Aid Effectiveness

Accra Agenda for Action
In March 2005 around 100 development actors—mainly ministers, head of agencies and senior officials—adopted an ambitious set of reforms in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Three and half years later, the same players are reconvening in Accra , Ghana , in September 2008 to review the progress of the Paris Declaration and address the challenges that lie ahead.

To facilitate this gathering, the DAC working party of OECD drafted the “Accra Agenda for Action,” which throws some more...
August 6, 2008
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