The Truth about NATO Burden Sharing

We need to see more equal burden sharing.

Burden sharing also implies that non G 8 donors should contribute.

One key issue is how to handle burden sharing among different donors.

(c) Acceptable burden sharing among donors and likely consensus among major contributors.

The tools it had developed combined protection with durable solutions while sharing the burden of refugee protection.

Further recognizes that more balanced burden sharing is essential to the long term financial sustainability of UNFPA.

Refugee management was a shared responsibility and the experience in Zambia had demonstrated the effectiveness of burden sharing.

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

The current global refugee situation required an effective and equitable mechanism for ensuring international responsibility and burden sharing.

I hope the conference will help build momentum for greater international burden sharing for Iraq's political and economic reconstruction.

His delegation therefore welcomed the Convention Plus initiative, which aimed to resolve refugee issues through responsibility and burden sharing.

This pointed clearly to the scope for greater burden sharing across other groups in their funding of UNCTAD as well.

He asked the Special Rapporteur to explain what role countries of origin and host countries should play in burden sharing.

It welcomed the conclusion adopted by the Executive Committee of UNHCR on international cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing, and hoped that it would help to ease the heavy burden imposed on developing countries.

First, devaluation would distribute the costs of rebalancing more evenly, making it easier to clear the burden sharing hurdle to deeper reforms. Second, floating exchange rates imply that devaluation is an automatic adjustment mechanism, so it occurs without the appearance of an explicit burden sharing choice and the accompanying potential for political gridlock.

We reaffirm the principle of solidarity and burden sharing and agree to support nations in assisting refugee populations and their host communities.

This sort of arithmetic has the merit of giving some indications about burden sharing, but it has also been shown that burden sharing cannot be fully captured in graphs and spreadsheets. How does one decide what is a fair contribution from a country of 50 million people compared to a country with only four million?

India was committed to working with the international community to address new and emerging challenges in a spirit of compassion, solidarity and burden sharing.

It was therefore necessary to strengthen international solidarity and to apply the principles of burden and responsibility sharing in order to find durable solutions.

The European Commission s proposal is intended to underscore European solidarity and burden sharing both core EU principles. But the plan s limited scope undermines this impression.

In this way burden sharing as addressed in financial institutions would require major adjustments before application to United Nations agencies, funds or programmes.

The international financial institutions have traditionally dealt with burden sharing by linking voting rights and representation on their boards with each donor's share of capital.

However, when it came to sharing the burden of emissions reduction among EU member states, the European Commission proposed in January 2008 to change the base year from 1990 to 2005. This approach endorsed as a basis for negotiation in the recent EU Council amounted to allowing some member states not to fulfill their supposedly binding Kyoto burden sharing targets.

Germany and Sweden cannot be expected to be the only destinations for all refugee arrivals. Burden sharing is essential if the costs are to be tolerable.

A performance indicator to track burden sharing will be monitored during the course of this plan period and the information used for advocacy (see annex II).

Acknowledging that the global refugee situation represents an international challenge requiring international burden and responsibility sharing to be addressed effectively and, recognizing that allowing for local integration, where applicable, is an act of States which is a durable solution for refugees that contributes to that burden and responsibility sharing, without prejudice to the specific situation of certain developing countries facing mass influxes,

16. Acknowledges that the global refugee situation represents an international challenge requiring that international burden and responsibility sharing be addressed effectively, and recognizes that allowing for local integration, where applicable, is an act of States that is a durable solution for refugees, which contributes to the said burden and responsibility sharing, without prejudice to the specific situation of certain developing countries facing mass influxes

Replying to the question from the representative of Costa Rica, she said it was important for host countries to forge a burden sharing relationship with the countries of origin.

SADC remained committed to strengthening national and regional mechanisms to create sustainable local capacity for protecting and assisting refugees and give effect to the concept of burden sharing.

It also believed that more coordination among UNHCR and other relevant agencies and organizations would help States to take concrete measures and develop mechanisms that could include early warning systems and information sharing, leading to greater emergency preparedness and equitable burden sharing.

The Convention Plus initiative has continued to engage with States and other partners of UNHCR to build stronger commitments to resolve refugee situations through enhanced responsibility and burden sharing.

In that regard, he endorsed the principles of international solidarity and burden sharing, in view of the economic and social strains that large flows of refugees caused to host communities.

In my judgment, the best course of action is to persuade Germany to choose between either leading the creation of a political union with genuine burden sharing, or leaving the euro.

Moreover, the Convention Plus initiative has continued to engage with States and other partners of UNHCR to build stronger commitments to resolve refugee situations through enhanced responsibility and burden sharing.

All countries and policymakers face difficult choices concerning the timing of austerity, perceived sovereign credit risk, growth oriented reforms, and equitable sharing of the costs of restoring growth. So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

First, once a collective choice is made about the desired levels of social insurance, the implied liabilities should be fully funded over time. The alternative is a poor intergenerational burden sharing choice.

Complementary national policies and international agreements will require careful scientific and economic analysis and thoughtful choices. The need for burden sharing, particularly between advanced and developing countries, will not magically disappear.

It noted with appreciation that States and other partners of UNHCR were engaged in the process to achieve solutions to refugee problems through burden sharing and the development of multilateral special agreements.

One provided direction on international cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing in mass influx situations while the second provided recommendations regarding legal safety issues in the context of voluntary repatriation of refugees.

As long as there was insufficient sharing of tasks and responsibilities with men, the combination of remunerated work and caregiving would lead to the continued disproportionate burden for women in comparison to men.

We urged the High Commissioner to continue his efforts to broaden and diversify the donor base, and renewed our appeal to the international community to show sustained solidarity and generosity in sharing the burden.

The combination of uneven burden sharing among top donors and the growing disproportion between regular and other resources during 2002 2005 led to increasing UNICEF reliance on raising other resources for programmes of cooperation.

24. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner to widen its donor base, so as to achieve greater burden sharing by reinforcing cooperation with traditional governmental donors, non traditional donors and the private sector

And for that we need fiscal stimulus ideally, the debt friendly stimulus that raises taxes and expenditures equally. The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work sharing.