On November 22nd Timor-Leste’s Finance Minister Emilia Pires delivered the first Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture Series. Minister Pires spoke of her five years of experience as Finance Minister in Timor-Leste where ‘the key to our progress was acting, and acting fast’ and how, through the founding of the g7+ in 2010 (which now has 18 members) fragile states could come together to share their successes and failures and form a voice to ‘end the monologue spoken at us and promote a dialogue spoken with us.’ This dialogue takes the form of the ‘New Deal’, which ‘is our call to the rest of the world for a new type of engagement… a change in doing business, a change in procedures and a change in mindset’ Minister Pires ended her presentation saying ‘nothing about us, without us.’
Minister Pires writes:
My goal as a member of [the g7+] is to get as much input from a wide range of Peoples, Organizations and Communities as possible within the allowable timeframe. Through consultations, I ask that no more than two pages be submitted which outlines your vision for the future which is both realistic and achievable given the significant and deep global challenges we face today. I have attached a simple framework which you could use to hold a consultation or as a guideline for your submission.
If you have already held consultations, I would kindly ask that you summarize your recommendations into no more than two pages outline. The end result will be a book – Visions and Voices to Shape the Future submitted to the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to feed into our report to the Secretary General.
Do you or your organisation have ideas to contribute to the development of a New Deal for developing nations? You can download the submission form here.
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