GLOBAL COOPERATION NEWSLETTER
March 2012
In this edition
Stockholm Joint World Conference Social Work Social Development
Moving to safety: Migration Consequences of Complex Crises
Who is Jim Yong Kim?
End of UK aid programme to India?
UNRISD publications and films
FES publications
Financing for Development Civil Society Forum
Working with ECOSOC – an NGOs Guide to Consultative Status
New Director of the Commonwealth Foundation
Indigenous Women
OECD work in income inequality and growth
UNICEF: “The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World”
ILO highlights “voices of youth on social justice” on world day of social justiceStockholm Joint World Conference Social Work Social Development
Registrations are rolling in and Stockholm hotels are filling so register now. http://www.swsdstockholm-2012.org/

Moving to safety: Migration Consequences of Complex Crises
The International Dialogue on Migration 2012 aims to integrate humanitarian and migration
perspectives in the search for appropriate responses to the migration consequences of complex
crises. The first workshop (Geneva 24th and 25th April) posits that the migration dimensions ofcrises have been insufficiently addressed, both in theory and in practice. Instead of ad hocreactions, more systematic approaches are needed on the part of national and international
institutions to manage the human mobility aspects of crisis situations. For position papers (English,French and Spanish) and details of the workshop go to www.iom.int/idmcomplexcrises

Who is Jim Yong Kim?
Extracts from Ivy Mungcal of Devex 23 March 2012 (full story http://www.devex.com/en)
U.S. President Barack Obama has named Jim Yong Kim as hischoice to succeed Robert Zoellick as World Bank president. The
announcement came as a surprise as Kim’s name had not beenamong the rumored frontrunners. The post has traditionallygone to a banker, politician or diplomat.
Born 1959 in South Korea to a dentist and a theology
professor, Kim was five when his family moved to the small
town of Muscatine, Iowa. He is a Harvard-trained doctor andanthropologist.
Photo by: Eskinder Debebe/UN

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Kim worked at WHO, first in the position of special adviser to then-Director-General Lee Jong-wookand later as head of the U.N. specialised agency’s HIV and AIDS department. There he focused onefforts to scale up prevention, treatment and care programs in developing countries.
Kim chaired the global health and social medicine department at Harvard Medical School.
If elected, Kim would take over a bank whose role in international cooperation is shifting. Under
Zoellick’s tenure, the World Bank has seen a much-needed capital increase, developing countries
gained unprecedented voting power and the bank’s treasure trove of data has been opened to thepublic. The next World Bank president would have to hit the ground running and answer burningquestions, for instance, about the multilateral organisation’s role in promoting good governance,
clean energy usage and other causes.

End of UK aid programme to India?

On 18th March U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell told The
Sunday Times the Department for International Development is “walking the last mile” with India.
Mitchell’s statement comes a month after India announced it will buy the French Rafale fighter jets
over the British-built Typhoon jets. It also comes after reports India’s finance minister described
U.K. aid as “peanuts”.
India receives 280 million pounds ($443 million) annually in U.K. aid — the largest recipient ofBritish bilateral foreign assistance. For the past five years, the UK has spent 1 billion pounds on aid
programs in India, and has committed an additional 600 million pounds in the run up to 2015.

UNRISD publications and films
Development: Greening the Economy, Volume 55, Number 1, March 2012
This edition of Development, in partnership with UNRISD, includes papers presented at the UNRISD
conference "Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social Dimension" ontopics ranging from global crises to grassroots conservation and development projects.
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Two new short films in the series, Green Economy and Sustainable Development
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FES publications
Global Threats and the Role of United Nations Sanctions
Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin, FES International Policy Analysis, December 2011
After the end of the Cold War, the UN Security Council increasingly deployed sanctions as acoercive tool in response to peace and security threats. This International Policy Analysis describes
how sanctions have evolved from a blunt tool to a precision instrument. It analyses the ongoingchallenges to the UN sanction regime and the need to improve the coherence among different
actors, such as national governments, private sector, NGOs and regional organisations. The authors
explain why targeted sanctions are not a panacea and what is needed to improve further UN
sanctions regimes. http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/08819.pdf FES International Policy Analysis
Minding the Gap: Approaches and Challenges to Robust Civilian Protection
Robert Schütte, FES Perspective, December 2011. In the last two decades the international
community's toolbox for the protection of civilians from mass atrocity crimes has evolved gradually.
Today, not only exists a multitude of non-coercive measures, but also a wide array of robust andcoercive forms of intervention. Chapter-VII-mandated Peacekeeping missions or Mass Atrocity
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implementation of civilian protection is currently not at hand, which leads, according to Robert
Schütte, to sketchy mission objectives and ill prepared troop deployment. Schütte argues in favorof a comprehensive and UN-wide doctrine for the protection of civilians, which would explicitly
define the role of civil and military components in protecting civilians in conflict environments.
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/08776.pdf
From Preparations to Negotiations for an Arms Trade Treaty
Katherine Prizeman, FES International Policy Analysis, March 2012. A majority of states is of theopinion that arms transfers should operate according to a common set of international standards.
Hence, there is general support for negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), set to commence inJuly 2012. But as this International Policy Analysis highlights, numerous still-contentious issues
must be addressed regarding the ultimate objective of such a treaty. This publication analyses thecomplex political hurdles towards a legally-binding ATT. Subsequently, possibilities for compromiseand for the investment of political capital that are likely to increase the chances of negotiating arobust ATT are presented. Lastly, it makes the case for establishing solid processes for
implementation and review beyond July 2012. http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/08953.pdf

Financing for Development Civil Society ForumIn late 2011 the UN General Assembly held its 5th High-level Dialogue on Financing forDevelopment (FfD). The vision of FfD endorsed in the Monterrey Consensus 10 years ago is a longway from becoming reality. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), UBUNTU (World Forum of CivilSociety Networks) and the NGO Committee on FfD organised a Civil Society Forum on 6th December
2011 to help civil society prepare for the High-level Dialogue and to discuss both the role that rising
global inequality is having on development as well as how to more effectively link the global andlocal
agendasrelatedtodomestic
resource
mobilisation.
http://www.fesglobalization.org/new_york/upcoming-event-%E2%80%9Cfinancing-for-development-civil-societyforum%E2%80%9D/

Working with ECOSOC – a NGO Guide to Consultative Status
Recently released by the DESA NGO Branch, this guide aims toencourage NGOs to apply for consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It provides basic information
about the different channels in which NGOs can interact with the UN ingeneral and with ECOSOC and its functional commissions.
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3617

New Director of the Commonwealth Foundation
Vijay Krishnarayan has been appointed Director of the Commonwealth Foundation after serving asDeputy Director. A land-use planner by training, he has a special interest in the relationshipbetween development and the environment. Before joining the Commonwealth Foundation in 2006,
he spent over a decade in the Caribbean, most notably as Managing Partner for the Caribbean
Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), one of the region's sustainable development think tanks.
The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation guided by Commonwealthvalues that encourages citizens to act together, learn from each other and conduct dialogue withgovernment. Formed in 1965, it aims to strengthen civil society in the achievement ofCommonwealth priorities including democracy, good governance, sustainable development andcultural diversity.

Indigenous Women
On 9 March 2012, the draft resolution entitled: "Indigenous Women: key actors in poverty andhunger eradication" (E/CN.6/2012/L.6) was adopted at the Commission on the Status of Women at
its Fifty-sixth Session. To view the resolution, go to the "What's New" section of the homepage,www.un.org/indigenous and click on the link "Adoption of a Resolution on Indigenous Women".
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OECD work in income inequality and growth
Can less income inequality and more growth both be achieved? A recent OECD study sheds newlight on the link between policies that boost growth and the distribution of income. It suggests that
there are win-win policy options: raising human capital is key, labour market reforms can help andtaxation can be made more equitable and growth friendly. But there are also reforms that lead to a
trade-off between growth and equity
http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,3746,en_2649_34113_49331311_1_1_1_1,00.html (Free)
Please note that Global Cooperation has ceased advising readers of OECD “for sale” publications as
it is unlikely that many of our readers can afford them. For instance a useful publication
Perspectives on Global Development 2012 Social Cohesion in a Shifting World is priced at €60. The
editor made unsuccessful representations to the OECD to introduce a price differentiation forresidents of developing countries.

UNICEF: “The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World”
The State of the World’s Children, the annual flagship report of
the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is this year
dedicated to “Children in an Urban World,” drawing attention to
the realities that confront an increasing number of children inurban areas, including the challenges they face and the main
urban problems that affect their lives.
The report also presents a number of examples of initiatives that try to improve the quality of life ofthese children and identifies policies that are needed to address urban disparities.
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3780
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/files/SOWC_2012-Main_Report_EN_21Dec2011.pdf

ILO highlights “voices of youth on social justice” on world day of social justice
On 20 February, World Day of Social Justice, the International Labour
Organization (ILO) launched the video “Voices of Youth on Social
Justice” which features the voices of young people explaining what social
justice means to them, what challenges they face and their message tothe international community.
The video is part of a campaign inviting young people to share their own views on social justice –whether in the form of a message of hope, a call of action, or in the form of advice. Moreover, itjoins a series of perspectives on what social justice means and how it might be achieved in theyears to come. These will be added throughout 2012.
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3776
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UHlNOBMecg&list=PLFCB380AFEAF2D1D7&index=1&feature=plpp_video
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