|
Tuesday, 23 September
|
|
Local Poverty Reduction and MDG Localization
|
Members of the session's first panel.
|
Alex Magereko, Kasese Local Government, emphasized public-private partnerships, awareness raising, and involving community-based organizations.
|
Rodrigo Costa da Rocha Lourse, State of Paraná Industry Federation, emphasized aligning MDGs with public policy and sensitizing state and municipal authorities.
|
Mel Senen Sarmiento, Mayor of Calbayog City, Philippines, said localization means making the MDGs relevant at the local level and to each individual.
|
Nalangu Taki, Narok Community Group, Kenya, said poverty and hunger are the main grassroots problems.
|
Minar Pimple, Millennium Campaign in Asia, emphasized local monitoring of MDGs.
|
Members of the session's second panel.
|
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, noted the spirit of solidarity in the MDGs initiative.
|
Colm Cuanacháin, Action Aid International, noted the distinction between top-down sensitization and bottom-up mobilization, and said hunger was the litmus test for MDG implementation. |
|
The Equity Challenge
|
Members of the panel, moderated by Andrew Jack of The Financial Times.
|
Peter Piot, UNAIDS, urged strengthening of social systems, including efforts to prevent HIV and protect those orphaned by AIDS.
|
Julian Lob-Levyt, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), highlighted the possibility of school-based health programmes to deliver vaccines.
|
Tedros Adhanom, Minister of Health, Ethiopia, emphasized the importance of equity issues, including the geographical and temporal dimensions of access to health services and their affordability.
|
|
Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs
|
Panelists during the session.
|
Angela Cropper, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP and United Nations Assistant-Secretary General, introduced the event.
|
Ad Melkert, Associate Administrator, UNDP and UN Under-Secretary General, emphasized that climate change must be tackled as an aspect of human development.
|
Puka Temu, Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, noted that hardly any funds have been mobilized for the environment to achieve the MDGs.
|
Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute, lamented that environmental issues are often neglected during financial crises.
|
Richard Carey, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, highlighted the Accra Agenda for Action, on implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
|
Kevin Conrad, Coalition for Rainforest Nations, described efforts to get avoided deforestation recognized within climate change agreements.
|
|
Around the Partnership Events
|
Media filled a room to watch and report on speeches by world leaders including Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy of France and George W. Bush of the US.
|
A participant viewed the exhibit "Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo 1977-2007" in the UN building.
|
