Fourth session of the High-Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development, 7-15 January 2008, Palais des Nations Room XXI, Geneva

Background

The fourth task force session considered continued progress made towards application of the criteria to selected partnerships. The session focused on the various missions conducted by the task force in implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group in its eighth session, to assess selected partnerships, namely following up on the African Peer Review Mechanism, the ECA/OECD-DAC Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and as a new partnership for assessment, the Cotonou Partnership Agreement between EU and ACP countries. Apart from the missions, the session also discussed potential additional partnerships for assessment and the progressive development and refinement of the criteria.

List of documents

• Report of the task force on the implementation of the right to development, fourth session
  A | C | E | F | R | S
• Provisional agenda A | C | F | S | R
• Draft Programme of work
• Consultant report - Application of the criteria for periodic evaluation of global development partnerships, as defined in Millennium Development Goal 8, from the right-to-development perspective: further analysis of the African Peer Review Mechanism and the ECA/OECD-DAC Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in the context of NEPAD - prepared by Ms. Bronwen Manby (revised)
• Consultant report - Application of the criteria for periodic evaluation of global development partnerships – as defined in Millennium Development Goal 8 – from the right to development perspective: the Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the European Union and ACP Countries - prepared by Prof. James Thuo Gathii
• Consultant report - Application of the criteria for periodic evaluation of global development partnerships – as defined in Millennium Development Goal 8 – from the right to development perspective: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness - prepared by Mr. Roberto Bissio
• Mission reports – 1-4:

1. Technical mission - Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
2. Technical mission - ECA/OECD-DAC Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness
3. Technical mission- African Peer Review Mechanism
4. Technical mission - Cotonou Partnership Agreement between European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)

• Short biographies of the task force members