Busan: a new beginning for democratic ownership?
Date : January 16, 2012
One of the main objectives of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan was to establish strategies to move on from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness. The ownership of aid by partner countries is at the heart of development policies and strategies and has become fundamental in development. It must be thoroughly democratized in order to ensure that recipient countries “are on track to achieving sustainable and inclusive growth”, as the European Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, pointed out.
Aid effectiveness and accountability
Date : January 13, 2012
During the panel on “Aid effectiveness and Accountability”, key development players met to discuss the agreed post-Busan framework for development cooperation, and to present the prospects for change opened up by the Busan partnership agreement for effective cooperation for development, which covers traditional donors, South-South cooperation agencies, the BRIC countries, civil society organisations and donor agencies.
Agenda for change - Human Rights
Date : January 11, 2012
With entire populations rising up in the name of freedom and dignity, the “Arab Spring” has clearly shown the importance of respect for human rights as a prerequisite for development in any country.
Decentralisation and development: issues and perspectives
Date : January 9, 2012
On Thursday 15 December, a panel event entitled “Spotlight on decentralisation: strengthening local governance and accountability mechanisms - translating development strategies into results at local level” discussed development issues and their links with decentralisation, to find ways of strengthening local governance and accountability mechanisms. The panellists and their audience discussed potential strategies to achieve satisfactory development results at local scale.
Moving beyond electoral democracies
Date : January 6, 2012
In the spring of 2011, a wind of revolution swept through a number of Mediterranean countries and the Middle East. They were all driven by the political ideals of freedom and dignity and led by an educated and modern youth that is “hooked up” to new technologies. However, the “Arab Spring” countries do not all share the same history and do not all have the same political, social and economic characteristics.
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