Latest news:

WECA project has been closed. Report from the Southern consultations in ActionAid EU Brussels Office, Belgium, 17, 22, 30 May. Report from the roundtable in Copenhagen, Denmark, 21st April Briefing Notes available in French Report from the roundtable in Banjul, Gambia, 28-29 April Report from the roundtable in Kigali, Rwanda, 4 March What are your [...]

WECA closing strategy.

This website does not provide anymore possibility for external inputs and it does not provide further update either. But a final document summarising this process will be posted shortly. The website will remain open for consultation.

WECA project has been closed

ECDPM and ActionAid International are pleased to announce that the WECA project has been closed. ‘Whither EC Aid’ (WECA) is an independent, joint ECDPM-ActionAid project that aims to contribute to a broader-based common understanding of the characteristics, added value and impact of EC development cooperation. After the finalization of an initial Discussion Note, the project [...]

Action Aid final position on the Third High Level Forum on Aid effectiveness.

ActionAid said today that key demands by developing countries and campaigners for immediate improvements to make aid work better for the poor were blocked by the US, Japan and the World Bank. Hopes had been high that key reforms would be agreed to make aid more efficient, transparent and effective, but these were scuppered by [...]

DONORS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AGREE TO REFORM AID, High Level Forum assesses the effectiveness of development assistance.

Developed and developing countries today agreed to take bold steps to reform the way aid is given and spent. After three days of intense negotiations, they endorsed the Accra Agenda for Action. Developing countries are committing to take control of their own futures, donors to co-ordinating better amongst themselves, and both parties to the Agenda [...]