when we are talking about results, we are using metric numbers to understand results for development and don t get stuck in the ghetto of looking at a very small scale and you have to take it up to policy. there s a great organization in national security called w.i.s.e. it s a fantastic organization. if you know how to think strategicly in development terms and in military terms. there s another organization called white house. their goal is to put women in elective office and that s another thing to consider. upstairs? upstairs. we do have a question from a gentleman in the back row. can i get to him after you here he comes. i can t see who is asking the question. ask your question, sir. you mentioned critique of aid from the left and that you thought that critique was incorrect. would you expand on that, please. i said i think it has some elements of validity. there are actually two critiques from the left. a domestic critique and an international critique.
we might have time for two more questions depending on the question and the answers. thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge. all of you touched on the importance of measuring results and it was a lead onto her question. you mentioned the paris declaration as a possibility. i worked with an international and ngo and a lot of our work had to simulate it. i m interested to hear from all three of you on if you feel it s been a successful tool for measurement and if it has or has not been, what s your recommendation for tools of measurement of impact and finding results. the question is, is the mgd a good tool for measurement? the one thing i want to say is they are goals and underneath it is hundreds of different indicators that organizations use to measure if they are achieving it. i think you ve done a lot of thinking on this. the development goals were a set of ten broad goals and then a bunch of sub targets that were dwo adopted by the nations. i m going
terrible things. so we re sort of sometimes guilty of externalizing our own optimism. and in this work where we don t live in a dictatorship, we do have to persuade people, we re constantly living on the knife edge of what is and what ought to be. and the very great challenge that we have in this work anytime we are talking about it and promoting it is giving an expression that s realistic that won t lead to disappointment, but that s also hopeful enough to get your audience excited and wanting to come with you. and i think that s the core dilemma we all face in this business. it reads us down pretty unhelpful directions. i m sorry to report that we are out of time. i d like to apologize to the [ applause ] i d like tole po bomapologize t people in the balcony who had questions that didn t get answers, but i d also like to thank our panel. so thank you very much. applause. [ more from the university of colorado s world affairs conference. this panel looks at women i