Global Perspectives on the bumpy road to Accra, by Martin Behrens

Posted on August 22, 2008 by ecdpm

The August 2008 issue of the magazine ‘Global Perspectives’ focuses on the process towards the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF3). The HLF3 aims to review the Paris Declaration which was signed to improve ways that donors and recipients work together to speed up progress toward the MDGs. Civil society organisations fear that [...]

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Evaluation of the Paris Declaration, The first evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration is now available

Posted on August 21, 2008 by ecdpm

In response to The Paris Declaration commitment of conducting an independent cross-country evaluation, it has been decided to conduct a two-phase evaluation, commissioned and overseen by an international Reference Group, comprising members of the DAC Evaluation Network , partner country members of the WP-EFF and other interested countries, and representatives of civil society. The first [...]

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Power, Knowledge and Home Grown Solutions, by Norman Girvan

Posted on August 19, 2008 by ecdpm

It has often been said that ‘knowledge is power’ and development knowledge—the widely accepted theories and polices of development—is an area in which the North exerts power over the Global South. The institutions that produce and disseminate such knowledge are largely controlled by the North and thereby exercise considerable influence on government policies in the [...]

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Report on the use of country systems in public financial management, assessing the achievements in aid effectiveness, OECD Development Centre, 2008

Posted on August 19, 2008 by ecdpm

A robust public financial management (PFM) system is vital to a country’s development efforts and to the effectiveness of the aid funds that support those efforts. Three years ago, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness gave new prominence to this idea, as partner countries committed to strengthen their PFM systems and donors committed to use [...]

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Paris Declaration on aid a form of collective colonialism by donors , by Yash Tandon from Southern Centre.

Posted on August 18, 2008 by ecdpm

At first glance, the Paris Declaration (PD) looks benign. It recognises faults of the present system, and sets out sensible principles. Why, then, are the developing countries not all that excited? Many have signed on to the PD, but apparently without fully analysing the implications of its proposals. Meanwhile, awareness is growing among both civil-society [...]

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