This program aims to strengthen international development cooperation efforts to reduce poverty and inequality. It includes a range of projects that are designed to inform policy and practice for Southern and Northern stakeholders and for official aid agencies. The program emphasizes Southern perspectives on aid and development cooperation.
Key program themes
Aid effectiveness paradigm The Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action currently represent the main paradigm for official policy on aid effectiveness issues. Yet many Southern stakeholders challenge this paradigm, in particular its conception of developing country ownership.
Governance of the aid architecture Southern stakeholders also argue they must be better represented within the aid architecture. The growth of South-South cooperation has led to increased interest in new, more democratic aid governance options.
Development effectiveness Development organizations and Southern actors also emphasize the need to reformulate the aid effectiveness policy agenda, and to move from aid to development effectiveness.
Climate change and development cooperation Climate change has only recently been recognized as a development challenge, as well as an environmental issue. The appropriate role of development cooperation in supporting and financing climate change adaptation is still emerging.
Projects
Reforming the governance of the aid architecture
From aid to development effectiveness
Climate change, development cooperation & financing adaptation
Southern perspectives on reform of the international development architecture
Focus on Canadian Aid
NSI aims to produce policy relevant research on strengthening Canada’s aid and development policies, and on how Canada can better advance the international aid effectiveness agenda. Read more on the “Strengthening Canadian Aid ” page.
Conference
Does Aid Work, Can it Work Better? Crucial questions on the road to Accra and Doha
This conference focused on development cooperation and financing issues in the lead up to the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and the Doha Financing for Development Meeting.
Access the conference page, including report, agenda, and presentations.