Civil society organizations worldwide contribute in unique and essential ways to development as independent and innovative agents of change. For the first time in the history of high level OECD events, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will include CSOs as official participants, recognizing them as equal and important development actors in their own right.
1st December 2011 - After extended negotiations,18 sherpas elected to represent a wide group of stakeholders reached agreement on the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation.
This declaration for the first time establishes an agreed framework for development cooperation that embraces traditional donors, South-South cooperators, the BRICs, CSOs and private funders. This marks a turning point for international development cooperation. The process has been guided by the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF), which brings together representatives of over 80 countries and organizations.
Download the declaration (see paragraph 22 for the statement on civil society)
- Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association - address to the Busan Global Civil Society Forum here
- Foruth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness - Closing Ceremony download
- Civil society's reaction to the Busan Outcome Document download
- Civil Society Statement to HLF-4
- HLF4 Day 1: Civil Society mobilizes, China reportedly leaves talks
- China says it is not ready to endorse a partnership for global development, snubbing other countries' attempts to forge a common front on aid. Read the full article from the guardian here
- This blog post on Oxfam America’s Politics of Poverty website urges the debate on development effectiveness in Busan to be conscious of why we are here: development of the people, by the people, for the people. Read the post here
- Read about Civil Society’s vision for Busan here
- The Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness HLF-4 webpage here
- Keep up to date with news from HLF-4 here
- See photos from HLF-4 here (images courtesy of the Open Forum & CCC)
At Busan the world will take steps to boost the impact of development aid. The stakes are huge; better lives for billions, hundreds of billions of development aid dollars, vital international relationships and growing demands to see results. Monitoring, evaluating and documenting actions will support decisions based on facts. More
http://www.aideffectiveness.org/busanhlf4/
Busan Outcome Document (BOD) Download
