„Donor harmonisation, Southern discomfort“, a critical Southern perspective of the Paris Declaration values.

Posted on July 30, 2008 by ecdpm

While the governments of rich nations want to streamline their global-development efforts in the OECD context, those of many developing countries are less enthusiastic. The Paris Declaration’s performance conditionalities are defined by the donors in conjunction with the World Bank. If “recipient” countries do not perform, they are subject to penalties. If “donor” countries do [...]

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DFID pushing for reforms in the structure of EU development aid

Posted on July 29, 2008 by ecdpm

The structure of EU development aid is complex and thought to limit its effectiveness. Institutional reforms are being pushed for to streamline the development of policy and management of funds. The UK arm of Action for Global Health met with Mikaela Gavas of DFID’s EU Department on July 17th. The purpose of the meeting was [...]

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Report on the International Conference on Development assistance operators from the EU Member States: Experiences, trends and challenges.Ljubliana, June 2008.

Posted on July 28, 2008 by ecdpm

Many EU new Member States have only recently shifted from being recipients of Development Assistance to a role of International Donors. A transition process which New Member States have successfully concluded in the recent past, provides them with a valuable knowledge of transition and the EU accession best practices. The conference on “Development Assistance Operators [...]

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FRIDE: Democratic ownership and mutual accountability

Posted on July 25, 2008 by ecdpm

Democratic ownership” and mutual accountability are two of the main fields of political controversy in the debate on the global governance of aid. The democratic ownership is a claim to extend the definition and the development implementation strategies of ownership beyond the governments, toward the parliaments, the institutions of finance and the civil society. In [...]

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Can the UN Development Cooperation Forum replace the OECD DAC as the place for global aid negotiations?

Posted on July 23, 2008 by ecdpm

The first United Nations Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) took place in the first week of July in New York.The main topic was reforming aid. Can it deliver where other institutions have struggled? The 2005 UN World Summit decided “to convene a biennial high-level Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) that would review trends in international development cooperation, [...]

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