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Accepted Paper:
What does it mean to declare? Exploring the power and meanings of political declarations through the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Gemma Aellah
(BSMS)
Paper short abstract:
On World Neglected Tropical Disease Day 2022, a network of 'stakeholders' will launch the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. This paper explores how such global documents emerge, what work they do, what power they are imagined to have and what practices they produce.
Paper long abstract:
On the 30th January 2022, World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, a network of 'stakeholders' will formally launch the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). This 2000-word document will set out the planned commitments of different categories of stakeholders to reducing the number of people requiring interventions for NTDs by 90%. It is described by its authors as a ‘high level political framework’ with ‘the power to mobilise resources, with peers standing shoulder to shoulder for the collective good’. Such declarations are ways of officially making known commitments, yet carry with them no ways of making them legally binding. This paper asks how those involved in the creation of such documents imagine their policy rhetoric will turn into action and what inspires belief in their efficacy. It explores how such documents emerge, what work they do, what power they are imagined to have and what practices they produce.