From Aid to Development Effectiveness: The Road to Busan

**From Reality of Aid.

The Fourth High-Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan will be the major international conference on development cooperation in 2011. The Busan HLF offers a unique opportunity to look back on the progress made over the past decade in improving the effectiveness of aid, and to develop an ambitious forward-looking agenda for the future.

Civil society organisations (CSOs) from Europe and globally argue that the aid effectiveness agenda needs to be developed further to address development effectiveness: How can aid be reformed to better promote sustainable change within a democratic framework that addresses the causes as well as the symptoms of poverty, inequality and marginalisation?

This seminar will explore this qualitative change from aid to development effectiveness on the Road to Busan. It debates the expectations for the Busan HLF focusing on the contribution of the European Union. It also deals with how this new concept will impact on how the European Union designs its development assistance.

This seminar is organised by three European and global networks joining together more than 1000 CSOs.

Facilitator: Ester Asin (CARE International/CONCORD)
Speakers: Jorge Balbis (ALOP/Reality of Aid)
Bodo Ellmers (Eurodad)
Gideon Rabinowitz (CONCORD AidWatch)