Second session of the High-Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development, 14-18 November 2005, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Background

As requested by the Working Group the mandate of the task force was to consider Millennium Development Goal 8, on global partnership for development, and to suggest criteria for its periodic evaluation with the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnerships with regard to the realization of the right to development.

List of documents:

• Report of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development on its second meeting   E F S A C R
• Provisional agenda
• Annotations to the provisional Agenda
• Draft Programme of Work
• Preliminary concept note
• Background and reference documents
• Draft Background Paper 1: The right to development and practical strategies for the implementation of MDGs, particularly MDG 8
• Draft Background Paper 2: Millennium Development Goal 8: indicators for monitoring implementation
• Draft Background Paper 3: Summary of submissions

State submissions:

• Germany
• Kenya
• Russian Federation
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

Others:

• The right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• A Human Rights perspective on the Millennium Development Goals: paper prepared as a contribution to the work of the Millennium Project Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development
• The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• Who Synthesis
• Study paper 1: Mapping Global Health Partnerships
• Study paper 2: Economic and financial aspects of the global health partnerships
• Study paper 3: Global health partnership impact on commodity princing and security
• Study paper 4: Global health partnerships and neglected diseases
• Study paper 5: Global health partnerships increasing their impact by improved governance
• Study paper 6: The determinants of effectiveness: partnerships that deliver review of the GHP and 'business' literature
• Study paper 7: Assessing the impact of global health partnerships
• Study paper 8: The product development pathway
• Submission OCHR through ACUNS
• The political economy of peacebuilding: a critical theory perspective
• Parliamentary Involvement in International Affairs: A report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to the Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments New York, 7-9 September, 2005
• A Partnership for Development: International Human Rights Law as an Assessment Instrument
• Submission to the task-force on the implementation of the right to development whithin the framework of the Working Group on the Right to Development
• Briefing note to the 2nd Session of the UN High-Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development