Select Committee on International Development First Report

Annex 1: Commission for Africa - relevant reports and evidence sessions of the International Development Committee[60]

MAIN THEMES IN THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION FOR AFRICA	RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE REPORTS
OPPORTUNITY AND GROWTH	Corruption Report[61] (corruption as disincentive to investment, capital flight) European Aid report[62] (need for policy coherence, reform of EU agricultural policies) Climate Change Report[63] (vulnerability of growth to climate change, natural resource management) Financing for Development Report[64] (need for investment, capital flight) Southern Africa Report[65] (kick-starting the rural economy, role of agriculture, food security) Commission on Intellectual Property Rights oral and written evidence[66] (intellectual property rights and development) Pre- Cancún Trade Report[67] (trade, investment and growth, and protectionism) DFID Departmental Report 2003[68] (DFID's approach to agriculture) Post- Cancún Trade Report[69] (trade, investment and growth, and protectionism) Kenya Report[70] (necessity of growth for poverty reduction) Migration Report[71] (remittances as investment, human capital flight) DFID's Agriculture Strategy Report[72] (role of agriculture, food security)
AID AND DEBT RELIEF	World Bank and IMF oral and written evidence (debt relief, aid volumes and effectiveness)[73] European Aid Report (aid volumes, effectiveness and allocations) Financing for Development Report (aid volumes and effectiveness, debt relief) Southern Africa report (HIPC framework and the need to take account of development needs)
GOVERNANCE	Corruption Report (corruption, transparency, money-laundering legislation, corporate governance) Financing for Development report (good governance and the Monterrey Consensus) DFID Departmental Report Reports 2002[74] and 2003 and 2004[75] (governance, accountability, budget support) NEPAD oral evidence (governance, NEPAD)[76] Southern Africa Report (governance, corruption and food insecurity) Kenya Report (corruption)
PEACE AND SECURITY	Migration Report (conflict and migration) Strategic Export Controls Reports 2002, 2003, 2004 (Arms exports, small arms, licensing, sustainable development criterion)[77] NB: Whilst not focussed on Africa, the Committee's Reports on Afghanistan and Iraq are relevant here
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE AND INCLUSION	Financing for Development Report (developing countries and global governance) Southern Africa Report (human capital) Pre and post- Cancún Trade Reports (developing countries at the WTO, intellectual property rights) Kenya Report (progress on education) Migration Report (diaspora, remittances, recruitment)
HIV/AIDS (The Commission is treating HIV/AIDS as a cross-cutting theme)	Southern Africa Report (HIV/AIDS, agriculture, food security) AIDS oral and written evidence[78] Kenya report (challenge of HIV/AIDS)

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60   Focusing on reports published in the current ^{Parliament,andalsotheCorruptionreport,publishedinSession2000-01} Back

61   Fourth Report, ^{Session2000-01,Corruption,HC39-I,} Back

62   Second^{Report,Session2001-02,TheEffectivenessofthe}R^{eformsofEuropeanDevelopmentAssistance, HC417}-I Back

63   Third^{Report,Session2001-02,GlobalClimateChangeandSustainableDevelopment,HC519-I} Back

64   Fifth^{Report,Session2001-02,FinancingforDevelopment:FindingtheMoneytoEliminateWorldPoverty,HC785-I} Back

65   Third Report, ^{Session2002-03,ThehumanitariancrisisinsouthernAfrica,HC116-I} Back

66   Oral and written evidence, Session 2002-03, The UK Government Response to the Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, HC 1013 Back

67   Seventh Report, Session 2002-03, Trade and Development at the WTO: Issues for Cancú^n,HC400-I  Back

68   ^{EighthReport,Session200}2^{-03,DFIDDepartmentalReport2003,HC825} Back

69   ^{FirstReport,Session2003-04,TradeandDevelopmentattheWTO:Learningthelessonsof}Cancú^{ntoreviveagenuinedevelopmentround,HC92-I} Back

70   ^{FourthReport,Session2003-04,Kenya:DFID'sCountryAssistancePlan2004-07andprogresstowardstheMillenniumDevelopmentGoals,HC494} Back

71   ^{SixthReport,Session2003-04,MigrationandDevelopment:Howtomakemigration workforpovertyreduction,HC79-I} Back

72   ^{SeventhReport,Session2003-04,DFID'sAgriculturePolicy,HC602} Back

73   Oral and written evidence, The Autumn Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank: Session 2001-02, HC 256 (published in Session 2002-03); Session 2002-03, HC 1266; Session 2003-04, HC 1251-i Back

74   Sixth Report, Session 2001-02, DFID Departmental Report 2002, HC 964 Back

75   Eighth Report, Session 2003-04, DFID Departmental Report 2004, HC 749 Back

76   Oral and written evidence, Session 2001-02, Africa, NEPAD and the G8 Africa Action Plan, HC 1107 Back

77   Fourth Report, Session 2001-02, Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2000, Licensing Policy and Prior Parliamentary Scrutiny, HC 718; Fifth Report, Session 2002-03, The Government's proposals for secondary legislation under the Export Control Act, HC 620; Sixth Report, Session 2002-03, Strategic Export Controls Annual Report for 2001, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny, HC 474; Fifth Report, Session 2003-04, Strategic Export Controls Annual Report for 2002, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny, HC 390 Back

78   Oral and written evidence, Session 2003-04, Orphans and children made vulnerable by AIDS, HC 573 Back

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Prepared 16 December 2004