presents
Does Aid Work? Can it work better?
Crucial questions on the road to Accra and Doha
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 17-18, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 101 Lyon St.
Ottawa, Ontario
This conference focused on development cooperation and financing issues in the lead up to the September 2008 Accra High Level Forum on the “Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness”; and the November 2008 Doha meeting on Financing for Development. These events are expected to have a major impact on aid and development finance policy, and on the long-term prospects of developing countries.
The conference program highlighted Southern perspectives on development cooperation, since these are otherwise frequently downplayed in development policy debates. It also recognized that improved policy and practice must be based on solid evidence, and therefore places special emphasis on presenting insights from recent research.
The conference featured speakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from North America.
It took stock of current evidence and thinking on the impact and effectiveness of aid; assesed the relative importance of aid compared to other sources of development finance; and examined new models and new actors in development cooperation.
It gave particular consideration to the implications of these for the Accra and Doha meetings.
Read the following two reports, which draw on the conference proceedings
- Policy Note:
This Policy Note is directed at the upcoming Accra meeting on the Paris Declaration, and the Financing for Development Review meeting in Doha. It argues that the OECD Development Assistance Committee is increasingly unsuited for the task of managing a rapidly evolving aid system. More seriously, the DAC lacks legitimacy from the perspective of aid-recipients and in its current form cannot represent their interests.
Reforming aid and development cooperation: Accra, Doha and beyond
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