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CGD / POLIS Seminar - Prof Stephen Brown on aid effectiveness

Category
Seminar
Date
Date
Monday 26 February 2018, 16:00 - 167:30
Location
Social Sciences Building
Category

Centre for Global Development / POLIS Research Seminar

“Applying the Aid Effectiveness Principles: Experiences from Mali, Ghana and Ethiopia”

Prof. Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa

Abstract

In 2005, foreign aid donors and recipients formally endorsed a few basic but far-reaching principles that had the potential to revolutionize global development cooperation. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness – with its emphasis on putting recipients in the proverbial driver’s seat, donors aligning their aid with recipients’ national development strategies and harmonizing among themselves – promised to transform the way donors and recipients worked together, especially how they designed and implemented aid, in the interest of greater effectiveness. Using the cases of Mali, Ghana and Ethiopia, I address the following questions: To what extent have the Paris Principles been applied? What explains this degree of commitment? What has been the effect on the donor-recipient relationship? What do these findings suggest regarding the future of the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

Stephen Brown is a professor of political science at the University of Ottawa and currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Advanced Studies. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of the policies and practices of Northern countries and other international

For further information, please contact Dr. Simon Lightfoot s.j.lightfoot@leeds.ac.uk