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Financial Aid: Facilitate capital access, productive
inversions, preferential credit lines draw to imports, exchange,
buyback or remission of debts, microcredit.
Technical Assistance: Strengthening of technical
skills and capabilities on the southern countries,
exchange of experiences and knowledge among any
countries.
Humanitarian Action: Food aid, relief, human rights
protection, accompaniment of victims, political pressure,
denunciation, preparation, prevention and mitigation
of natural disasters, epidemics, armed conflicts and
wars.
Scientific and Technological Cooperation: transference
and exchange of technologies applied to basic
services on education, health and sanitation, scholarships
and joint research.
Every State looking forward to reaching the MDGs,
before changing its policies towards this conclusion,
needs to find what are the other actors involved in this
scenery, what are their needs and how can the state
make them stronger. Assisting other actors towards the
same goal means that voice is being provided to every
actor which is capable, most of the time, to depict some
specific problems better than the government can by
itself, thus, and by working together with other actors
more effective policies can be developed.
The civil society is one of the actors that has an important
role working alongside the government once it
is capable of making pressure over the government in
order to make them aware of the society’s needs, and
in order to get what is needed. The civil society can also
count on the NGO’s help or the community’s to identify
problems, to provide solutions and policies which can
be pursued by the government. The private sector also
follows this path of cooperation however it has got one
more thing it can count on. The private sector can improve
lives’ standards by supporting development projects
in the region. These projects, most of the times, are
more effective as we can find a tighter control over the
resources provided for these projects from the private
sector. Having bigger responsibility and efficiency to
distribute resources and assistance available, the path
to development becomes shorter.
The international organisms are essential to the
world in order to make it reach a better standard of living.
They appear in this scenery as a “multilateral forum”,
it means they are the providers of a space where countries
meet to expose their problems and share their experiences,
after becoming members of an international
organism, a country can share with the others the advices,
solutions and programs offered in the organism.
Each organism has a special task; it means it develops
knowledge over one target within certain issues. For
example, if the country needs know-how and best practices
lessons to develop its industries, it goes to United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO),
which can provide assistance. If the country is looking
for financial assistance it goes to the World Bank for example.
Or if the intention is to learn and share best practices
on development, it goes to the UNDP.
To join the UNDP, however, a State must be democratic,
with strong and functional public institutions in order
to avoid corruption towards the management of assistance
which gets in the country, and in order to make
the process of cooperation among all the actors present
easier and avoiding “structural problems”. Besides
a strong governmental structure, cooperation among
the actors present in the country, that has already been
cited, is fundamental to follow the path to the MDGs
and finally until development. The eighth goal has six
targets to be reached by 2015 as follows bellow:
1. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory trading and financial system,
including a commitment to good governance, development,
and poverty reduction, nationally and internationally.
2. Address the special needs of least developed
countries, (including tariff- and quota-free access for
exports of the least-development countries; enhanced
debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries committed
and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more
generous official assistance for countries committed to
reducing poverty)
3. Address the special needs of landlocked countries
and small island developing states (though the
Program of Action for the Sustainable Development
of Small Island Developing States and the 22nd special
session of the General Assembly)
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