Dev partners should reform process to give assistance
Development partners need to bring reforms in their assistance processes if they want to respond to the dramatic shifts in the global landscape, Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), said yesterday.
He emphasised the need for embedding recipient countries’ perspectives in the reform agenda by taking into account ground realities regarding the demand for and use of foreign development finance.
This would entail launching a new global conversation based on real time knowledge and evidence with balanced participation of the southern and northern providers as well as new actors of development cooperation, including the private sector and philanthropists, he said.
It has also become important to relate the concerns for development effectiveness to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals, underscored Debapriya, a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy.
He was presenting a keynote paper titled “Towards a New Conversation on Development Effectiveness” at the opening session of the “2019 Busan Global Partnership Forum: Revitalizing the Global Partnership for the Attainment of the SDGs” in Seoul, South Korea.
The forum was jointly organised by the UNDP-OECD managed “Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation” and the South Korean foreign affairs ministry, the CPD said in a press release yesterday. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal co-chaired the forum.
The Busan Forum, launched in 2011, brings together high level policymakers and practitioners from all over the world to share experiences with a renewed sense of commitment to the “Principles for Effective Development Cooperation”.
The principles are shared ownership, focus on results, partnership, transparency and mutual accountability. Tae-ho Lee, South Korean vice minister for foreign affairs, welcomed the forum participants.
The forum’s co-chairs Kamal and Elysée Munembwe Tamukumwe, vice prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, delivered the introductory remarks.
