This year’s “Managing Global Governance” (MGG) Public Lecture Series concluded with an event featuring Gerardo Bracho, OECD, Paris.

As a Senior Advisor for Effective Development Co-operation at the OECD, Gerardo Bracho provides the central link between the OECD/UNDP-led Secretariat to the Global Partnership Steering Committee and the Mexican government, which will host the first Global Partnership Ministerial-level meeting in 2014. A career diplomat, he was the Deputy Director General of the Mexican development co-operation agency AMEXCID and also served as the Mexican Sherpa at the Busan summit in 2011.

How far has the Global Partnership progressed since 2011? Is it possible to involve developing as well as emerging countries more actively in the current discourse on aid effectiveness, which for a long time has been Western-driven, or is there a need for a completely new approach? And what is the role of non-state actors within the Global Partnership? 

Gerardo Bracho addressed these and other issues in his brief keynote and in a subsequent discussion involving Martina Metz from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as well as Reinhard Bodemeyer, who works in the Department “Policy and Strategy, Cooperate Development” at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Stephan Klingebiel, Head of Department “Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation”, will chair this interactive session – as always the audience is invited to contribute questions and comments. 

The event is part of the MGG Public Lecture series featuring eminent scholars as well as high-ranking officials from MGG partner institutions. MGG, which is now in its 11th round in 2013, engages highly qualified young professionals from eight emerging economies (Egypt, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa) in a global governance dialogue. The format starts off with a two-month academic module, the Global Governance School (GGS) at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Subsequently, participants move on to research-based practice projects at German or European host organisations. MGG is jointly implemented by DIE and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ).