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Issue 5 July 2011
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Upcoming Activities Better Aid Updates Send Your Stories: Case Stories of Civil Society Engagement on Aid Effectiveness II IBON to release primer on Busan 2 6
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Upcoming Activities
July August 2011
Asia Pacific
Pacific CSO Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness July 8-9 Nadi, Fiji Co-organizer PIANGO Contact Emele Duituturaga |emele@piango.net
CSO Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness July 5 Suva, Fiji Co-organizer NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji Contact Virisila Buadromo|virisila@fwrm.org.fj North Luzon-wide NGO discussion on aid and development effectiveness July 5 Co-organizer Aidwatch Philippines Contact Jazminda Lumang| jlumang@ibon.org
Upcoming Activities
The Past and Future of Foreign ODA in China 7 July Co-organizer China Development Effectiveness Network/China Association of NGOs Contact Zhou Shuwen | zhoushuwen@cango.org CSO Workshop and Multistakeholder Consultation on Aid and Development Effectiveness: Road to Busan July 21-22 Dushanbe, Tajikistan Co-organizer NGO Jahon Contact Shahlo Dzhuraeva |ngo.jahon@gmail.com CSO Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness July 27 Co-organizer National Civic Forum Contact Hassan Abdel Ati |h_abdelati@hotmail.com
Latin America
CSO Consultation
Sa Paulo Tentative end July/start of August Co-organizer Associacao Brasileira de ONGs Contact Isabel M. P. Pato| isabelpato@abong.org.br
Upcoming Activities
Aid Effectiveness towards Development Effectiveness Managua July 28-29 Co-organizer: RENICC and AMPDI Contact: Georgina Muoz Pavon|georginac@gmail.com The CSO and the International Development Aid towards Busan Buenos Aires August 2-3 Co-organizer: Encuentro de Entidades No Gubermentales para el Desarrollo Contact Daniela Jaschek| djaschek@gmail.com CSO Consultation Santiago Tentative August 12-13 Co-organizer ACCION Contact Maria Pia Amatt| mattacerna@gmail.com International Cooperation for Development of Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Tentative 1st week of August Co-organizer: Alianza ONG Contact Addys Then| athen@alianzaong.org.do
Upcoming Activities
CSO Consultation Bogota Tentative 4th week of August/start of September Co-organizer Confederacion Colombia de ONG, La Alianza Contact Liliana Burgos| direccion@ccong.org.co
Africa
CSO Consultation Tentative 2nd week of July Co-organizer GRAPAD Contact Aurelien Atidegla| acaurelien@hotmail.com CSO Consultation Accra Tentative 4th week of July Co-organizer Ghana-GAEF Contact Samuel Zan| szan@ighmail.com CSO Consultation Tentative August 21-22 Bangui Co-organizer CAR COSSOCIM Contact GodefroyMokamanede| godefroymokamanede@hotmail.com CSO Consultations
Tentative 2nd and 3rd week July
Updates
unites over 1000 development organizations from civil society, and has been working on development cooperation and challenging the aid effectiveness agenda since January 2007. BetterAid is leading many of the civil society activities including in-country consultations, studies and monitoring, in the lead up to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) in 2011.
BetterAid recently launched civil societys Key Asks towards the HLF4 and CSOs can endorse the document on the BetterAid website. Womens organizations internationally are finalizing their Key Demands document towards the HLF4, following a consultation on Development Cooperation, Womens Rights and Gender Equality in Brussels on 9th and 10th of June. Almost 70 women from over 20 different countries in the world participated in this meeting. Initial plans for a potential Womens forum alongside the HLF4 were also discussed at the meeting.
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African womens groups and civil society organizations published a regional declaration following a regional consultative meeting on aid effectiveness organized by Reality of Aid and the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET): Opportunities and Challenges in the Implementation of the Paris Declaration (PD) and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) in Africa held in Yaound, Cameroun on 30th 31st May. The declaration includes a shopping list of aid effectiveness commitments that governments and development partners must respect. Read it here: http://www.betteraid.org/en/news/aidand-developing-countries/472-africanwomens-groups-declaration-tobusan.html
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Faith-based groups in Africa also made a declaration towards the HLF4 following a meeting organized in April by Reality of Aid and the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC). The declaration calls for the inclusion of CSOs including faith based organizations as members of the national delegation to Busan, and calling on donors to implement a range of aid effectiveness commitments. Read their demands here: http://www.betteraid.org/en/news/aidand-developing-countries/473-thenairobi-declaration.html
At the beginning of June BetterAid sent a letter to G8 leaders professing that the G8 Deauville Declaration includes no commitments to making development aid more effective, despite this being vital to achieving the G8s broader concerns.
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With HLF4 approaching in November, the time is now for the G8 to demonstrate that aid effectiveness is a priority.
In the European Union, BetterAid delegates met with the EUs Technical Seminar on June 15 in order to present and discuss BetterAids key demands towards the HLF 4 in Busan. The Technical Seminar gathers aid effectiveness experts from the European Commission and EU Member States.
The Make Aid Transparent campaign was launched on June 8th. It is a coalition of civil society organizations who have come together to call on donors to publish more and better information about the aid they give. See http://www.makeaidtransparent.org/
For more information about the BetterAid platform, visit: www.betteraid.org and follow BetterAid on Twitter, at https://twitter.com/betteraid
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At present, IBON/ ROA- CORT already has had some submissions coming in from Asia- Pacific but more is welcomed. As of now CORT is still waiting for any CSOs coming from Africa and Latin America to submit.
Interested in participating in country processes? Do you want your country stories disseminated? The following members of the Country Outreach Team are ready to work with you:
Nicole Benedicto Team Leader and Outreach Officer for Latin America nbenedicto@realityofaid.org Ava Danlog Outreach Officer for Asia Pacific adanlog@realityofaid.org Myrna Maglahus Outreach Officer for Africa mmaglahus@realityofaid.org Goldie Liza Tanglao Communications Officer gtanglao@realityofaid.org Algely Comia Program Assistant acomia@realityofaid.org
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