Development Effectiveness

Editorial: Getting to the Heart of Development Effectiveness By Gerry Barr   This issue of e-Au Courant looks at a shift in development discourse from “aid effectiveness” to “development effectiveness”. The Paris Declaration and the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness are the starting off points for this shift. Human rights, social justice and gender equality need to be at the heart of development effectiveness.   » Read more

Development Effectiveness: Claiming Rights and Achieving Development

By Tony Tujan Tujan, Chair of the Reality of Aid Network, says that there can be no aid effectiveness if aid does not fulfil the goals of development such as human rights, social justice and gender equality. Development effectiveness assumes that aid must be managed and delivered with full accountability, ownership by the poor and their countries and aligned to their priorities. But the aid system has a long way to go to realize such effectiveness.   » Read more

Women Need a Break: Gender, the Paris Declaration and Women’s Emancipation

By Molly Kane Kane, Executive Director of Inter Pares, states in “Women Need a Break” that gender equality and human rights are not a parallel debate of aid and development policies but essential development goals. Yet, nothing in the Paris Declaration directly addresses the gendered nature of poverty. If the gendered nature of poverty is not addressed, then what possible confidence could there be in the Declaration’s underlying assumptions about its focus on poverty itself?   » Read more

The North-South Challenge: Civil Society and Development Effectiveness

By Brian Tomlinson Tomlinson, CCIC’s aid policy analyst, asks: Are Northern Civil Society Organizations ready to apply the aid effectiveness principles of the Paris Declaration to improve their development effectiveness? According to Tomlison, the answer is “no”, but not because CSOs reject efforts to improve their development effectiveness. The answer is “no” because the Paris Declaration is the wrong frame for civil society organizations’ efforts towards development effectiveness.   » Read more

Making Mutual Accountability Real

By Mary Robinson Robinson, the first women President of Ireland and the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, says that civil society is sending a clear message that aid is not delivering for poor people; that despite commitments in the Paris Declaration, practice hasn’t changed enough. She asks: “How can there be real ownership and accountability?”   » Read more

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Katia Gianneschi

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Michael Stephens

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