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To deepen understanding of aid effectiveness issues, build ownership of the Accra agenda, and develop broad consensus around key issues, the international community is conducting a number of consultation meetings before the Third HLF. These consultations include a broad set of participants: representatives of partner countries, non traditional donors and other providers of development aid, and civil society. The meetings are designed to foster continued learning about aid effectiveness and elicit input into the development of the Third HLF. Consultation meetings with partner countries Four consultation meetings took place during 2007: - Mauritius, 21 June, with officials from Haiti and 13 African countries
- Ghana, 25 June, with officials from 7 African countries
- Honduras, 23 August, with participants from 9 Latin American and Caribbean countries
- Philippines, 17 September, with participants from 10 Asian countries
The following document provides an overview of these events: "Summary of Partner Country Consultation on the Preparation of the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness". Regional preparatory events Various regional and sub-regional preparatory events are under preparation for the months leading up to the HLF. The tentative schedule for these events is as follows: Civil society consultations The Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness (AG-CS) has launched an extensive consultation process to help establish a broad consensus on issues of civil society and aid effectiveness. During 2007 regional consultations were held in Hanoi, Vietnam; Lusaka, Zambia; Cotonou, Benin; Managua, Nicaragua; and Kathmandu, Nepal; and an international meeting was held in Ottawa, Canada, in February 2008. The International Civil Society Steering Group (ICSSG) is also organizing a civil society event on aid effectiveness in Accra immediately before the HLF. Capacity development
The OECD Development Assistance Committee has asked that international partners collaborate to highlight attention on capacity development as a priority theme for the HLF3. A central focus of this effort leading up to Accra represented a major workshop in Bonn, Germany. The workshop was co-chaired by former DAC Chair Richard Manning and a senior co-chair from the South. The workshop objectives were twofold:
“For Accra”: The first objective was to derive a series of key messages for the relevant Accra Roundtables and for the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA).
“And Beyond”: A second objective of the workshop was to reflect on post Accra action through 2010/11 and the longer term vision and strategic direction that may eventually tackle some of the fundamental governance, institutional and policy constraints to capacity.
The workshop built on the latest international guidelines on The Challenge of Capacity Development: Working Towards Good Practice. To access the Summary Conclusions, Consensus document, and detailed Agenda of the Bonn Capacity Development Workshop, please click here.
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