GLOBAL COOPERATION NEWSLETTER
October 2010
In this edition
Social Protection in West Africa
Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases
Prioritising Expenditures for a Recovery for All
The International Day of Rural Women
Emerging Africa - How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way – new book
Korea Puts Development on the Agenda for Seoul G-20 Summit
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Social Protection in West Africa

This edition of Global Cooperation is late. I do apologise. Last week ICSW started its regional
programme to support the Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPFI). Representatives of nationalcouncils from 15 West African countries met for three days to both learn about the SPFI and maketheir own plans to be involved in national social protection initiatives.
The workshop was organised jointly by the ICSW member in Senegal, Action Humaine pour leDéveloppement Intégré au Sénégal (AHDIS) and ICSW. The funding to make the workshop possible
came from the Swedish development agency Sida and the World Food Programme. Without thesupport of these two agencies the workshop would not have happened.
Representatives of the World Food Programme participated in the programme. An important
contributor throughout the workshop was Dr Kone from the Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest
Africaine (UEMOA – Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa). In addition during theprogramme there was representation from the World Bank, UNICEF and Ministère Familie
Programme (Senegal)
The programme started with presentations on origins and meaning of the social protection floor
initiative. This was then linked to the role of national councils (national umbrella organisations) inpromoting social protection and working with national governments to develop the concept andintroduce programmes. Each of the 15 national representatives outlined what was happening in theircountries with regard to social protection. At the end of the programme each participant prepared aplan on the involvement of their council in social protection.
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not only in Senegal but in the region.
Amacodou Diouf President of AHDIS and ICSW Regional President for Central and West Africa will
outline the results of the workshop at the inter-agency meeting on the Social Protection FloorInitiative in Geneva in November.

Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable
Diseases Working Paper 228 Rachel Nugent and Andrea B. Feigl
From Centre for Global Development - CGD Development Update 2nd November 2010.
Health conditions in developing countries are becoming more like those in developed countries, with
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) predominating and infectious diseases declining. The
increased awareness of changing health needs, however, has not translated into significant shifts inresources or policy-level attention from international donors or governments in affected countries.
NCDs in poor countries portend painful choices, particularly for countries with weak health systems
that are struggling to manage persistent infectious disease burdens. Added to this is the need toprotect the poor from excessive out-of-pocket expenses.
The authors conducted an analysis of donor spending on NCDs in developing countries from 2001 to2008. Less than 3 percent ($503 million out of $22 billion) of overall global development assistancefor health was dedicated to NCDs in 2007. The amount of donor assistance for health rose to $686
million in 2008. In terms of the burden of disease, donors provided about $0.78/DALY(DALY=disability-adjusted life year – see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabilityadjusted_life_year) attributable to NCDs in developing countries in 2007, compared to $23.9/DALY
attributable to HIV, TB, and malaria. If donors provided just half the support to avoid NCD DALYs
that they provide to the three infectious diseases, it would amount to almost $4 billion indevelopment assistance for health for NCDs.
The picture of donor involvement in NCDs is not entirely bleak. Donor funding to developing
countries for NCDs grew by 618 percent between 2001 and 2008, with the largest increase comingfrom private, non-profit donors, and evidence of accelerating interest from bilateral donors.
Multilateral organisations remain the largest category of funders. Nonetheless, additional donor
funding is needed to support developing-country efforts to incorporate NCDs into their existing healthcare programs through such mechanisms as hypertension and cancer screening and prevention
programs, and proven policy solutions such as tobacco taxation and salt reduction. The full report
canbeaccessedat
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424546?utm_source=nl_weekly&utm_medium=em
ail&utm_campaign=nl_weekly_11022010&Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All
UNICEF has released a working paper, titled "Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All: A
Rapid Review of Public Expenditures in 126 Developing Countries".
The working paper is based on IMF reports from July 2009 to July 2010. The main findings are:
1. A significant number of developing countries are expected to contract aggregate government
spending in 2010-11. This is of concern both in terms of GDP (44% of the sample is tightening
compared to 2008-09) and in terms of the real value of total government expenditures (25% of thesample). The overall timing and scope of projected spending contraction raise concern, in light of thestill fragile and uneven recovery and the continued crisis impacts on vulnerable populations in many
developing countries.
2. In this general climate of fiscal consolidation, will social spending be curtailed at a time when it ismost needed? The paper assesses the risk of social spending falling short of adequately protectingpoor and vulnerable households, including the implications of adjustment measures commonly
considered by policymakers in the 126 developing countries during the period 2009-10, which are
identified as (i) wage bill cuts or caps, (ii) limiting subsidies and (iii) further targeting social protection.
The need for assessing potentially negative social impacts of adjustment measures is highlighted.
3. The paper raises a number of questions for policy makers to consider. Is the projected fiscal
adjustment trajectory in a number of countries conducive to the objective of adequately protectingvulnerable children and the achievement of development goals such as the MDGs? In this context,
possible financing options for social spending are briefly explored. It further encourages policy
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The International Day of Rural Women
The Secretary General of the UN said on 15th October 2010, “Today we recognise the important
contributions of rural women, including indigenous women, to development. Rural women arefarmers, fishers, herders and entrepreneurs; keepers of ethnic identities, traditional knowledge andsustainable practices; care-givers, parents and guardians. They are essential to agriculturaldevelopment, food and nutrition security and the management of natural resources.”“This year, the International Day of Rural Women falls at the beginning of the International Year ofYouth, providing an opportunity to highlight the importance of ensuring that young rural women andgirls can play an equal role in sustainable rural and national development.”“Rural women do most of the agricultural work in developing countries, but endure the worst working
conditions, with low pay and little or no social protection. Rural women produce most of the world’s
food, yet they are often excluded from land tenure and the credit and business services they need toprosper. They are the primary users and custodians of local natural resources, but are seldom given
a voice on national and local bodies that decide how these resources are managed. They are thecare-givers and managers of households, but rarely share these responsibilities equally with men or
have a say in major household decisions.”“At the recent Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, Member States pledged toensure equal access for rural women to productive resources, land, financing, technologies, training
and markets. They also committed to the full and equal participation of rural women in national
development – not simply as equal beneficiaries, but as equal partners.”“On this International Day, I call on governments and communities everywhere to ensure thesepromises are met so that rural women and girls can enjoy a full range of rights – from property andinheritance, to health, education and freedom from violence.”

Emerging Africa How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way – new book
Steven Radelet, Center For Global Development 2010 c. 125pp.
There is good news out of Africa. Seventeen emerging countries are putting behind them the conflict,stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. Since the mid-1990s, these countries have achieved
steady economic growth, deepened democracy, improved governance, and decreased poverty. Fivefundamental changes have made this possible: (1) more democratic and accountable governments;(2) more sensible economic policies; (3) the end of the debt crisis and changing relationships withdonors; (4) the spread of new technologies; and (5) the emergence of a new generation ofpolicymakers, activists, and business leaders.
Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way takes a fresh approach. The authors
recognise the important differences between the emerging countries, the oil-exporters (whereprogress has been uneven and volatile), and the others (where there has been little progress)
instead of treating sub-Saharan Africa as a monolithic entity. The emerging countries discussed in
the book are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius,Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania,Uganda, and Zambia.
Ordering Information Paper Text, 125 pages 978-1-933286-51-8, $18.95 Order by mail, fax, orphone » http://www.brookings.edu/press/orderform.aspx

Korea Puts Development on the Agenda for Seoul G-20 Summit
Center for Global Development CGD Development Update 5th October 2010
http://www.cgdev.org
Seoul hosts the G-20 in November. Development issues will be squarely on the agenda for the firsttime since the top steering group for the global economy was created in the midst of the 2008
financial crisis, according to Ho-young Ahn, South Korea’s Ambassador at large for the G-20.

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Ambassador Ahn spoke at a CGD policy breakfast hosted by CGD president Nancy Birdsall in New
York. Korea’s push to make development issues a central part of the G-20 discussions, which hasbeen agreed by other G-20 participants, was well received by those at the breakfast.
The move marks an important step in the evolution of theG-20. The G-7 (and then G-8) included a substantial
development component in its deliberations, at least interms of aid. As a more inclusive group, the G20 is wellplaced as a high-level forum for leaders to seek
consensus on a range of urgent development policy
challenges. But the group’s origins in the financial crisis—
and the fact that finance ministries continue to shape theagendas—mean that that until now meetings havefocused almost exclusively on finance ministry typeissues and coordinating responses to the crisis
These are important issues, to be sure, but just one sub-set of the many issues that matter to poor
people in the developing world.
Korea is the fourth country to host a G-20 Summit and the first outside the North Atlantic, Anglo
Saxon club. (Previous meetings were held in Washington, London, Pittsburgh, and Toronto). Efforts
to place development policy firmly on the G-20 agenda received a boost in Toronto, when theparticipants agreed to create a G-20 development policy working group, which has since been cochaired by Korea and South Africa. Korea has used that group to float ideas, including an eight-pillar
development agenda and multi-year action plan.
Participants in the CGD breakfast said that France and Mexico both favour including developmenton the G-20 agenda, which increases the likelihood that Korea’s initiative will stick. They also had
plenty of ideas for inclusion in the G-20 development agenda and the multi-year action plan. Among
them: coordinated action to help developing countries recover stolen-assets, that is, retrieve money
looted by corrupt rulers and sent to overseas bank accounts; and a commitment to unilaterally grant
low-income countries true duty-free, quota-free market access, outside of the Doha tradenegotiations process, as a boost to development.
Senior Korean officials appear to be thinking carefully about strengthening the G-20’s ability to follow
through on whatever commitments are made.
http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/09/opening-statements-mdg-debate.html

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has a web page dedicated to theDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The site contains over 20 translations of theDeclaration. http://www.iwgia.org/sw248.asp
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