follow-up conference to the 2002 conference, where the famous Monterrey Consensus (well, famous at least among development geeks like us) was adopted by the heads of states around the world. The “Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus” (phew, long name!) aims to “assess the progress made, reaffirm goals and commitments, share best practices and lessons learned and identify obstacles and constraints encountered, actions and initiatives to overcome them and important measures for further implementation, as well as new challenges and emerging issues”.
The Doha Conference occurs at an economically challenging time, but we are going to try our best to make sure that the rich countries don’t backtrack on their development promises, and to try to explore new opportunities for funding development. In particular, we are going to focus our efforts on the following points:
- G8 countries to reiterate their existing commitment to increase ODA and reassure developing countries that these will be forthcoming
- International community to explore concrete steps that can be taken to advance innovative financing mechanisms, including carbon finance for development
- Encourage new donors, especially oil exporting countries, to follow the example of Scandinavian and other countries, to spend more on fighting poverty
Stay tuned to the ONE Blog for updates from our team on the ground in Doha!
-Mikiko Imai
UPDATE: ONE’s policy brief for Doha conference.
- Previous Post NPR Covers Zimbabwe
- Next Post Background on Obama’s Economic Team
Blog Contributors
Hot Topics
-
Fight the Famine, Feed the Future
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger. -
Crisis in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food. -
The Beginning of the End of AIDS
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS. -
Agriculture Accountability
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
From Our Members
-
Our question on faith and development, answered by the White House
Feb 9th, 2012 | Posted by Field -
Remembering ONE member Laurence Carolin on Airplane Day
Feb 8th, 2012 | Posted by Field -
Rep. Dicks is not the Norm… he’s a champion
Feb 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Field
From Our Partners
-
Remembering ONE member Laurence Carolin on Airplane Day
Feb 8th, 2012 | Posted by Field -
Essay: My life as a spiritual director in Niger
Feb 8th, 2012 | Posted by Guest Blogger -
Football and secret oil deals
Feb 7th, 2012 | Posted by Guest Blogger
November 25, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Thanks so much, Mikiko, for sharing this info about the UN Financing for Development Conference to be held soon in Doha.
I am especially pleased to see that Bono will be meeting with representatives of the Qatar government as our movement must do all that it can ensure that new investments in Africa will benefit the People of the Continent – and not just line the pockets of the rich.
If anyone can find “the melody line” for our movement at this meeting, it will be Bono. ~
Please keep us updated on your travel to Doha, Mikiko.
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org