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| UNDP
and DESA invite comments on Commissioned "Guidance
Notes" for Policy-Makers and Policy-Shapers |
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The outcome
document of the 2005 United Nations World Summit called,
in its paragraph 22, on countries to prepare "National
Development Strategies" by 2006, taking into account
the international development goals agreed in the various
UN Summits and Conferences of the past two decades.
In order to assist countries in this task, UNDP and
DESA have jointly commissioned six "guidance notes"
for policy-makers and policy-shapers both in the government
and civil society, in "macroeconomic and growth
policy", "trade policy", "investment
and technology policy" (industrial policy), "financing
development", "public investment management"
(alternatives to privatization) and "social policy".
I am pleased to share with you the latest drafts of
these notes which represent work in progress, at the
following Internet web forum: http://esaconf.un.org/~ndsnet.
We would very much appreciate your views on the guidance
notes by 5 July, which you should post directly in the
respective e-folder ("conference") in the
above forum.
We encourage you to share this note with colleagues
who may be interested in commenting on them. We would
particularly appreciate additional case studies as well
as relevant reference material (including web addresses),
especially for key policy suggestions as well as policy
analysis contrary to the conventional wisdom.
We intend to customize and translate the guidance notes
into French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian, and would
greatly appreciate contacting groups willing and able
to undertake this task competently and speedily. Customization
here refers to our intention to amend these guidance
notes for different linguistic groups, e.g. to use more
relevant examples, for instance to better address public
investment management issues in transition economies
in contrast to other developing countries.
June 26, 2006. |
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