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Putting donors under surveillance? A Eurodad briefing on the aid effectiveness agenda

02 March 2007

Development aid is more in the public eye than ever before. In recent major international summits world leaders committed to increasing the amount of aid for developing countries. Yet, aid increases cannot successfully reduce poverty without making sure it gets to those who most need it. The multiplication of donor missions and procedures their conflicting plans and objectives at country level as well as promotion of their own interests  to the detriment of recipient countries priorities are major obstacles to ensuring that aid benefits enough poor people.

Civil Society Organisations have long highlighted the need for "better" aid. This briefing explains the commitments and process in the official "aid effectiveness agenda", which represents significant pledges to reform how aid money gets spent.

Full briefing : 996 Kb