nextThe Donors-Plus Group wrote to DGO, requesting a postponement
of the China Country Programme submissions by UN agencies to their Executive
Boards, from June next year to September. Because China is in the process of
developing its next five-year plan, which will be ready only in late 2005.
Hmmh. Will China’s next five-year plan be drastically different from the last?
And even if it changes in a major way, the key development challenges as
identified in the CCA are not likely to go away because of a new plan. But
should, totally hypothetically, China decide not to tackle AIDS, or not to
increase the protection of migrant children, does the donor group want us to
oblige?
But most puzzling is that China, who - as the Millennium Development Project is
finding out – has almost graduated from ODA and is fit enough to speak up
permanently in the Security Council, would need the donor group to speak on its
behalf.
Our Country Programmes are negotiated and agreed with our national partners. The
same partners who write their own national plans. If Country Programme
submissions need to be delayed, or – for that matter - any more procedures be
reformed, let us hear it from China. Or any other programme country.
(1 October 2004)
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