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World Bank |
World Bank and
President of
the World Bank
 In the global fight against poverty, the World Bank
is—and
should be—playing a central role. The Bank’s
strategy
continues to focus on the two pillars for poverty
reduction: empowering people and improving the
investment
climate. These pillars support the Bank’s
Country Assistance
Strategies and are reflected in the
Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers of poorer countries
and the development
strategies of wealthier ones. The
Bank continued its
client-oriented approach this year, supporting development of Poverty Reduction
Strategy
Papers in low-income
countries that receive IDA credits, and doing more to tailor its lending
instruments for
middle-income countries
that borrow from the International
Bank for Reconstruction
and Development
(IBRD). We are also
continuing to work with countries
experiencing weak
policies, institutions, and often
internal conflict
through a special initiative known as
Low-Income Countries
under Stress.
Donor
partnerships
are critical to
success.
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative
gained momentum
this year, with progress toward its goal of cutting poor countries’ debt to
manageable
levels. Twenty-seven
countries—two-thirds of those
eligible—are now
participating and are receiving debt
relief that will total
more than $52 billion from all creditors over time. With our partners, we are
working
to move beyond debt
relief to debt sustainability.
On the AIDS front, the Bank joined with the United
Nations
Children’s Fund; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria;
and the Clinton
Foundation to provide
generic drugs at a fraction of the current cost. We are also working with
partners to
develop HIV/AIDS
prevention programs in countries
with high risk.
One highlight of the year was the development conference
we co-hosted
with the Chinese government in
Shanghai, the
culmination of nine months of studying
development
experiences. Leaders from developing
countries shared their
successes and failures with other
leaders. We learned
that feeling good about individual
projects is not enough.
We learned that we must “scale
up” our development
efforts. It is not 10 schools we
are trying to help
build. It is 10,000 schools. It is not 5 bridges we are trying to help
construct. It is
5,000 bridges. It is
not thousands of people we are trying to support. It is billions of people.
We at the World
Bank believe that the disadvantaged of the world should be seen not as objects
of
charity but as assets
in the fight against poverty. We believe
overcoming poverty is a
moral, social, economic,
and security
imperative. We will continue to state this
view loud and clear as
we work tirelessly to support all
who seek to achieve the
Millennium Development
Goals.
James D.Wolfensohn
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The World
Food Summit
The 1996 World Food Summit Plan of Action and the 2000
Millennium Development Goals set the stage for establishing and supporting
hunger-fighting activities on a global scale. The World Food Summit’s Rome
Declaration set the goal of reducing world hunger by half by the year 2015. The
United Nations identified reducing hunger and poverty as its Millennium
Development Goal number one.
In 2002, when the World Food Summit: five years later convened to look at
progress, delegates became acutely aware of the need to work together to
accelerate the global effort if they were to reach the Food Summit and
Millennium Development Goals. In fact, the final declaration of the Summit
was entitled “The International Alliance Against Hunger”. The declaration
set in motion the initial steps for establishing a global partnership, under
whose umbrella national, regional and cultural boundaries would disappear, with
individuals and organizations from all parts of the world and all levels of
involvement coming together, to support, to share, to inform and to inspire each
other to work together in reaching World Food Summit and the Millennium
Development Goals.
The initial working group, formed in late 2002, consisted of representatives of
the four Rome-based UN food agencies. It expanded to include representatives of
NGOs and CSOs, becoming an all-volunteer inter-agency ad hoc working group
concentrating on drawing up a strategy for guiding the International Alliance.
The International Alliance Against Hunger was born as a voluntary partnership
for combining the strengths of local, national and international governmental
and non-governmental organizations, service and religious organizations, the
private sector and concerned individuals with the common mission of working to
eradicate hunger on our planet. Participants recognize that a united effort can
present a much more powerful message to political, social and economic leaders
who make decisions on advocacy, resource mobilization and development
strategies.
Many nations have made verbal commitments to fight hunger, but few have been
able to do enough. Through the National Alliances that are being formed with the
support of the International Alliance and its partners, nations will now have a
new level of unified support as they work to create the policy environment,
provide the funding and implement the programmes that will provide their
citizens the tools they need to overcome hunger and poverty.
The results-oriented International Alliance occupies a strategic position for
making a contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, especially
those aimed at reducing hunger and poverty and for building partnerships, but
also those for health, education, gender and sustainable use of natural
resources. Supporting achievement of these goals also puts the Alliance in a
position to work to reduce political exclusion, especially the exclusion of
ethnic minorities, rural people in general, women and youth. Its ultimate
success will depend on its ability to give expression to the aspirations of the
poor and hungry and to engage them as full partners in finding and implementing
solutions that will make a real difference to their lives.
Aims
The aims of the IAAH are:
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to
contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, especially by
strengthening national and global commitment and action to end hunger
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to give
expression to the aspirations of the poor and hungry
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to engage
the poor and hungry as full partners in finding and implementing solutions
that make a real difference to their lives and the lives of generations to
come
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to
facilitate dialogue on the most effective measures to reduce hunger
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to promote
mutually supportive action involving governments and other stakeholders in the
fight against hunger
The functions of the IAAH are:
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to serve as
a powerful and effective advocate for eradication of hunger and poverty
throughout the world
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to nurture
the emergence and growth of strong National Alliances Against Hunger
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to amplify
and add value to the contributions and capacities of all International
Alliance members
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Sources:
http://www.iaahp.net/intern_en.html
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