Economic Relations Division is going to host an international workshop in Dhaka today on post-Millennium Development Goal on the global partnership for effective development cooperation.
The three-day workshop titled ‘Asia Workshop on the global partnership for effective development cooperation: links to the post-2015 development agenda,’ will be held at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city.
Government representatives from a number of countries in the Asia pacific region including South Korea, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Maldives, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Timor Liste, members of the global partnership steering committee, representatives from regional platforms and building blocks and delegates from OECD/UNDP joint team will attend the workshop.
The workshop is expected to yield a common plan of action for Asia in support of the principles embedded in the Busan partnership at regional level, ERD officials said.
The participants will discuss the formalisation of a consultative and inclusive regional peer support facility to strengthen mutual collaboration and knowledge transfer between the countries of Asia, they said.
‘The aim of the workshop is to assist the Asian countries to enhance development cooperation particularly in the context of transitioning from the MDG to the post-2015 development agenda,’ ERD secretary Abul Kalam Azad told at a news conference in the capital on Saturday.
Additional secretary Arastoo Khan and other ERD senior officials were present at the news conference.
‘The findings of the workshop will be presented in the upcoming global partnership ministerial meeting to be held in Mexico in 2014 to provide feedback from Asia to influence the post-MDG agenda and strengthen support towards the implementation of the Busan partnership,’ Azad said.
The aid effectiveness movement has picked up momentum in recent decades. A number of high forums have been organised to promote the aid effectiveness agenda at the global level, the latest of which was held in 2011 in Busan of South Korea.
In that forum, the global partnership for effective development cooperation was endorsed and consequently a Global Partnership Forum emerged. It has a steering committee of which Bangladesh is a member representing the Asian region.
-With New Age input
