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Middle East / North Africa and the Millennium Development Goals But the most serious weaknesses in Germany’s DC with the MENA countries must be seen in its conceptual underpinning and documentation. The BMZ’s country concepts and priority strategy papers have hardly a word to say about the MDGs and Germany’s contribution to implementing them. While it is true that many of the goals set out in these documents are in line with the general thrust of the MDG agenda, they are not sufficiently clear about this. Moreover, many BMZ papers do not adequately indicate the extent to which the projects and programs of German DC serve higher-level goals. This is not even looked into ex post; thus far German DC has not been subjected to an MDG-specific impact analysis in one single partner country. There is also good reason to take a critical view of the German contribution to implementing MDG8 (although this goes not specifically for Germany’s commitments in the MENA but for the whole of German DC, or indeed for all of Germany’s external policies). While the German government is highly committed to the interests of developing countries in many different fields (trade, international financial markets, debt relief, etc.), German ODA still lags behind the target level of 0.7 % of GNP, which was set in the 1970s. Furthermore, Germany earmarks considerably smaller shares of its ODA than other donors for (i) the least-developed countries (LDCs) and (ii) basic social services (primary education, primary health care, food, drinking water, and sewage disposal). Recommendations for the future The German government has declared that “the MDGs and the Millennium Declaration constitute the binding frame of reference for German development policy” (Bundesregierung 2004, 1). This permits us to derive the following recommendations for future German DC with MENA countries: – The BMZ’s strategy papers should better document how the German DC is contributing or expected to contribute to the implementation of the MDGs in its partner countries. – MDG-specific impact analyses should be carried out regularly to check whether a given contribution to implementing the MDGs has in fact been achieved. This goes above all for WiRAM, where it would be important to examine critically and to document in more depth the poverty-related impacts of German DC. German Development Institute 15
16 Markus Loewe – The dialogue with partner countries must be focused more than in the past on implementing the MDGs. This should mean above all calling for (i) a greater measure of poverty orientation in economic policy, (ii) reforms in the field of governance, and (iii) a greater commitment in the field of gender equality. – German DC should concentrate more on countries and sectors in which problem urgency is especially marked while the situation is otherwise characterized by a sufficiently high problem-solving disposition and limited problem-solving capacities on the part of partner countries. What this could mean in effect is that German DC might consider e.g. stepping up its engagement in Mauritania (as well as in other countries) in the fields of (i) democratization and good governance, (ii) gender equality, and (iii) quality of primary education. – Finally, it is important not to lose sight of MDG8. This means to raise the German ODA quota substantially and to direct a greater share of the funds provided to the LDCs as well as to basic social services. German Development Institute
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