Global Call to Action against Poverty and Aid
GCAP believes rich donor governments and international institutions must urgently provide the major increase in the quantity and quality of resources necessary for the eradication of poverty and promote social justice, the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, gender equality and guarantee the rights of children and youth.
These resources must also support sustainable development, workers’ rights, migrants’ rights and the interests of marginalized groups including indigenous peoples. Resources must work to rebuild, not undermine governments and the public sector, enabling them to deliver on the rights of their citizens.
We call on donor governments and international institutions to:
- Meet and exceed the 0.7% aid target, directed to achieving community and country defined poverty eradication and sustainable development priorities that contribute to poverty eradication and sustainable development.
- Implement innovative international taxes and mechanisms for raising finance for development which is additional to 0.7% ODA-obligations.
- Implement and improve the Paris Declaration to deliver long-term, predictable, harmonised and effective aid. Aid should not be tied to contracts with companies of donor countries or linked to economic conditions that harm people, communities and the environment.
- Ensure gender sensitive progress assessments, performance monitoring and indicators for aid effectiveness.
- Meet international pledges on Education for All, Polio, Malaria, TB and the universal access to HIV/ AIDS, prevention, treatment and care, including through funding of the multi-lateral Fast Track Initiative and Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria.
- Establish a fair and just world order in which International Financial Institutions (especially the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organisation) operate within the broad principles enshrined under UN commitments and human rights obligations to better regulate the world economy.
GCAP Strategic Directions: Aid
GCAP has developed its strategic thinking for the years 2009-11, read the whole document, or the extract focusing on Aid Objectives and Outcomes.
Find out more
- Access all the news, press releases, blog posts, links, images and other content related to Aid on whiteband.org
- Read more on CSO's critical approach to aid effectiveness
- Read the 2007 Quezon City Declaration on Aid
- Read the insights from IPC: "Does Aid Work?-for the MDGs" (Poverty In Focus # 12. October 2007)
- Some important external links:
Aid - GCAP Works!
Success stories from the Global Call to Action against Poverty related to Aid around the world.
- The Canadian government passed the Better Aid bill, improving the quality of Canadian foreign development aid.
- The better aid bill was passed by the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa in 2008, putting a stop to untransparent aid practices that allow things like military spending to be counted as ‘aid’. The bill promotes accountability, stating that the government has to report annually on the status of the Canadian Aid Programme as well as reporting what the Canadian representatives are saying at the World Bank and IMF meetings.
Aid Content
- Put People First: G20 Counter Conference Saturday 7 November 2009 Westminster Central Hall - London
- On 7 November, as the G20 returns to the UK, the agenda is to nurse an already failed economic model back to life, while looking to sew up an unjust international climate deal outside the UN process.
- Indian People hold Mid Term Appraisal of the Government's Five Year Plan
- Five Year Plans play an important role in India’s model of economic development by providing the overall direction and basic framework for policies, programmes and schemes for the Ministries and Departments and is also the basis for the Annual Plans. Organizations, including GCAP India's Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, have held the People’s Mid Term Appraisal to involve people in the assessment of the targets set in the Eleventh Five Year Plan.
- Fun rally with a serious message stops downtown Madrid
- The march saw groups from every part of the political spectrum carry a range of messages about trade justice, debt cancellation, hunger and the MDGs. The overriding message, that the global crisis could not be the excuse to the developed world for reneging on their commitments to the poorest. The spotlight shone brightest on the Spanish government of course, who’s commitment to reaching 0.7% of GNI in aid is being monitored by civil society against the backdrop of a recession and rapidly rising national unemployment.
- I am standing up this weekend.......
- "My name is Angie Farrugia and I will be standing up at various points over the weekend of the 16th in Malta". Hear what GCAP campaigners around the world are planning to do this weekend to be counted as part of the mass mobilisation Stand Up.
- I am standing up this weekend.......
- "My name is Toko Tomita, I will be standing up as part of a big rally in Tokyo alongside our special guests from Benin and Uganda". Hear what GCAP campaigners around the world are planning to do this weekend to be counted as part of the mass mobilisation Stand Up.
