The International Aid System: What’s Next?

An informal workshop co-hosted by the OECD Development Centre and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), in collaboration with the OECD Development Assistance Committee / Directorate for Development Cooperation, with financial support from DFID, the Netherlands, Sweden and the World Bank.

4 February 2005

(By invitation only)

OECD - Room 7 - 19, rue de Franqueville 75016 Paris

• Summary
• Background note
• Agenda (French)
• Agenda (English)
• Preliminary list of participants
• Logistical arrangements
• Map : Access to OECD Headquarters 

Presentations:

• What If Aid Harmonisation and Alignment Occurred Exactly as Intended? A Reality Check on the Paris Forum on Aid Effectiveness + Powerpoint (Rogerson, A.)
• Nicaragua: Harmonization and Alignment Process (Mauricio Gómez Lacayo)
• Features and Performance of Local Aid Systems (Oliver S. Saasa)
• The Future of Development Financing: Challenges, Scenarios and Strategic Choices (Keith Bezanson)
• The Architecture for Development Co-operation: Is Reform Feasible without a Policy Paradigm Shift? (Katseli, L.T. )
• Not Why. Not What. How? (Simon Maxwell,Overseas Development Institute)
  

Related papers:

• Underpinning Development through More Efficient International Cooperation (H.E. Ambassador G.-B. Andersson)
• Les enjeux d’une réforme de l’architecture institutionnelle internationale en matière d’aide publique au développement (Bellot J.-M. et J.-M. Châtaigner)
• Can More Aid be Spent on Africa? (De Renzio, P.)
• Reforming the Formula: A Modest Proposal for Introducing Development Outcomes in IDA Allocation Procedures (Kanbur, R.)
• Is Aid Effective? (Mark McGillivray)
• Why Do Aid Agencies Exist? (B. Martens)
• UN Development Co-operation (S. Maxwell)
• Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals (Reisen , H.)
• The International Aid System 2005-2010: Forces For and Against Change (Rogerson, R. with A. Hewitt and D. Waldenberg)
• Executive Summary: The Future of Development Financing: Challenges and Strategic Choices (F. Sagasti, K. Bezanson and F. Prada)
• Giving Aid Teeth (Louka T. Katseli)

• Pooling of Technical Assistance (ECDPM)

• Vision and Options for Change for the International Development Architecture (Turner, R. et al.)

• The Seven Habits of Effective Aid: Best Practices, Challenges and Open Questions (Rogerson, A. and De Renzio, P.)

• Incentives for Harmonisation and Alignment in Aid Agencies (De Renzio, P., et al.)

 

Contacts:

Andrew Rogerson: a.rogerson@odi.org.uk
Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte: hbsl@oecd.org
Felix Zimmermann: Felix.Zimmermann@oecd.org