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nomic, social and environmental development, promoting progressive integration
of developing countries in the global economy and the will to offset
all imbalances.
The development policy of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and
of bilateral aid agencies must therefore reinforce poverty reduction strategies,
with their different dimensions, and aim at consolidating democratic
process, peace and conflict prevention, development of social policies, integration
of social and environmental objectives into programmes for macroeconomic
reforms, taking into account gender issues, reforming or favouring
the advent of an adequate institutional framework, capacity building
among public and private stakeholders and developing a preparedness to
counter natural disasters.
Need for a consultation framework stressing real equality
between partners
Both beneficiary and donor countries must be able to exchange ideas in an
adequate framework for mutual ownership on a reciprocal basis. Ownership
by partner countries of strategies for their development is essential to achieve
success. It must be emphasized that effective involvement of all actors (civil
society, private economic stakeholders, governments, development agencies,
embassies etc.) is essential.
To this end, the involvement of the largest sections possible of the society
must be encouraged to ensure more equity, a share for poor people of
the benefits of growth, and the reinforcement of the democratic process.
The commitments made by both developing and industrialized countries
during major United Nations conferences constitute a common reference
framework for the type of development, which underlines social and human
aspects, and the durable management of natural resources and the environment.
The impact of an adequate consultation framework on the quality of
dialogue among partners needs no longer to be explained. This dialogue must
ensure cohesion between policies led by a given country and multilateral
and/or bilateral assistance. It must also address the conditions for efficient
co-operation aimed specifically at capacity building and good governance in
the partner country to ensure transparent and responsible management of
all resources earmarked for development. These parameters must be taken
into account so that resources are allocated in such a way that they go to
where there are greater opportunities for efficient and durable poverty reduction.