How much scope is there to spend public money more efficiently?The public needs to see the detail of each party's answer to these questions, not simply high level commitments to reducing deficits or debt without plans for how those targets will be achieved.
"The biggest challenge is that everyone is making having high level commitments, but no action plan," says Hajji. "The COP21 in Morocco will be about action, and I think the only stake holders that can commit to action are the private companies.
To many females, their policies sound "more of a high level commitment than a reality on the ground," says PwC.
In Da Nang, with the high level commitment from Da Nang DOET and with support from UNICEF, the Resource Centre for Inclusive Education was officially established on 18 April 2011.
Demonstrating high level commitment and political will, the President of Nigeria on 1 March inaugurated a Presidential Task Force to deal with the polio emergency and pledged US$30 million each year for the next two years for polio eradication activities.
"Stronger policies and high level commitment alone are not enough to stop the misuse and overuse of antibiotics", said Vice-Minister of Health, Dr Nguyen Viet Tien, Chair of the National Steering Committee for Antibiotic Resistance in Viet Nam.
"The political will is changing; we're seeing a lot of high-level commitments.
The past 12 months have seen a wealth of high-level commitments made to address issues facing adolescent girls.
For Ramachandran, Haiti is a prime example of how donors need to do more to translate their high-level commitments to transparency into reality.
While high-level commitments and efforts to galvanise action are welcome, such summits risk becoming publicity stunts if they don't lead to action and prioritising the issue at the country level.
Baffoe acknowledged this as an important and significant step, but raised concerns that the high-level commitments at COP22 are not yet reflected in the way large-scale oil palm plantations are being established in countries such as Liberia and Cameroon.
