The Verdict

The call for More and Better Aid

Drop the Debt

Trade Justice

Through building a movement for change

More Aid

• The G8 signalled an extra $48 billion in aid per year by 2010.

• The EU promised to double aid spending over 5 years, to 0.51 per cent by 2010.

• But much more is needed…

Better Aid• UK to stop attaching damaging

policy conditions to aid.• Donors have agreed to be

monitored to ensure aid is coordinated and goes where it is needed.

• But poor countries still don’t have the right to choose their own economic policies in practice, and many donors are still ‘tying aid’.

Drop the Debt• Principle of “100%

multilateral debt cancellation” accepted.

• The G8 promised 18 countries debt cancellation worth about $1 billion per year.

• Another 20 potentially in the pipeline.

• But promises must be fulfilled.

• Over 60 countries need 100% debt cancellation to meet poverty targets.

• Damaging economic policy conditions still being attached.

Drop the Debt

Trade Justice• Commission for Africa

Report: “we do not believe that poor countries should be forced to liberalise”.

• UK General Election: UK government “will not force trade liberalisation on developing countries either through trade negotiations or aid conditionality”.

Trade Justice

• But at the WTO, rich countries decided not to end the agricultural subsidies that cause dumping.

• In WTO negotiations on services and industrial goods, things actually got worse.

• UK government has not properly regulated multinational corporations for their impact overseas.

• Very little real progress was made on trade this year: we need action, not words.

Other Outcomes of 2005

• Commitment to universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment for all those who need it by 2010 by the G8.

• International poverty is an election issue.

Policy Progress• Small steps along a long road.• Our campaigning has made a difference.

• The challenge is to keep going and make sure promises are kept.

• We need to be that “great generation”.

The Year of the White Band

• Building a movement.

• Challenging the acceptance of poverty.

• The next step for some, a new awakening for many.

Moments Along the Way…

• The Indian Ocean tsunami reminds us that it is the poor who suffer most.

Challenge from Mandela

“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.”

White Bands

Postcards to the PM

Global Week of Action on Trade

• 25,000 people gathered in London for all-night vigil.

• Activity all over the world during week of action.

Edinburgh

• Over 225,000 people.

• 8 world leaders.• One powerful

message: “We are asking you to act, we are demanding justice”.

Edinburgh

Live 8

A Global Movement

• MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY was the UK arm of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty

• 31 million people linked through 84 national coalitions

Somalia Afghanistan

Paris Philippines

Brazil

Disappointment• “The people have

roared, but the G8 has whispered”.

• G8 pledges important, but inadequate.

• UN World Summit in September fails to deliver on poverty.

Trade Justice Mass Lobby

• Over 8,000 campaigners met 375 MPs at the biggest lobby ever

White Band Day 3

• Activity all around the country

• Hand in of over 750,000 Votes for Trade Justice

• Delivery of giant white letters from Edinburgh.

WTO Meeting

A Momentous Year

• Over 500,000 people contacted the Prime Minister. • Over 800,000 people campaigned online through the

coalition website.• 8 million white bands were worn. • Half of those who marched in Edinburgh were

protesting for the first time.

Keep Making Poverty History

• Cancelling debt is part of making poverty history. • Delivering trade justice is part of making poverty

history. • Stopping climate chaos is part of making poverty

history. • Sending every child to school is part of making

poverty history.

Take Action

• WTO 2006 • IMF and World Bank Meetings • The G8 (Russia in 2006, Germany in 2007)• World Health Day, World Debt Day, World

Environment Day, World AIDS Day … • World White Band Day (17 October)• The Millennium Development Goals: 2015