Jon Lomoy of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development offers some insights on how to achieve Millennium Development Goal 8.
“The global development partnership of the MDG 8, is about capturing the totality of development financing, but also about tracking aid deliveries compared to commitments, it is about making aid work better, and about using aid to support countries that have got their policies right, and about helping countries to get their policies right by sharing experiences,” Lomoy, director of OECD’s development cooperation directorate, writes in the blog, “Ideas for Development.”
Building a global partnership for development requires the sharing of “different traditions of development cooperation,” whether through North-North cooperation or South-South, Lomoy said.
Development partnerships should also involve not only governments but also the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians and local governments, he added. It must also be based on evidence.
Lomoy noted that OECD’s Working Party on Aid Effectiveness adheres to these principles.
The working party has 80 member nations and is co-chaired by a representative from a donor institution and one from a developing country, Lomoy explained. The party also puts a premium on country-led development initiatives and ensures mutual accountability by encouraging donors and developing countries to “walk the talk” when it comes to meeting their commitments, he added.