Objective:

(i) Design, develop and establish a sustainable and coherent results based monitoring and evaluation framework focused on WIPO’s development related activities, as well as the Development Agenda (DA) Recommendations.

(ii) Seek to strengthen the capacity for objective development impact assessments of the Organization’s activities.

(iii) Conduct a review of WIPO’s existing technical assistance activities in the area of cooperation for development to help establish some baselines for further work.

Status: implementation began in January 2010

Current Status of Implementation

19 recommendations under implementation since November 2007

23 projects at different stages of implementation

IP and the Public Domain (Recs. 16 and 20)

IP and Competition Policy (Recs. 7, 23 and 32)

IP, ICTs, the Digital Divide and Access to Knowledge (Recs. 19, 24 and 27)

Developing Tools for Access to Patent Information (Recs. 19, 30 and 31)

Enhancement of WIPO’s RBM Framework (Recs. 33, 38 and 41)

Some important considerations for implementation

It is a collective effort (Secretariat + Member States + other stakeholders) Must reflect the ground reality and respond to the real needs and

interests of Member States Should address the concerns behind the recommendations Ensure mainstreaming of the DA principles into all of WIPO’s work Should be member-driven and inclusive Equitable geographical distribution of projects

Projects should be sustainable. Important that local partners are fully committed to the projects.

“The Development Agenda [DA] decisively rejects th[e] IP-centric view. It posits that strong intellectual property protection does not consistently promote creative activity, facilitate technology transfer, or accelerate development. The DA accordingly places the benefits of a rich and accessible public domain, national flexibilities in implementing IP treaty norms, access to knowledge, UN development goals, curbing of IP-related anti- competitive practices, and the need to balance the costs and benefits of intellectual property protection firmly within WIPO’s central mission. .. [F]or the first time in WIPO’s history it places the need for balance, flexibility, and a robust public domain on par with promoting IP protection in all WIPO matters affecting developing countries.”