“There simply isn’t going to be enough ODA in the world to solve global poverty. What’s going to solve global poverty is providing access to skills and abilities that will help people participate in the positive sides of the free market and globalisation.” There simply isn’t going to be enough ODA [Official Development Assistance] in the world to solve global poverty. What’s going to solve global poverty is providing access to skills and abilities that will help people participate in the positive sides of the free market and globalisation. How can philanthropy accommodate and support the emerging economic realities of development? Development practitioners, philanthropy and local governments are learning to talk about exit from assistance. If you’re a G-20 member, and you have a space exploration program, an emerging development assistance program, a sovereign wealth fund, and all the conspicuous consumption signs of a middle-income or upper-middle-income country, why are we providing ODA? We’ve got poverty in Appalachia in the United States, and nobody is giving us foreign assistance. Poverty is not a completely objective cut-off point; it’s a political budget austerity question. So as donor countries cut assistance budgets and exit middleincome countries, if they were smart they would do so in ways that build on the legacy of all their investments over the years. And one way to do this is to support the architecture of philanthropy and to professionalise the nonprofit sector and local NGO capability – in other words, to invest in capacity building. • JULY 2012 CONNECT #1 23 Pagina 22
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