Civil Society at its best in Accra
September 3rd, 2008Posted by Nuria Molina
Extremely active and vocal at yesterday’s roundtables, civil society present in Accra are performing at their best. They are insistently trying to get their voices heard – even if they are not always carefully listened to. Civil society’s active participation in Accra is a great of example of how citizens, social movements and NGOs are a great piece in the democratic puzzle.
They are crucial to make aid work for poverty reduction – to make aid accountable, transparent and to strengthen the channels of downwards accountability and democratic ownership. Hopefully the energy invested will not be in vain and Ministers will listen. They probably should brush up their memory today and remember that they were indeed chosen by those citizens that today are asking them to deliver and make aid effective to eradicate world’s poverty.