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46. In further refining the list of criteria and preparing the corresponding operational
sub-criteria, the Working Group recommends that the task force, being mindful of the
need to ensure efficient use of budgeted resources, undertake the following activities:
(a) It should draw on specialized expertise, including from academic and research
institutions and relevant United Nations agencies and other relevant global organizations
and the experience of countries in relation to the promotion of the realization of the right to
development. It should also give due attention to the experience gained from the
application of the provisional criteria to development partnerships and to the views
expressed by Member States;
(b) Regarding target 8.E on access to essential medicines and 8.F on technology
transfer of the Millennium Development Goals, the task force should draw on its dialogue
with the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual
Property, the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Special
Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases;
(c) In order to address the concerns of targets 8.B and 8.D on debt relief, the task
force should devote time during its next session to an examination, from the perspective of
the right to development, of the experience of the institutions responsible for the Heavily
Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, and other
institutions and procedures that address the issue of debt relief;
(d) Taking into account the importance of the fight against poverty, hunger and
unemployment and the continued need for financial assistance to developing countries, the
task force should draw on the expertise and lessons learned from relevant international
institutions, including the Bretton Woods institutions, from the manner in which ongoing
development initiatives are working in that regard;
(e)
In relation to target 8.F on technology transfer, the task force should:
(i)
Attend the Conference on Intellectual Property and Public Policy
organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva in
July 2009, and hold consultations to gather information on the
Development Agenda of WIPO in relation to the realization of the right to
development;
(ii)
Continue to draw on the necessary expertise from examining the Clean
Development Mechanism, including in connection with mitigation of and
adaptation to climate change, from the perspective of the right to
development and, subject to an invitation, attend the Climate Change
Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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