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financing initiatives to fight diseases of the poor depend for the most part on sources outside
public institutions and public accountability systems.
80. The task force welcomes as consistent with the right to development the support provided
by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for strengthening health systems in
developing countries. The task force finds Global Fund programmes to be generally consistent
with right to development principles, although it does not take an explicit rights-based approach.
The task force also notes the challenges of monitoring mechanisms for mutual accountability.
7.
Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization
81. Established in 2007, the WIPO Development Agenda is an important initiative designed
address the development dimensions of intellectual property and access to global technology for
development, to which target 8F of Millennium Development Goal 8 refers. From the
perspective of the right to development, the task force considers that the exploration of transfer
of technology should not be limited to information and communication technology but should
cover a broad range of transfer of technology issues, including intellectual property.
82. The task force considers that the value of the WIPO Development Agenda for the
realization of the right to development lies primarily in the potential enhancement of transfer of
technology to developing countries and related increase of access to knowledge and technology,
in conformity with the human right of all “to participate in the cultural life of the community, to
enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”1
8.
Clean development mechanism
83. Consistent with its broad approach to target 8F of Millennium Development Goal 8, the
task force regards the clean development mechanism as an arrangement of value to the climate
change dimension of the right to development insofar as the transfer of green technology can
enhance the prospects for sustainable development in developing countries. In this regard, the
task force attaches importance to article 4.1 of the Framework Convention on Climate Change,
which requires all parties to promote and cooperate in the development, application and
diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes that control, reduce or
prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
84. The task force regards the clean development mechanism as a significant example of
stimulating sustainable development through emission reduction and of allowing industrialized
countries some flexibility in meeting their reduction limitation targets. The registration of 1,391
projects in just three years is one impressive outcome of the mechanism. However, the task force
is concerned that Africa accounts for only 2.27 per cent of registered projects.
85. The mechanism contains elements of equity, participation, empowerment and
sustainability, which all underscore its relevance in the promotion of the right to development
and the importance of close monitoring of these elements to ensure that it makes a positive
contribution to this right.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 27.
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