The right time to debate Portugal’s contributor to a just and sustainable world | Opinion
In times of crisis, countries tend to focus their attention on internal aspects and ignore the global dimension of the current challenges. Often, the potential that international cooperation, based on solidarity and respect for Human Rights, represents in the search for better solutions, is also ignored. However, from the fight against climate change to the fight against the pandemic, examples are multiplying that, yes, the imperative need for joint approaches, capable of sharing responsibilities and based on global solidarity. Building solid policies is absolutely vital for warranty duration and durability.
Inequalities, between and within countries, have been exacerbated by the pandemic and today an obstacle to global sustainable development. For example, the rate of the African population is already around 70% of the EU population (in Portugal, this figure is already registered at 10% registered on the continent. In the economic field, a comparison between the recovery plans of developed countries ( an average of funds around 15.8% of GDP) and of the stimuli mobilized in developing countries (3% of GDP) indicating unacceptable disparities. Oxfam’s finding on the rhythms of income recovery of people with different levels of income: while the greatest fortunes needed only nine months to return to pandemic-wealth levels, like the poorest ones, it will take a decade to achieve it. For all this, it is necessary to act.
With the publication of a manifesto However, in the debate on the Portuguese Platform of Legislation Legislations of 30 January 2022, the Portuguese Platform in Response to Challenges must be debated. In view of the need to ensure a better balance between the recovery process of advanced countries (LDCs), it is less important to trace a path that definitively places Portugal on the route of countries that fulfill international commitments in terms of Public Assistance to the public for Development ( ODA) – dedicating 0.7% of its gross national income (GNI) to this effect until 2030. Only by fulfilling its part will Portugal be able to contribute to solutions within a global effort to eradicate poverty and fight inequalities.
For this to be possible, the Platform has argued that the Assembly of the Republic should more consistently monitor and supervise the implementation of the Portuguese cooperation policy. Coincidentally, the implementation of legislative alternatives takes place in the same period in which the process of building a new Portuguese Cooperation Strategy is projected, so this is a decisive moment for, in addition to clarifying the options of each of the parties, guaranteeing greater of parties involvement of Parliament in building solutions. The discussion and voting of a guiding document for the sector in the house of democracy is, therefore, a fundamental step for this to happen. From the platform’s point of view, it is an essential condition for creating a favorable environment for monitoring cooperation policies.
In the certainty that it is important to deepen the debate on Portugal’s role in the world, in the guarantee of sustainable global development and in the affirmation of solidarity as the guide of its relationship with countries, the Portuguese Platform of NGOs Development has insisted on the importance of bringing the problems global, that to all/the differences, for the electoral campaign. In addition to defining a right, it is important that the country, like a rumor, asserts itself as a space for reflection on the contribution that Portugal can (and must) give to the construction of a more just, sustainable and sustainable world for humans.
The author writes according to the new spelling agreement