Global Monitoring Report 2006 : Millennium Development Goals - Strengthening Mutual Accountability, Aid, Trade, and Governance
One decade remains to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international community set out in 2000. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to strengthen...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/04/6740674/global-monitoring-report-2006-millennium-development-goals-strengthening-mutual-accountability-aid-trade-governance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6970 |
| Summary: | One decade remains to meet the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international
community set out in 2000. Yet the world is still far from
achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR)
reviews the efforts under way to strengthen mutual
accountability. Greater resource flows to developing
countries must go hand in hand with measures to make aid
work more effectively. One key element is improving
governance, both in developing countries and globally, to
strengthen accountability for resource use and for
development outcomes. Measuring and monitoring governance,
in support of greater accountability and better MDG
outcomes, is the primary focus of this report. Monitoring
governance can help to clarify options for scaling up
assistance and can support broader efforts to strengthen
transparency and accountability, both nationally and
globally. The report highlights six key actions to
accelerate progress toward the MDGs and strengthen mutual
accountability: Favorable growth has helped reduce poverty,
but more even and accelerated progress requires
strengthening of infrastructure and national investment
climates. Recent progress in human development outcomes
points to the need for more flexible aid, better
coordination, and improved governance. Major aid and debt
relief commitments were made in 2005, but vigilant
monitoring is needed to guard against risks to their
effective implementation. Trade reform needs new life. The
focus of the international financial institutions (IFIs)
must shift from managing inputs to achieving real results on
the ground, but this poses major challenges to both the IFIs
and developing countries. Governance should be regularly
monitored to help track progress, generate greater
accountability, and build demand for further progress. The
international community must support efforts to strengthen
governance systems through ratification and support for
global checks and balances. |
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