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The G8 Summit 2007, 6 - 8 June 2007, Germany

The following documents are now available from the: G8 Summit 2007

Chair's Summary
Joint declaration by the G8 - Presidency and Brazil, China, india, Mexico and South Africa
Declaration on trade
Declaration Growth and Responsibility in Africa
Summary of G8 Africa Personal Representatives' Joint Progress Report on G8 Africa Partnership
Growth and responsibility in the world economy

Guardian Unlimited news stories on the G8 Summit 2007:
Aid agencies dismiss G8 aid pledge
Aid agencies dismiss west's UK30bn as 'smokescreen'
What changed?

IPSN news stories on G8 2007

In Declaration Growth and Responsibility in Africa Summit Declaration (8 June 2007), the G8 Summit 2007 stressed "our firm resolve to implement the commitments on development made, in particular, in Gleneagles. These include the historic multilateral debt relief of up to US$60 billion, the implementation of which is now well underway. They also include increasing, compared to 2004, with other donors, ODA to Africa by US$ 25 billion a year by 2010. The OECD/DAC estimates the global increase by ODA by 2010 at around US$ 50 billion a year."

The G8 Summit 2007 also "agreed on a further set of measures to promote sustainable development in Africa. We will focus on promoting growth and investments in order to combat poverty and hunger, to foster peace and security, good governance and the strengthening of health systems, and to assist the fight against infectious diseases. We also recognise that the impacts of climate change in combination with other stresses present increased risks to sustainable development in Africa."

AFRICA

Bi-regional conference on Social Protection and Poverty Reduction - 7 - 9 June 2007, Cape Town, South Africa. The conference aims to establish an evidence-based South-South dialogur between policy/decision makers and researchers to inform policies on broad-based social protection and accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Millennoium Development Goals. The conference is an initiative of the Government of the Republic of South Africa, jointly supported and organised by UNDP Country Office in South Africa, the Regional Bureau for Africa, and the International Poverty Centre, as well as by DFID and RBLAC. More conference information

Growth and responsibility in Africa is an issue for the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, 6 - 8 June 2007, as presented by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - good governance, strengthening the partnership for reform between G8 states and pro-reform African governments and fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, establishing effective health systems and achieving peace and security. G8 Summit 2007

7th Africa Regional Assembly, Arusha, Tanzania, October 2006 (pdf)

36th Annual General Meeting of the Uganda Co-operative Alliance, October 2006 (pdf)

VP assures UCA, calls for crop diversification, September 2006 (pdf)

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