Right to development

So that means there is a huge gap of implementation and that's exactly where GDI can make contributions.

In 1986, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right to Development, establishing that every person and people are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy development.

In other words, I think the UN is basically recognizing the right to development as a sort of inalienable human right.

So from the perspective of supporting the UN ideals, what do you make of the significance of the GDI?

Well, I think the GDI echoes several parts of the UN philosophy in terms of inalienable human rights connected with development.

Because GDI emphasizes people-centered development, poverty reduction, food security, and the idea that countries should have more opportunity to pursue development according to their own conditions and their own needs.

That's very important because the right to development can remain very abstract unless we translate that into concrete projects, resources, and capabilities.

For example, a child needs access to education or a farmer needs access to infrastructure and technology and so on and so forth in that sense projects under the gdi can contribute to the material conditions through which the right to development is actually exercised um but at the same time indeed they have to you know mention that the united nations concept of the right to development is a broader uh concept than just uh you know the single international initiative, because it also includes participation, equality, and so on and so forth.