This Policy Brief is part of a project entitled "French public aid for development and implementation of the post-2015 development agenda: establishing the priorities for research and action", coordinated by IDDRI in partnership with CIRAD and FERDI, with support from the Gates Foundation. Over a series of four workshops, the project gathers the main aid actors.
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"The post-2015 development agenda offers the opportunity to gather and deal with the new challenges of poverty, rising inequality and environmental sustainability within
the same framework. In this regard, France can make a specific and significant contribution to the debate, given that from an early stage it has placed an emphasis on the problems of inequality and consistently supported the integration of development and environment agendas. [...]
The first matter of urgency for ODA-providing countries is to ensure consistency between the means and the ends, and in the example of France, to restore the means of its policy or to further streamline it. In this case, according to the latter option: to refine the concept and implementation of differentiated partnerships, to limit and simplify the priorities on the basis of a clear added value in the overall portfolio of financing for development. At the other extreme, France may consider whether to expand its budgetary margins for manoeuvre within the French Treasury’s ‘programme
110’ to halt its slide down the ranks of contributors to international financial institutions and, as a corollary, its loss of influence in determining the priorities of these institutions."
