A two-day training workshop on aid effectiveness for CSOs in Mongolia culminated in the creation of task teams to conduct a CSO monitoring of the PD and AAA implementation at the country level and prepare for dialogues with donors and governments to assert CSO participation in aid monitoring and evaluation and in the official PD survey process. Eighteen organizations gathered together from 16-17 November 2010 in Ulaanbaatar, through the efforts of the Country Core Group

In a two-day training on aid effectiveness organized by the Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, CSO participants called on government and donor representatives present during the event for their participation in aid monitoring and in national planning of priorities and strategies through a mechanism for multi-stakeholder dialogues. CSOs from all provinces in Kyrgyzstan participated.  The Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan prepared and translated a big reading material package of various related documents and

The Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) in collaboration with Reality of Aid (RoA) organised a capacity building workshop for Vietnamese civil society organisations (CSOs) on aid effectiveness on 19-20 October 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The objectives of this workshop were to build the knowledge and capacity of Vietnamese non-government organisations (VNGOs) in relation to aid effectiveness, and to develop a core group of VNGO representatives to take forward the aid effectiveness agenda including developing

The Aid Accountability Group, with assistance from the Reality of Aid Network, organized a multistakeholder consultation on the Joint Cooperation Strategy (JCS) in the context of aid and development effectiveness, 20 September 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The JCS, signed by the Government of Bangladesh and 18 Development Partners (including ADB and WB apart from donor countries) on June 2010, is a strategy for signatories to work together in the spirit of PD and AAA, aiming

Twenty Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from all regions of Kyrgyzstan created a Network for Effectiveness of Development during the CSO Round Table on Advocacy of Paris Declaration (PD) and Accra Action Agenda (AAA): “From Effectiveness of Aid to Effectiveness of Development” on 13 September 2010 in Bishkek. The Coalition for Development Effectiveness was created in the framework of “Advocacy of Paris Declaration and Accra Action Agenda” project, which aimed to strengthen democratic country ownership with

The Consultation Demanded a Tri-party Relationship among NGOs, Government and Development Partners to Make Aid More Effective Dhaka, 25 August 2010- A national consultation titled `Engagement of Civil Society in Aid Effectiveness’ has been held at the national press club in the city today. The consultation was attended by a wide range of civil society groups including NGOs, community organizations, women rights groups, research and advocacy organizations, trade union groups, academicians, human rights organizations, media and