OECD fuels BBC World Debate on Africa and its partners

07-Oct-2008

Delegates to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness  (Accra, 2-4 Sept) attended the recording of a special BBC World Debate on trade, investment and aid effectiveness in Africa. The debate, produced in association with the BBC World Service Trust, focused on the important issues being discussed at the Forum. Key personalities exchanged ideas and opinions during the hour-long programme. Investing in Africa: What works? will be broadcast Saturday 11 Oct at 0710, 1510 and 1910 GMT, as well as Sunday 12 Oct at 0010 GMT. Check the BBC website for local air times in your area.

DACnews September 2008: from Accra to Action

24-Sep-2008

This special issue of DACnews reports on the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, Ghana, 2-4  September), where unprecedented consensus was reached on what is needed to significantly step up aid effectiveness. We explore what it took to make it happen, the important decisions and agreements made there, and one of the highlights of the event: the recording of a special BBC World Debate, live in Accra.

Learning Lessons on Innovative Finance at the OECD Global Forum on Development

on 07-Oct-2008

Participants in this Global Forum Workshop discussed their experiences with innovative financing mechanisms for development. Focusing on the health sector, and drawing more particularly on a case study on the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, the aim meeting allowed for a useful lessons sharing exercise aiming at the improvement and future design of financing mechanisms. Presentations and background documents are now online.

Policy Dialogue on Aid for Trade, 3-4 November 2008

19-Sep-2008

The OECD with the support of the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund of the United States is organizing a Policy Dialogue on Aid for Trade on 3-4 November 2008 in the OECD Conference Centre. The main objectives of this two-day event is to discuss between policy makers, practitioners and academics how the developing community can help developing countries to build trade capacity and address supply-side constraints, in order to realize the full benefits from their integration in the world economy.

Donors and Developing Countries Agree to Reform Aid

10-Sep-2008

Developed and developing countries agreed to take bold steps to reform the way aid is given and spent. After three days of intense negotiations during the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana (2-4 September), 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 are pledging to account to each other and their citizens. Read more…

Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs: Reshaping the Development Agenda

Poor men and women depend heavily on natural resources for their livelihoods and food security, but suffer from inadequate access and declining quality of these environmental assets.With the aim of ensuring that the 2008 High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) gives adequate priority to the role of improved environmental management, the OECD has co-organized a policy dialogue on Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs: Reshaping the Development Agenda, on 23 September 2008 in New York.

2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration

27-Aug-2008

How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this report which presents the results from the second follow-up survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It assesses progress in 54 developing countries and helps us understand the challenges in making development aid more effective. The findings are clear: donors and partner countries need to take stock and commit to doing whatever is needed to reach the agreed targets by 2010.