Commitment to Development Award
Each year the Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine present the Commitment to Development Award to honor an individual or organization from the rich world that has made a significant contribution to changing attitudes and policies towards the developing world. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Moisés Naím co-chair a selection panel that includes distinguished leaders of the development community.
2007 Award Recipient: Global Witness
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Global Witness receives the 2007 Commitment to Development Award for exposing how corruption and environmental betrayal go hand-in-hand. Global Witness, a small U.K.-based NGO, helped to bring the problem of conflict diamonds to the world’s attention and has crusaded to stop the plunder of rain forests in Cambodia and Burma. |
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2006: U.S. Congressman Jim Kolbe U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) received the 2006 Commitment to Development Award for promoting innovation within the U.S. foreign aid program. As chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Kolbe helped to make the case for the Bush Administration's aid program, the Millennium Challenge Account. Kolbe was also frank about the broader problems of the United State's highly fragmented and poorly administered aid programs. |
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2005: Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Treasury of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown received the 2005 Commitment to Development Award for his efforts to improve the lives of people in developing countries. Brown played a key role in the notable effort by the U.K. to apply solid economic analysis to the formation of specific proposals to improve rich-country policies towards the developing world. |
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2004: Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair Campaign The Make Trade Fair campaign has been a powerful tool in shaping global trade debates – at the individual, national and international level. The campaign’s efforts to change world trade rules so that trade can make a real difference in the fight against poverty have been a positive force in demonstrating the effect of rich-country policies on developing nations. |
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The Utstein group received the 2003 Commitment to Development Award due to its dedication, vision , and leadership in reducing global poverty and inequality in developing countries, challenging the norms of the development establishment, and highlighting the importance of policy coherence. The award was given to the four original members of the group: the former Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation, Ms. Eveline Herfkens; the British Minister for International Development, Ms. Clare Short; the German Minister of Economic Co-operation and Development, Ms. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul; and Ms. Hilde F. Johnson. |