1. Global Partnership for Development: Implications for the evaluation of development and development aid Sheelagh O’Reilly International Organisation Development Ltd 16 – 26 Forth Street Edinburgh, EH1 3LH sheelagh@iod.uk.com

2. 2 MDG8 ‘Develop a Global Partnership for Development’ BEYOND development aid

3. 3 Poverty in rich societies Around 30% of children in UK live in households below the poverty line and more than 50% of these have one or more parent working. Economic growth in important BUT not sufficient AND may be globally limited by environmental constraints. Combination of missing ‘Political will’ and structural failure?

4. 4 Global Poor estimates CategoryPer dayPer yearFamily of 4Numbers Destitute<$1$365$14601.3 bill Extreme poor <$2$730$29201.6 bill Global poor <$10$3650$14,6002.5 bill Not poor>$100.75 bill

5. 5 Right to development? UN Charter Universal Declaration on Human Rights Human rights treaties (Civil & Political Rights; economic and Social Cultural rights, Rights of the Child ……….. Declaration on the Right to Development Rio Declaration on Sustainable Development ……..

6. 6 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MDGs In 2002 the High Commissioner for Human Rights reported to the Economic and Social Council that: human rights law provides a value system, a legal framework, monitoring mechanisms and realistic tools that can strengthen the effectiveness of the implementation of these goals.... The elaborate system of the [Commission’s] special rapporteurs... as well as the expert [treaty] bodies... provide a wealth of information that could usefully assist in assessing to what degree the Millennium development goals have been fulfilled. (Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council, U.N. ESCOR, 11, U.N. Doc. E/2002/68 (2002))

7. 7 Human Rights approaches can inform evaluation of development Substantive rights definition and articulation Understanding of the duties and responsibilities of states, non-state actors and individuals for the human rights that facilitate development; Process rights e.g. right to information, participation and access to justice (Article 10 Rio Declaration) Monitoring mechanisms – UN Treaty bodies and regional courts Material for citizen:government accountability processes

8. 8 Human Rights Values and Development Can foster discussion on values including: ‘poverty as a human rights violation’ Why is there such a shortage of resources that one needs to make such choices as an extra teacher for classes over 60 children or supplying text books? Does the focus on individual experiments ‘blind’ us to the impact of structural failures?

9. 9 ‘What constitutes acceptable strategies for the generation of wealth internationally and domestically and the approach to its distribution.’ ‘responsibility of states, and of states acting collectively through the multilateral institutions, is to people, not to the market as an end in itself’

10. 10 Human Rights, international law and state obligations? State Sovereignty and State Responsibility Common but differentiated responsibilities Coherence of policy at national and international level? Foster access to information, participation and access to justice (Aarhus convention, Rio Declaration Principle 10) People Centered Development

11. 11 Monterrey and Doha Declaration: “We express our deep concern that the international community is now challenged by the severe impact on development of multiple, interrelated global crises and challenges, such as increased food insecurity, volatile energy and commodity prices, climate change and a global financial crisis, as well as the lack of results so far in the multilateral trade negotiations and a loss of confidence in the international economic system”

12. 12 Examples of what does this mean for focus on impact evaluation? Need to think more broadly = systems as well as individuals? Partnerships of sovereign states Linkages of citizens within and between states for accountability of states and their leaders Policy coherence in governments national and international agendas in the developed and developing world? Appropriate impact evaluation techniques for trade policy development. Is the WTO HR or development compliant? Acknowledge the smaller role of development aid for development and changing actors and power relations – partnerships not contracts; Learn from other domains such as human rights and international law.