Review session on Chapter IV of the Monterrey Consensus
"Increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development"
15 - 16 April 2008, UN Headquarters, Conference Room 4
Background Documents and Other Inputs
- U.S. Government Submission on Review Session on International Financial and Technical Cooperation for Development: Key Developments since Monterrey
- Elements of interest to member countries of the Rio Group in the context of the consultations concerning Chapter IV of the Monterey Consensus regarding increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development
- The European Union preliminary views on "Increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development"
Panelists
(including links to available presentations)
- Mr. Eckhard Deutscher, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, OECD
- Mr. Richard Morford, Managing Director, Millennium Challenge Corporation, USA
- Ms. Hilde Johnson, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
- Mr. Sanjay G. Reddy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University
- Mr. Irfan ul Haque, Special Advisor on Financing for Development, South Centre
Statements
Statements by Member States during the interactive debate
- Statement on behalf of the Group of 77 and China by Ambassador Byron Blake, Deputy Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, at the Informal Review Session of the General Assembly on Section Four of the Monterrey Consensus
- Intervention by Norway
- Statement by Vicki Poole Deputy Director, Global Group, NZ Agency for International Development On behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ)
- Statement on behalf of the European Union by Mr. Andrej Kavčič, Head of International Finance Department Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenias
- Comments of the Government of Japan
Inputs from Civil Society
- Statement by LDC Watch at the ECOSOC NGO Forum: "The role of civil society in promoting sustainable development and the new international aid architecture"
- NGO statement Informal Review Session on Chapter IV, "Increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development"
- Proposal to Seek the Approval of an International Political Agreement on the Implementation of a Currency Transaction Tax (CTT)
- Intervention on behalf of Civil Society by David Hillman of Stamp Out Poverty