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Strengthening Country Ownership
At this Second Annual Plenary, high-level policy makers from official donor agencies and civil society representatives reflected on how to strengthen country ownership of development policies. The objective of the event was to help guide discussions on ownership at the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in Accra in 2-4 September 2008. A Report will be available soon.
Discussions were kicked off by presentations from experts from North and South, focusing on the predictability of aid, the controversial issue of conditionality, the challenge of developing capacity for budgeting and the need to "broaden" the concept of ownership to include actors outside government. Participants drew on the results of Workshops on Ownership in Practice (27-28 September 2007) and Scaling Up at Country Level (11 December 2007).
Presentations
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Introductory presentations
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| Strengthening country ownership |
Richard Carey, Director, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
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Are we serious about ownership?
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Javier Santiso, Director, OECD Development Centre
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Morning Session: More Predictable Aid, More Ownership?
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| Aid Predictability, Ownership and Development in Africa |
Patrick Osakwe, Chief, Financing Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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| Rwanda's Financing Scenarios |
Adapted from presentation by:
John Rwangombwa, Secretary General and Secretary to the Treasury, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Government of Rwanda (10 December 2007)
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Parallel Session A: Capacity for Budgeting
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ODA Capacity Development: Why it is not delivering results
The Bonn Consensus on Capacity Development
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Talaat Abdel-Malek, Economic Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of International Co-operation, Egypt
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Parallel Session B: Policy Space and Conditionality
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| The South Centre's Strategy on Aid Exit |
Yash Tandon, Executive Director, South Centre
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Afternoon Session: Broadening Country Ownership for Development
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| Strengthening Ownership through Broad Democratic Processes |
Antonio Tujan Jr., Director, IBON Foundation, Philippines
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| Ownership Requires Research |
Berit Olsson, Head, Department for Research Cooperation, Swedish International Cooperation Agency
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Background documents
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