1. The Accra High-Level Forum: A Roadmap to Aid Effectiveness
April 2008

2. What is Accra HLF 3?
High level political event on aid effectiveness, prior to the UN Summit on MDGs (September) and Doha Financing for Development (December)
Stocktaking of Paris Declaration commitments
Forward looking event: road to 2011 and beyond
Attending will be around 100 partner countries, most donors, most international aid agencies
Not an “OECD/DAC”, “Ghana”, or “World Bank” event – but representing a partnership of donors and partners
800 – 1000 participants including civil society organizations
Ministers responsible for aid received invitation
Strong civil society engagement

3. Main Objectives for the Accra HLF
Gauging progress on implementing the Paris Declaration
Reinforcing country leadership of aid, ownership, and building capacity: putting partner countries in the lead is key
Learning from surveys, initial evaluations, and analytic work, and addressing shortfalls and other bottlenecks
Maintaining high level attention
Broadening and deepening implementation of aid effectiveness
Ensuring Paris/Accra process is robust enough to serve new aid architecture – e.g., “new” donors, vertical funds, private foundations, the private sector
Making the link to achieving development results

4. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
In March 2005, Ministers and Heads of Agencies of partner countries and development partners endorsed the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
It reflected the commitment to provide and manage aid in line with the principles of ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability as a means of better achieving development results.
The declaration also established a monitoring framework of indicators and targets

5. The Paris Declaration Principles

6. Paris Declaration Indicators to Monitor Commitments
SURVEY
REVIEWS
Ownership 1
National development strategies 
Alignment 2
Quality of country systems 3
Alignment: aid is on budget
Harmonisation 4
Coordinated support for capacity development 5
Use of country systems 6
Parallel PIUs 7
In-year predictability of aid 8
Aid is untied 9
Programme-based approaches 10
Joint missions & analytic work
Managing for Results 11
Results-oriented frameworks
Mutual Accountability 12
Reviews of mutual performance
Paris Declaration Indicators to Monitor Commitments

7. Implementing the Paris Agenda
The “good news” – change process is underway with progress since Paris
Need to do more to deepen implementation and broaden impact
Road to Accra – opportunity to address the next generation of issues

8. Core Issues identified by Partner Countries
In the lead-up to Accra, many discussions have been held, and have identified a number of issues to address in Accra, including:
Strengthening capacities (including aid management capacity)
Improving predictability of aid
Untying aid
Addressing questions on conditionality
Achieving better complementarity and division of labor by donors
Improving incentives in donor agencies for effective aid
Addressing cross-cutting and other key development issues, including on health, education, human rights, environment, gender, poverty, governance, anti-corruption, accountability

9. The Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
The Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, a partnership of partner countries and donors hosted by the OECD/DAC, is planning HLF3
The Working Party was set up in 2003
It comprises:
All DAC bilateral donors + European Commission (23 members)
23 partner countries
Most multilaterals: UNDP, IMF, World Bank, Regional Development Banks, Vertical funds, SPA
Two previous High-Level Fora have been held – in Rome (2003) and in Paris (2005), where the Paris Declaration was endorsed

10. Accra Agenda for Action
Structure of Accra HLF 3
Accra Agenda for Action
HLF-3 Progress Report
2008 Monitoring Survey
Evaluation Reports (ph 1)

11. List of Roundtables RT 1 : Country ownership
RT 2 : Alignment: country systems, predictability
RT 3 : Harmonisation – complementarity (division of labor)
RT 4 : Managing for results & development impact
RT 5 : Mutual accountability
RT 6 : Civil society & aid effectiveness
RT 7 : Aid effectiveness in fragile situations and post-conflict
RT 8 : Sector experiences (health, education, infrastructure, etc.)
RT 9 : Implications for aid effectiveness of new aid architecture

12. Partner Country Co-chair
Roundtable Co-Chairs
Donor Co-chair
Partner Country Co-chair
w/ support from
1 Ownership
Switzerland
Colombia
UNDP, France, Japan
2 Alignment
European Commission
Bangladesh
Tanzania, UK
3 Harmonisation
Germany
Uganda US
4 Results and Impact
JV-Managing for Development Results
South Africa
UNDP, UK, US
5 Mutual Accountability
Ireland
Tanzania
US, UK
6 Civil Society
Canada
Nepal
Advisory Group on Civil Society
7 Fragility
France + AfDB
DR Congo
Netherlands, Norway, US
8 Sector applicability
Sweden
Honduras
GTFAM, WHO, World Bank, Japan
9 Aid architecture
World Bank
Ghana
GPLG, Japan, UNDP

13. The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA)
Present plans call for the outcome document (or communiqué) of HLF3 to be called the Accra Agenda for Action. It should:
Supplement (not substitute for) the Paris Declaration
Reflect the ownership and leadership of Partner Countries
Identify key actions to help achieve better aid effectiveness
Respond to potential emerging issues
Inform how the international community might deal with current global priorities – e.g., the food price crisis, climate change, etc
Engage new participants in the process – e.g., new donors

14. AAA Preparation Timeline OUTPUTS FOR DISCUSSION
RELEASE
DISCUSSION
Annotated Outline of the Action Agenda (AAA)
19 Jan. 2008
Steering Committee (SC) Meeting — 30 Jan.
Zero Draft of the AAA
25 Feb. 2008
SC Meeting — March 3 and 17
DAC Meeting — 5 March
First Draft of the AAA
18 March
WP EFF — 2-3 April
“Menu of Options” Note
28 April 2008
Regional Preparatory Events, etc.
Series of consultations
April-June
Regional Preparatory Events
DAC HLM / Spring meetings (April / May)
RDB annual assemblies (May)
Next Draft of the AAA
mid June
WP EFF Meeting — 9-10 July 2008
UN DCF July 2008
Final consideration of the AAA
September
High-Level Forum, Accra, 2-4 September 2008

15. The Preparation Process
Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF):
Two plenary meetings before Accra:
2-3 April 2008
9-10 July 2008 to guide final preparations
HLF3 Steering Committee: frequent meetings to advise on the organization and content of the forum
“Consensus Group” to negotiate AAA
Consultations with CSOs: Advisory Group on Civil Society has held regional, national and international consultations throughout 2007 and 2008, and held discussions with WP-EFF

16. The Preparation Process (continued)
Meetings
DAC meetings and HLM
Ghana’s partner country preparation initiative (KY Amoako)
Use of regional and international events:
UNECA-AUC meeting, Addis, 31 March, 2008
Washington Spring meetings, April, 2008
Regional Development Banks annual assemblies: e.g. AfDB Maputo, May, 2008
Work streams and processes
Global Learning group, health as a “tracer” sector
Work with non-DAC providers of Development Assistance
Task Team on complementarity/DoL
Fragile States
Various SPA working groups
Other

17. The Preparation Process: Regional Preparatory Events
Lead Regional Development Bank
(Sub) Region
Date
Venue
Asian Development Bank & Pacific Island Forum
Pacific
4-7 April (completed)
Fiji
Asian Development Bank & United Nations Development Programme
Southeast Asia
21-22 April
Bangkok, Thailand
South Asia
5-6 May
Central & West Asia
8-9 May
African Development Bank
Africa
28-30 April
Kigali, Rwanda
Inter American Development Bank
Latin America & Caribbean
5-6 June
Santa Marta, Colombia
Islamic Development Bank
Middle East
1-2 June (to be confirmed)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

18. Timeline to Accra (summary)
WORKING PARTY
CSOS
REGIONAL PREPARATORY EVENTS
PROGRESS REPORTS
ACCRA AGENDA FOR ACTION
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUG
SEPT
2008 SURVEY
International survey launched on 2 January
30-40 countries assess progress at country level
Countries report data on indicators and key messages for analysis
Survey completed by 31 March 2008
OTTAWA (3-6 FEBRUARY)
International multi-stakeholder meeting on CSOs and aid effectiveness
AAA FIRST DRAFT
2-3 APRIL
Review plans for HLF3 incl. Roundtable Structure and preparations
Discuss first elements of the Accra Agenda for Action
REGIONAL PREPARATORY EVENTS
Organized by Regional Development Banks, UNDP and other interested parties
Workshops or series of smaller consultations
Comments on the AAA
Identifying key messages and actions for ACCRA
Timeline to Accra (summary)
9-11 JULY
Review revised draft of the AAA
Take stock of regional preparatory events
Review preparations for HLF3
ACCRA PROGRESS REPORTS
Overview of the 2008 Survey is finalized
Accra Progress Report is finalized
AAA FULL DRAFT
ACCRA (31 AUG – 1 SEP)
CSOs are planning a special forum in Accra, ahead of the HLF3
AAA FINAL DRAFT

19. Thank You for Your Attention