High Level Partnership Forum endorses a Communiqué The first Ministerial High Level Partnership Forum on Somalia to review the New Deal Somali Compact on Somalia agreed at the Brussels Conference in September 2013, met in Copenhagen this week (November 19-20). The meeting was co-chaired by the UN and the Government of Somalia and hosted by the Government of Denmark. Fifty-six delegations met to review progress made 2013, endorsed the progress made, acknowledges the challenges encountered in 2014, and identified priorities for 2015. In a communiqué, the Forum endorsed the New Deal Somali Compact which links the Federal Government’s commitment to working towards stability and the unity of Somalia with the international community’s commitment to provide support. The Forum welcomed the progress report and said the international community would continue to use the principles of New Deal Engagement in Fragile States based on mutual accountability between Somali government institutions and international partners, as the basis for ensuring a nationally-led and nationally-owned approach to development. It encouraged the Federal Government to continue its efforts to operationalize the Somali Compact with effective involvement of sub-regional and regional administrations. It emphasized that the Somali people needed to see the tangible results and deliverables at the local level and it committed Forum participants to the Somali Compact, to improving the effectiveness of the Peace and State-building Goals and their working groups and to dedicate allocation of resources to help further strengthening the link between central and local administrations, in order to enhance further development. The Forum also recognized that the establishment of the New Deal financing architecture had made progress, with the establishment of the UN and World Bank-administered funding windows and that aid flows have increased. It said it looked forward to the quick establishment of the remaining funding windows, administered by the AfDB and IMF. ethemb.se/high-level-partnership-forum-endorses-a-communique/
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