The Paris Declaration: Towards Enhanced Aid Effectiveness?

The Paris Declaration: Towards Enhanced Aid Effectiveness?

About the Issue This Reality Check provides an overview of the Paris Declaration and highlights donor commitments that purport to improve aid effectiveness. The papers present critiques to the Declaration and pose challenges to donor countries, local and national...
Aid for Agriculture and Rural Development

Aid for Agriculture and Rural Development

About the Issue The emerging consensus in development circles about the need to increase support for agriculture and rural development is certainly a welcome change after decades of relative neglect. But we need to go beyond “more of the same”. The challenge is not...
Civil Society and Development Effectiveness: Another View

Civil Society and Development Effectiveness: Another View

About the Issue This edition of the Reality Check tackles the critical issues of civil society and development effectiveness. In the lead-up to the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, CSOs have been challenged to respond to the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid...
Climate Funds and Development

Climate Funds and Development

About the Issue Climate Change is the biggest challenge confronting our present generation with potentially catastrophic consequences for ecological systems along with people’s health, safety and livelihoods. But its impacts are unevenly distributed. Those with the...