Preparations for Busan aid effectiveness summit intensify
28 April 2011
The official website for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness to be held in Busan, Korea, from 29 November to 1 December 2011, has been launched. To facilitate knowledge-sharing and priority-setting ahead of the meeting, the OECD/DAC, in cooperation with the Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) and the Southern initiative CD Alliance, are coordinating broad consultations on capacity-development related issues in the aid effectiveness agenda.
The network organized a preparatory workshop on "Capacity Development: from Concepts to Implementation," in Cairo on 28-29 March 2011. Participants reviewed progress since the last Aid Effectiveness Forum held in Accra in 2008, particularly focusing on challenges faced in making the concept and key principles of capacity development more operational. They called for more action-oriented plansto foster endogenous capacity development and began forming coalitions to take actions in a number of priority areas - prior and post Busan.
Details of the outcome of the workshop, including blog posts from some of the facilitators, are available on the LenCD website. It is also possible to download a synthesis document incorporating five perspective notes prepared by the network in 2010 and further elaborated with views from different stakeholders. The five capacity development areas are: (1) the enabling environment; (2) sector strategies and country systems; (3) fragile situations; (4) technical co-operation; (5) civil society actors.
Meanwhile, an online consultation involving over sixty developing countries and 163 people has shed new light on what the developing world wants and expects from the Busan HLF. Responses to the web-based questionnaire came from individuals representing governments, donors and non-state actors in developing countries. The consultation took place from October to December 2010 and was designed and managed by the OECD in partnership with African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme.
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