World Bank, OECD, and WIPO Development Efforts

On March 2, 2005, prior to the five-year review by the UN of the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs, ministers from developed and developing countries responsible for promoting development, and heads of multi-lateral and bilateral development institutions adopted the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

The signatories to the Paris Declaration resolved to take far-reaching and measurable actions to reform and make more effective the ways that development aid is delivered and managed. As a framework for taking such actions, the signatories agreed to the following five Partnership Commitments:

• Partner countries (i.e., those receiving aid) exercise effective leadership over their development policies and strategies and coordinate development actions;
• Donors (i.e., those delivering aid) base their overall support on partner countries’ national development strategies, institutions and procedures;
• Donors’ actions are more harmonized, transparent and collectively effective; and
• Managing resources and improving decision-making for results.

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), of which the United States is a member, publishes an annual Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration.

Likewise, the World Bank, through its Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), has been at the forefront of conducting development activities in accordance with the intent and guidelines of the Paris Declaration and Partnership Commitments. The CDF is designed to help countries achieve more effective poverty reduction. It emphasizes the interdependence of all elements of development - social, structural, human, governance, environmental, economic, and financial.

To assess the status of country efforts to develop and implement operational development strategies and results-oriented frameworks for policymaking, the World Bank is deeply involved in an ongoing review process.

Historically, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has not been involved in development. WIPO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest. The 1967 WIPO Convention established WIPO with a mandate from its Member States to promote the protection of IP throughout the world through cooperation among states and in collaboration with other international organizations. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 2004, Argentina and Brazil proposed the establishment of a development agenda for WIPO. In June 2007, the WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a Development Agenda (PCDA) adopted recommendations to be considered at the 2007 WIPO General Assembly.

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