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Results from Accra mostly disappointing
Last week ministers and senior officials from over 150 countries including heads of multilateral institutions and civil society organisations concluded their High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana. At the forum they discussed a limited number of key issues around the subject of Aid Effectiveness. The result was the negotiation and endorsement of the Accra Action Agenda (AAA), or as we wanted to call it... the Accra IN-Action Agenda.
GCAP representatives including Adelaide Sosseh (GCAP co-chair, The Gambia), Christophe Zoungrana (GCAP Africa Secretariat, Senegal) and Seth Abloso (GCAP Global Council, Ghana) were present at the forum and worked with the Better Aid coalition, CIVICUS and others to present a powerful civil society case for increased Aid Effectiveness. The GCAP delegation engaged in a significant amount of media work, and Kumi Naidoo (co-chair, South Africa) took part in the High-Level Forum itself.
However, despite our efforts, the official statement is not what civil society expected. It is not very clear on time-bound monitorable commitments, although at least it does contain some useful language and a couple of important new commitments in the areas of predictability, budget support, conditionality and transparency.
You can read the full official statement here, or read the reaction from Reality of Aid.
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