01373pab a2200157 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ponti, Marina Social watch: civil society assessing national commitments 2000 p.62-64 Jun Marina Ponti argues that the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD), held in March 1995, and the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 1995, committed the governments of the world to an ambitious programme to combat poverty and gender discrimination, promote employment and the integration of the excluded and marginalized groups. In technical jargon these commitments were `not legally binding', unlike the promises made by the governments before the World Trade Organization, or the conditions imposed on the debtor countries by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. She argues that the indispensable political will to carry out these commitments in each country can only be assured by a citizenship capable of holding governments to their promises. Following the deliberations of the Social Summit and Women's Conference, a group of non-profit organizations initiated the `Social Watch' programme, an annual report to monitor what has actually been carried out. - Reproduced Civil society Development 45606 45606 45606 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 43, Issue no: 2 AR46029 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR