Development effectiveness and international aid actors

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:36

Briefing by the North-South Institute

Over the last decade, official aid policy debates have increasingly centred on improving aid effectiveness. The origins for this focus can be traced to the 1995 OECD-Development Assistance Committee statement, “Shaping the 21st Century”. Momentum grew in the 2000s, with a series of High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness, including the 2005 meeting that resulted in the Paris Declaration. Along with the Millennium Development Goals, the Paris Declaration and its 2008 companion (the Accra Agenda for Action) now represent the key international frameworks for donor and developing country efforts on aid effectiveness.

Read the full brief here:

http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/Issues%20Brief%20Sept.pdf

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