The leaders emphasized the need for coordinated
efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which aim to end
poverty and hunger, increase access to education and health care, improve
gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability.
“Nothing could be more important than ensuring young
people get the right start in life. We aim to make 2015 the year in which
children no longer negotiate access to basic education, mothers to the most
basic health care, households to water and sanitation, or girls to the most
fundamental opportunities for schooling, work, or voice in their communities.
And we aim to ensure these gains are permanently sustained in the post-2015
era” said Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank.
The leaders pledged strong support for and
collaboration with the UN-led process of defining the Post-2015 Development
Framework.
They voiced support for an approach that integrates
concepts of economic, social and environmental sustainability. Noting that even
recent gains in social indicators are at risk in the absence of a long term
financing plan, leaders pledged to work together to develop options for long
term investment to strengthen the
foundations of growth.
They called for a renewed focus on financing for
development - with greater leveraging of official development assistance and
private sector investment, as well as better domestic resource mobilization and
management and stronger institutions.
They pledged cooperation to build the statistical
capacity of governments, to enable better policies, for example by deploying
the latest techniques for monitoring poverty and inequality, and factoring
natural wealth accounting into decision making.
“We are at a critical time where working together,
we can bend the arc of history - eliminating absolute poverty, boosting shared
prosperity, and defining a pattern of growth that demonstrates that we care for
our planet and all its people” said Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank
Group.
“In these tough economic times, we’ll only reach our
goals by pulling together. We will work with a wide variety of partners to
reach our goals, thoughtfully and creatively. Civil society, business, and
government need to think and work together.
“Our institutions aim to create an atmosphere for
open dialogue and imaginative solutions to emerge” added Luis Alberto Moreno,
President of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Issues of inclusive growth, environmental
sustainability, and long term financing are global in nature. They affect
richer and poorer countries alike.
Recognizing this, the leaders of the Institutions
welcomed the G-20 and G-8 analysis of related issues, and committed to
harnessing their own institutions’ analytical and convening power to identify
solutions to such pressing global issues, and making developing country issues
thoroughly and clearly understood.
“Recent economic crises, which have put so many
people at a risk of falling into poverty, mean we need to do more to promote
macroeconomic stability, and to build strong and transparent financial systems.
The very large gaps in development finance mean
we’ll need to search for ever better ways to encourage investment, including
building more resilient and effective financial systems to support more
effective domestic resource mobilization and management” said Min Zhu, Deputy
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
The leaders committed to excellence in management
and organization of their own institutions. In this respect they shared
experiences with organizational change, and reiterated their commitments to the
highest standards in serving clients, excellence in staffing and professional
development, and collaboration on the ground among the Institutions.
“The development challenges we face at the global
and national levels are of such scale that we must work together. It’s not only
a question of financial resources, but of ensuring we can deliver the best
available knowledge, best people, and best models of cooperation to our
clients.
They expect nothing less, and we aim to deliver
nothing short of their expectations” said Suma Chakrabarti, President of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Ends.
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