<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crosposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
<br><br>
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<br></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Department for International Development</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for International Development by Command of Her Majesty</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">UK</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> July 2009<br>
<br></span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online PDF [150p.] at: <a href="http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/whitepaper/building-our-common-future-print.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/whitepaper/building-our-common-future-print.pdf</span></font></a> <br>
<br></span></font><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The White Paper represents a fundamental shift in the way the UK delivers development aid, refocusing resources onto fragile countries and for the first time treating security and justice as a basic service alongside health, education, water and sanitation. Fifty per cent of new bilateral funding will be committed to fragile countries.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Key announcements in Building our Common Future include:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A renewed commitment to 0.7 per cent of UK Gross National Income (GNI) for international development, meaning a contribution of £9bn per year by 2013; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Measures to reduce maternal mortality rates and potentially save the lives of six million mothers and babies by 2015; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Plans to support over eight million more children in Africa go to school; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Doubling of funding to £1bn for African infrastructure including transport, energy and trade in the region; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A tripling of funding to support developing countries to recover stolen assets, and new resources to Interpol, as part of a major effort to stamp out corruption; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Increased investment in the Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian aid at the UN</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On fragile countries:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Helping to ensure that security and justice are treated as a basic service – alongside health, education, water and sanitation – in the developing world with funding tripled to £120 m by 2014. This will include training police officers, setting up law courts and protecting women from violence </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A focus on jobs in five of the most vulnerable countries - Yemen, Nepal, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Afghanistan – where 7.5 million people will benefit from jobs and economic opportunities</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On growth and trade:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A quadrupling of funding to promote fair and ethical trade </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A new International Growth Centre to offer world class economic expertise and practical advice to poor countries;</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On climate change:</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Renewed commitment to £800m to support climate adaptation, low carbon growth and protection of forests; </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><font face="Symbol" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The piloting of new low carbon innovation centres and a global climate change knowledge network.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="FrutigerLTStd-Bold" color="navy" size="4"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 15pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: FrutigerLTStd-Bold"><br></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Contents</span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Foreword </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Preface </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 1: Poverty Reduction in an Interdependent World </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 2: Promoting Economic Recovery and Greener Growth </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 3: Sustaining our Common Future</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 4: Building Peaceful States and Societies </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The challenge of conflict and fragility </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A new approach: prioritising peace and state-building </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Treating security and justice as a basic service </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Generating economic opportunities and managing natural resources </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Working across government </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Working internationally to lay the foundations for peace</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 5: Keeping our Promises in a Downturn </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Financing the MDGs </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Financing the delivery of basic services </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Where next on malaria? </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Supporting capable, accountable and responsive states </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A new education strategy </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Maternal and child health </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Chapter 6: Acting Together through the International System </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chapter 7: Transforming our Impact and Ensuring Value for Money </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Conclusion – Shared Interests, Shared Values, One Endeavour </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Annex: Will the Millennium Development Goals be met?</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Glossary 1</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">End Notes<br><br></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p></div></div></div>