World Summit 2005
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In Sept 2005, the UN held a World Summit in New York. The following contains an overall summary of the main outcomes, and an analysis on implications for RBEC region from a Water Governance perspective.
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Short Summary of main outcomes of the 2005 World Summit
Development
• Strong, unambiguous commitment of all the world's governments, in donor and developing nations alike, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
• Additional $50 billion a year by 2010 for fighting poverty.
• Commitment by all developing countries to adopt national plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2006.
• Agreement to provide immediate support for quick impact initiatives to support anti-malaria efforts, education, and healthcare.
• Commitment to innovative sources of financing for development, including efforts by groups of countries to implement an International Finance Facility and other initiatives to finance development projects, in particular in the health sector.
• Commitment to trade liberalization and expeditious work towards implementing the development dimensions of the Doha work programme.
Terrorism
• First clear, unqualified UN condemnation of terrorism “in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes.”
• Strong political push for comprehensive convention against terrorism within a year. Support for early entry into force of Nuclear Terrorism Convention. All states encouraged to join and implement it as well as 12 other antiterrorism conventions.
• Agreement to fashion a strategy to fight terrorism in way that makes international community stronger and terrorists weaker.
Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking
• Decision to create a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries transition from war to peace, backed by a support office and a standing fund.
• New standing police capacity for UN peacekeeping operations.
• Agreement to strengthen the Secretary-General’s capacity for mediation and good offices.
Responsibility to Protect
• Clear, unambiguous acceptance by all UN members of collective international responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and willingness to take timely and decisive collective action for this purpose, through the Security Council, when peaceful means prove inadequate and national authorities are manifestly failing to do it.
Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law
• Decisive steps to strengthen UN human rights machinery, backing action plan and doubling budget of the High Commissioner.
• Agreement to establish a UN Human Rights Council during the coming year.
• Reaffirmation of democracy as universal value, and welcome for new Democracy Fund which has already received pledges of $32 million from 13 countries.
• Convention Against Corruption received ratifications to enter into force
Management Reform
• Broad strengthening of UN’s oversight capacity, including the Office of Internal Oversight Services, expanding oversight services to additional agencies, calling for developing an independent oversight advisory committee, and further developing a new ethics office.
• Update the UN by reviewing all mandates older than five years, so that obsolete ones can be dropped to make room for new priorities.
• Overhauling rules on budget and human resources; and a one-time staff buy-out to ensure that the UN has the appropriate staff for today’s challenges.
Environment
• Recognition of the serious challenge posed by climate change and commitment to action through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the provision of assistance to those most vulnerable, like small island developing states.
• Agreement to create a worldwide early warning system for all natural hazards.
International Health
• A scaling up of responses to HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria, through prevention, care, treatment and support, and mobilization of additional resources from national, bilateral, multilateral and private sources.
• Commitment to fight infectious disease, including commitment to ensure full implementation of new International Health Regulations, and support for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organization.
Humanitarian Assistance
• Improved Central Emergency Revolving Fund to ensure that relief arrives reliably and immediately when disasters happen.
• Recognition of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement as an important international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons.
Updating the UN Charter
• A decision to revise and update the Charter by:
- Winding up the Trusteeship Council, marking completion of UN’s historic decolonisation role;
- Deleting anachronistic references to “enemy states” in the Charter.
Implications from a Water Governance perspective for teh RBEC region
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