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Global Changes and Challenges and their Implications for Development Policy

Global Changes and Challenges and their Implications for Development Policy . Simon Maxwell 23 September 2013. An argument in four steps. The glass is half full not half empty As a result, the pendulum is swinging from the national to the global

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Global Changes and Challenges and their Implications for Development Policy

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  1. Global Changes and Challenges and their Implications for Development Policy Simon Maxwell 23 September 2013

  2. An argument in four steps • The glass is half full not half empty • As a result, the pendulum is swinging from the national to the global • And international development faces new challenges: • What to do about MICs? • Global collective action and the challenge of multilateralism • The competences of development agencies and their place in Government • Making the case and securing pubic support • Post-2015: leading global change

  3. The glass is half full, not half empty

  4. Time to be optimistic? Under – 5 mortality

  5. The pendulum is swinging from the national to the global

  6. The drivers of development GPGs or ‘things we need to fix’

  7. The left-hand side: a national perspective • Focused on aid for poverty reduction and MDGs • Driven by the search for results (often 1.0 not 2.0) • Highlighting openness and transparency • Favouring vertical initiatives (e.g. GAVI) • Prioritising growth (incl agriculture, energy) • Seeking new ways of working with the private sector • Paying more attention to resilience • Rediscovering governance and conditionality • Preferring bilateral over multilateral • Working closely with Gates and other philanthropists • Bringing all this together under the umbrella of aid effectiveness (most recently at Busan)

  8. The right-hand side:things we need to fix globally Natural resource nexus Health pandemics Climate change Financial stability Knowledge Food security Inclusive globalisation Trade rules Conflict Energy security Migration Fisheries

  9. Global Public Goods

  10. An example: climate change http://www.wbgu.de/fileadmin/templates/dateien/veroeffentlichungen/hauptgutachten/jg2011/wbgu_jg2011_en.pdf

  11. The impact of climate change on coffe in Uganda

  12. The new challenges of international development

  13. Development cooperation in the future

  14. What to do about MICs?

  15. LICs and MICs Source: Glennie, J, 2011, ‘The Role of Aid to MICs’, ODI WP 331, June

  16. Global Collective Action and the Challenge of Multilateralism

  17. Delivering global solutions: • Keep the core group small • Build trust • Use the same group for multiple decisions • Use social pressure to deliver network closure • Choose the right issues • Deploy positive incentives • Deploy negative incentives • Build the institutions for repeated interaction

  18. Sweden: Participation in international organisations

  19. The competences of development agencies and their place in Government

  20. Development Cooperation is being re-engineered

  21. The competences of development agencies? (a) Spring (b) Spigot (c) Spoon (d) Spanner

  22. Making the case and securing public support

  23. Post 2015: Leading Change

  24. Universal • Linking development and environment

  25. www.simonmaxwell.eu @simonmaxwell001

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