Development Cooperation
and Aid Effectiveness
Research Program
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.
Developmenteffectiveness
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.
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.
