Working Paper No. 30 - The outcome and impact of the main international commissions on development issues

This paper analyses the context, mandate, work process, outcomes, and impacts of the major international independent commissions on development issues. Some of the challenges these commissions face include: listening and responding to world concerns on time, stimulating ownership, promoting communication between the different work sectors, reforming the global architecture to strengthen UN values, and developing a more concrete policy agenda for action at national and global levels. These efforts would contribute to the concept of development on social, cultural, human rights, ethical, and environmental levels.