TAZ: USA, Germany: more and more industrialized countries are reducing their funds to cooperate in the field of development. How does this affect your civil society in the global south?
Jennifer del Rosario Mononzo: In our work, we are committed to transformations of cooperation in the field of development. It is ironic that the crisis of current development financing undermines our possibilities to create the best and more fair financing system.
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In an interview: Jennifer del Rosario Malonzo
Heads iBon International. The non -governmental organization is located in the Philippines and strengthens the voices of civil society from the global south in international debate.
TAZ: What is the problem with cooperation in the field of development between the North and the South?
Malonzo: Help in public development has long been presented as a charity act. Since this is a voluntary gift, it also depends on the political mood of the relevant governments in the north. Even worse: development in development is used as sugar bread. In turn, the countries of the South are often subjected to political measures that serve as the economic and geopolitical interests of the North. That is why we call for a fundamental change in cooperation with development.
In Seville, the United Nations are discussing investments, taxes, debts and structures for the first time in ten years, there is another UN financing conference. The basin from June 30. up to 3.7. in place.
TAZ: What does this change look like?
Malonzo: First of all, we must understand that money flows as an expression of solidarity and as a compensation for historical guilt. Repair is not generosity, they are required. Development cooperation should be democratized. Currently, the OECD is deciding the governments of the North, how funds are produced. Instead, control over the development of development should be assigned to the UN, where all conditions are presented. Democratization also means that not only government, but also civil society organizations and parliaments are included in decision -making processes.
TAZ: You yourself were at conferences to finance development in Seville last week. This is agreed by the UN. You can say more like the voice of civil society from the global south?
Malonzo: As an organization of civil society, we are invited to participate, but decisions are ultimately made by governments. We can clarify our positions, but governments can decide at any time when they park the microphone. For example, during a run to the conference, we conducted a campaign for the countries of the North to make 0.7 percent of our gross domestic product to help in development – this was promised in the 1970s. Unfortunately, our requirement was not heard.
Pilgroup: On the contrary, the products are reduced. At the same time, foreign private investments are more concentrated on the focus.
Malonzo: Multilateral development banks, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, strive for a stronger integration of private funds in public sectors, such as health and education. This worsens and increases the public proposal of the population. This especially affects the poor.
TAZ: Do you have an example?
Malonzo: In the Philippines, we experienced this during local public transport. Foreign investors financed the expansion, but the population should now pay more and higher ticket prices. At the same time, the state subsidizes the company with taxpayers so that investors receive their loans back. Thus, the population pays twice.
