Aid effectiveness needs decent work and private sector regulation

Issued on November 21, 2011 at 05:41 PM

Minister Jan O'Sullivan and Moira Leydon, Chair of Congress Global Solidarity CommitteeCongress today (23 November 2011) met with Ms. Jan O'Sullivan, Minister for State of Trade & Development to make the case that Aid effectiveness needs decent work and private sector regulation. Governments will gather in Busan, South Korea, to discuss aid effectiveness at the end of November,. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is pressing for a conclusion that promotes pro-poor growth and favours working people. Congress letter to the Minister available here.

For more on the ITUC's work on development cooperation - see here

More on the 4th high level meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan here

(Added 8th December)Civil society, through the Better Aid coalition, have welcomed the Busan partnership agreement on an inclusive new global partnership. The Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation is an advancement from Accra in many areas crucial to civil society. For the first time since the Paris Declaration, democratic ownership has been acknowledged as fundamental principle of development cooperation implemented through inclusive partnerships. The new partnership shifts the
focus from a technical aid effectiveness agenda towards a new development effectiveness agenda that is more inclusive, more political, and focused on results as rights based
development outcomes rather than aid delivery. The Busan document also engages strongly in promoting a rights based enabling environment for civil society and endorses the Civil Society Organizations' Istanbul Principles. However they note with concern that the Busan Partnerhip for Effective Development Cooperation has no explicit commitments to adopt human-rights based approaches, and strongly believe that it has not given adequate attention to women's rights, the right to development and environmental justice. More here