Development with Impact: Innovation and Partnerships
Drawing on his experience at the foundation and in the private sector, and on examples of innovative development projects and partnerships, Bill outlines opportunities to create a better life for people in the world's poorest countries.
Earlier this year, I visited a flood-prone area of India where farmers were planting a new variety of rice that was bred to survive the standing water that often wiped out entire crops – and produce twice the harvest the old variety yielded in a good year. Not surprisingly, demand for the new seed is high. In the next six years, an estimated 20 million farmers in poor countries will plant this and other new varieties of rice seed.

This is one example in my report to G20 leaders of the enormous potential that innovation can play in global development and in improving living conditions for people in the world’s poorest countries. Another example I point to in the report is the impact that new drugs and new long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets are having in the battle against malaria. As a result of these efforts, deaths are down 20 percent in the last 10 years. Meanwhile, research into a malaria vaccine is showing promising results. This could eventually be another tool in the battle against malaria.

Especially now, when economic conditions are putting a lot of pressure on aid budgets, the G20 is in a unique position to catalyze new approaches to research and delivery of development aid to the world’s poor. The rapidly-growing member countries of the G20 – such as China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico – are particularly well-positioned to accelerate the kind of innovation we need. In addition to their ability to contribute economically, these nations – having successfully grown their economies and dramatically reduced poverty rates – possess a sophisticated understand of what poor countries need.

I’m excited about the opportunities for these rapidly growing countries to form new kinds of “triangular partnerships” that involve poorer countries and traditional donors from wealthier nations.

We’re already seeing some great examples of this. In response to a request from African leaders for a better weapon against meningitis epidemics, the Serum Institute of India developed a vaccine for meningitis A, the first vaccine created specifically for poor countries. The effort involved the private and public sectors in industrialized and rapidly growing countries, including raw materials provided by a Dutch biotech company and a technology transfer from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Thirty years ago, Japan helped Brazil adapt the soybean to Brazil’s tropical savanna and it is now one of Brazil’s most important crops. Now, Brazil is working with Japan to help poor farmers in Mozambique grow soybeans in an area with similar climate and soil conditions. And the Japanese are looking at ways to upgrade Mozambique’s port and railroad infrastructure to make it easier for farmers to export the beans.

China has launched a “Green Super Rice” partnership with several global research centers to help develop adapted varieties of rice with 15 poor countries in Africa and South Asia. China also plans to sequence 10,000 varieties of rice to discover traits such as heat tolerance and disease resistance that are needed to adapt to climate change.

Recently, our foundation joined with the Chinese government and private companies there to make low-cost vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics available for developing countries. We also are partnering with another G20 country, Brazil, to share its expertise in agriculture, tropical diseases, family health, and vaccines with African countries.

In the report, I talk about other approaches to development that can help poorer countries better tap their own domestic resources. For instance, improving the transparency of government deals with mining, oil, and timber companies is a way to increase revenue and minimize mismanagement and corruption. The G20 countries could assist in this effort by supporting legally-binding transparency requirements.

Helping governments in poorer countries do a better job of collecting taxes could also have a big benefit. One G20 country, South Africa, is leading the way here, working with several neighboring countries to strengthen their revenue systems. Similarly, the G20 should, I believe, encourage multilateral institutions to better prioritize their aid efforts.

Given that the private sector is the main driver of economic growth, it makes sense for the G20 to look at innovative ways to tap private investment and expertise to help countries development essential infrastructure such as roads, and irrigation and power systems. Tapping even a small portion of the sovereign wealth funds of rapidly growing G20 countries for infrastructure investment could raise tens of billions of dollars for badly needed development.

Encouraging investment by diaspora communities – by reducing transaction costs associated with remittances and selling bonds that could be used for infrastructure development – is another great idea I would love to see the G20 embrace.

Other innovation and partnership strategies are outlined in the report. But even if the G20 were to adopt many of these, it is still critical that wealthier nations uphold their development commitments as a step toward giving the poorest people the opportunity for a better life, improving the world economy, and helping strengthen global stability.

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Development-with-Impact-Innovation-and-Partnerships?

Great man who got tired of making money but has learnt to give it away. Resigned from being ceo of microsoft but signed on to being ceo of the crusade against malaria and now global poverty- extreme poverty. We need more of such men.

I think that this triangular partnership innovation can be used by the global South to help themselves not necessarily by looking towards the G20 or G8 or G anything Nations. They can partner among themselves to get out of the woods.

The truth is when u give,have more, only few understands this.

Sounds more like repairing with your right hand & destroying with your left hand. All these charity works are mere camouflage. Bill gates & warren buffets are both fu cking racists, they are supporters & sponsors of 'planned parenthood'- it is an eugenics project by the american public health service aimed at cutting down birth rate among african americans thereby leading to there depopulation. Bill gate will derive so much pleasure in seeing the entire black race wiped away from the face of the earth.

[size=15pt]Bill gates Formula:[/size]  [size=30pt]C02 =[/size] [size=30pt]P[/size][size=15pt]eople[/size] [size=30pt]  x  S[/size][size=15pt]ervices Per Person[/size]   [size=30pt]x E[/size][size=15pt]nergy Per Service[/size]   [size=30pt]x C[/size][size=15pt]02 per unit energy[/size]

nolongTing:

[size=15pt]Bill gates Formula:[/size] [size=30pt]C02 =[/size] [size=30pt]P[/size][size=15pt]eople[/size] [size=30pt] x S[/size][size=15pt]ervices Per Person[/size] [size=30pt]x E[/size][size=15pt]nergy Per Service[/size] [size=30pt]x C[/size][size=15pt]02 per unit energy[/size]

Explanation please

lakhadimar:

Sounds more like repairing with your right hand & destroying with your left hand. All these charity works are mere camouflage. Bill gates & warren buffets are both fu cking racists, they are supporters & sponsors of 'planned parenthood'- it is an eugenics project by the american public health service aimed at cutting down birth rate among african americans thereby leading to there depopulation. Bill gate will derive so much pleasure in seeing the entire black race wiped away from the face of the earth.

Proof please

lakhadimar:

Sounds more like repairing with your right hand & destroying with your left hand. All these charity works are mere camouflage. Bill gates & warren buffets are both fu cking racists, they are supporters & sponsors of 'planned parenthood'- it is an eugenics project by the american public health service aimed at cutting down birth rate among african americans thereby leading to there depopulation. Bill gate will derive so much pleasure in seeing the entire black race wiped away from the face of the earth.

This actually has the most resemblance of truth on this thread. Although it is very exaggerated.
Bill Gates is just following the path of his predecessors like Rockefeller and co. They did some good and they also did a lot of bad with their money.

yea. one of bill gates main priorities is population control. Unsurprisingly, this program is usually more aggressively implemented in poorer countries like in Africa and other parts of the third world.

There is already some controversy over HPV vaccine being a sort of sterilizer following deaths of young women in India and other reactions elsewhere. This is a Bill Gate pet project.

houvest:

Explanation please

Well its quite straight forward, Billy thinks that the more people we have on this planet the higher the C02 emissions, which in turn has an adverse effect on global warming. 

Bill carried out some research and found that there is a strong correlation between childbirth and poverty.  He believes that the poorest have more than two children to make sure they have enough children to survive adulthood and take care of them in old age. 

Therefore his solution is to make the mothers and children of the poorest people on earth healthier so they will not feel the need to have more than two children.   

[size=15pt]Bill gates Formula:[/size]  [size=30pt]C02 =[/size] [size=30pt]P[/size][size=15pt]eople[/size] [size=30pt]  x  S[/size][size=15pt]ervices Per Person[/size]   [size=30pt]x E[/size][size=15pt]nergy Per Service[/size]   [size=30pt]x C[/size][size=15pt]02 per unit energy[/size]

The P for People in the formula above is what Bill wants to reduce in order to reduce carbon emissions and make the world a better place – world population reduction.

Interestingly enough, Billy thinks that Northern Nigeria and Northern India have the “worst health record in the world”.  Therefore they are the beneficiaries of most of his so-called - solution 

Hmm! something stinks . . .

Eureka! AIDS, there was a strikingly similar programe that was developed in 1900's and talked about in a summit [b]Subcommittee of Appropriations [/b]held in July 1, 1969, which involved discussions about Synthetic Biological Agents.

“There are two things about the biological agent field I would like to mention. One is the possibility of technological surprise. Molecular biology is a field that is advancing very rapidly and many eminent biologists believe that within a period of 5 – 10 years it would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.”

After ten years of investigation, the virus was created sometime after 1974 and was experimented with by injecting humans as early as 1977; it is rumoured that entities like the World Health Organization and the United Nations had previously called for a bio weapon of the sort.

The World Health Organization (WHO), started to inject the AIDS virus in the form of a 'AIDS -laced smallpox vaccine jab' into African volunteers as of 1977.


So, thank-you but NO thank-you, Bill Gates can use the vacines of synthetic bio weapons on himself, family and close friends that's his and their palaver; the Nigerian government or any other country in the continent for that matter, should never allow any 'foreign' bilogical agent to by-pass ministry of health.


Keep your eyes open!

hmm, I wonder if African nations independently verify the contents and retain data on the effects of theses vaccines?

I like how it doesnt tell you that his "charity" invests in the hedge funds that do the land grabs around africa, that displace millions and cause poverty.

Just passing