Accra 2008: the bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agriculture
2008
L. Cabral
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness will be reviewed at the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. The Paris Declaration establishes operating principles for donors and recipient governments to improve the effectiveness of aid. In the agricultural sector development cooperation struggles to comply with the Paris principles. This short paper sets out areas requiring focused attention in the run-up to Accra 2008. <br /><br />The following issues are raised: the bulk of the activity in agriculture takes place within the private sector the dominance of space and sheer diversity of agricultural production systems require context-tailored solutions ownership, alignment and harmonisation considered from an agricultural perspective. The author highlights how the Accra Forum will provide an opportunity to rethink the adequacy of the current aid effectiveness framework. In relation to agriculture, this paper suggests that there are gaps to fill, biases to correct and outstanding challenges to discuss in Accra. These include: moving beyond the present focus on governments and public expenditure redefining and strengthening coordination addressing the challenge of donor division of labour and synchronised complementarity of interventions.<br />
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