We’re watching Secretary Clinton’s remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, and wanted to share with you some remarks on global development delivered just moments ago. We’ll work on bringing you additional info as it comes in (you can stream the webcast in the below post):

“To our third policy approach, and a personal priority for me as Secretary, is to elevate and integrate development as a core pillar of American power. We advance our security, our prosperity, and our values by improving the material conditions of people’s lives around the world. These efforts also lay the groundwork for greater global cooperation by building the capacity of new partners and tackling shared problems from the ground up.

“A central purpose of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review that I announced last week is to explore how to effectively design, fund and implement development and foreign assistance as part of a broader foreign policy.

“Let’s face it: we have devoted a smaller percentage of our government budget to development than almost any other advanced country. And too little of what we have spent has contributed to genuine and lasting progress. Too much of the money has never reached its intended target, but stayed here in America to pay salaries or fund overhead in contracts. I am committed to more partnerships with NGOs, but I want more of our tax dollars to be used effectively and to deliver tangible results.

“As we seek more agile, effective and creative partnerships for development, we will focus on country-driven solutions, such as those we are launching with Haiti on recovery and sustainable development and with African states on global hunger. These initiatives must not be designed to help countries scrape by. They are a tool to help countries stand on their own.

“Our development agenda will also focus on women, as drivers of economic growth and social stability. Women have long comprised the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unschooled and underfed. They are also the bulk of the world’s poor. The global recession has had a disproportionate effect on women and girls, which in turn has repercussions for families, communities and even regions. Until women around the world are accorded their rights and afforded the opportunities of education, health care and gainful employment, global progress and prosperity will have its own glass ceiling.”