Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

The Glob­al Part­ner­ship for Effec­tive Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion (GPEDC) was estab­lished at the Fourth High Lev­el Forum on Aid Effec­tive­ness in Busan, South Korea, in 2011. It was launched with the ambi­tion of being the main mul­ti-stake­hold­er coop­er­a­tion plat­form for advanc­ing the devel­op­ment effec­tive­ness (DE) agen­da in order to con­tribute to the achieve­ment of the SDGs. At the Busan forum, the four prin­ci­ples of effec­tive­ness were for­mal­ly set out. These are: (i) coun­try own­er­ship of devel­op­ment pri­or­i­ties by part­ner coun­tries and align­ment with their poli­cies, sys­tems and pro­ce­dures; (ii) focus on results; (iii) inclu­sive part­ner­ships; and (iv) trans­paren­cy and account­abil­i­ty to one another.

The GPEDC aims to over­come the dichoto­my between the so-called ​“donor coun­tries” and ​“recip­i­ent coun­tries” by open­ing up in par­tic­u­lar to the emerg­ing coun­tries as the main pro­tag­o­nists of South-South and tri­an­gu­lar coop­er­a­tion, to civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions, to the pri­vate sec­tor and to phil­an­thropic foun­da­tions. The GPEDC has also offi­cial­ly estab­lished a mech­a­nism to peri­od­i­cal­ly mea­sure and mon­i­tor progress on com­mit­ments to imple­ment the prin­ci­ples of devel­op­ment effec­tive­ness, in line with part­ner coun­tries’ pri­or­i­ties. This glob­al mon­i­tor­ing frame­work (Glob­al Mon­i­tor­ing Round), with com­mon indi­ca­tors, bench­marks, tar­gets and objec­tives, should allow com­par­isons between coun­tries over time to demon­strate the results and impacts of imple­ment­ing the prin­ci­ples of effec­tive­ness and should thus fos­ter mutu­al account­abil­i­ty among devel­op­ment partners.

At the mid­point of Agen­da 2030, the 2022 High-Lev­el Sum­mit on Effec­tive Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion, organ­ised by the GPEDC and held from 12 to 14 Decem­ber 2022 in Gene­va, high­light­ed how effec­tive coop­er­a­tion strength­ens trust and has revi­talised the DE agen­da both sub­stan­tive­ly and oper­a­tional­ly. At this sum­mit, the four prin­ci­ples of DE were con­firmed and con­sol­i­dat­ed by six pri­or­i­ty areas of action in 2022, in par­tic­u­lar social pro­tec­tion and inclu­sion, com­bat­ing pover­ty and eco­nom­ic recov­ery, mul­ti-part­ner­ship and inclu­sive approach­es, strength­en­ing nation­al capac­i­ties, strength­en­ing nation­al sta­tis­tics as well as strength­en­ing the GPEDC. The fourth glob­al mon­i­tor­ing cycle was for­mal­ly launched at the sum­mit after ambi­tious reforms of the mon­i­tor­ing frame­work (the indi­ca­tors mea­sured) and its process (the mea­sure­ment method).

Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to speak vir­tu­al­ly at the sum­mit dur­ing the ple­nary ses­sion on ​“Tack­ling the Mul­ti­ple Chal­lenges: Strength­en­ing Health Sys­tems, Food Secu­ri­ty and Socio-Eco­nom­ic Recov­ery”. In his speech, the min­is­ter high­light­ed the harm­ful effects of the many cur­rent crises, which are inter­linked, and stressed the impor­tance that the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion attach­es to mul­ti-stake­hold­er part­ner­ships, includ­ing civ­il soci­ety actors in the pri­vate sec­tor and work­ing meth­ods such as South-South and tri­an­gu­lar cooperation.

Franz Fay­ot also high­light­ed the need for gen­der equal­i­ty in order to achieve the SDGs. Women are often the ones who suf­fer the most from the con­se­quences of crises, and at the same time are impor­tant agents of change, for exam­ple in mobil­is­ing com­mu­ni­ties or imple­ment­ing strate­gies to com­bat cli­mate change. That is why the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion is work­ing to strength­en the inclu­sion and empow­er­ment of women in a cross-cut­ting way in all its projects. Final­ly, the min­is­ter gave an overview of the var­i­ous ini­tia­tives that the Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion is under­tak­ing in order to improve its eval­u­a­tions and, ulti­mate­ly, the effec­tive­ness of its devel­op­ment cooperation.