The mandate of the Agency, the lead organization responsible for Canadian international development co-operation, is sustainable development. This document presents the Agency's sustainable development strategy, which will be integrated into its business cycle and will become the strategic & unifying business plan for the Agency. The document begins with an overview of the Agency's mandate & policy framework and the diverse, complex, & connected challenges involved in international development co-operation. Objectives, strategies, key actions, and desired results are then set out under the three long-term goals of the sustainable development strategy: support sustainable development in developing countries, support democratic development & economic liberalization, and apply a management-system approach based on continual improvement. Appendices include a table showing desired key results & performance indicators, a summary of a stakeholder forum held to solicit views on the strategy, and a profile of the Agency.

This book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the Economic and Social Council meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which ECOSOC organized its first biennial Development Cooperation Forum. The discussions also revolved around the theme of the second Annual Ministerial Review, "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development."--P. 4 of cover.