ANNEX

New analytical tools for understanding public goods

• Expanding the definition of public goods and global public goods.

• Assessing goods using the triangle of publicness.

• Recognizing the link between efficiency and equity in the provision of global public goods.

• Complementing the concept of optimal supply with that of adequate provision.

New Tools to Foster Publicness in Decisionmaking

• Promoting the principle of stakeholder-decision maker equivalence.

• Developing criteria for fair negotiations.

• Strengthening the negotiating capacity of developing countries.

• Developing rules for interactions between state and nonstate actors.

• Creating advisory scientific panels for all major global issues, following the example of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• Creating negotiating arenas for new priority issues (such as the right of access to water for all people) together with appropriate grievance panels (such as a world water court).

• Creating demand-driven review and response facilities to promote flexible implementation of policy regimes, such as a trade and development review council within the World Trade Organization.

• Creating a G-29 based on the membership of the General Committee of the UN General Assembly

Possible Tools and Mechanisms for Financing Global Public Goods

• Creating an international component of the allocation branch of public finance.

• Restoring official development assistance spent on global public goods to its purpose of providing aid.

• Including the costs of international cooperation for global public goods in the budgets of line agencies or ministries.

• Creating national matching grant funds for international cooperation.

• Establishing international accounts or trust funds for global issues.

• Identifying priority investment opportunities.

• Establishing a broadly representative technical body to facilitate cooperation on global public goods.

New Tools for Managing the Production of Public Goods

• Appointing national issue ambassadors for key global public goods.

• Designating a national lead agency, such as a technical ministry, for each key global public good.

• Linking foreign and domestic affairs through matrix management and integrated budgets.

• Renaming foreign affairs ministries as ministries for foreign affairs and international cooperation.

• Establishing implementation councils for multilateral agreements.

• Creating second-generation global public policy partnerships.

Inviting high-level, issue-focused CEOs to lead and strategically manage public policy partnerships.