Parallel session
Parallel 1.1 | Promoting Collective Action in a "Post-aid Effectiveness" World

Parallel 1.1 | Promoting Collective Action in a "Post-aid Effectiveness" World

More than a decade has passed since the Busan High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness convened over 3000 participants – including heads of state, foreign ministers and the then UN Secretary General – to discuss the way forward for strenghtening the collective effectiveness of international cooperation. While the development effectiveness principles adopted at the meeting emerged from decades of evidence on what works and does not work in international cooperation, today's global context and international development framework bears little resemblance to the situation back in 2011.

Specifically, today's international cooperation system pursues a universal sustainable development agenda that features the entire world as a sustainable development construction sire, and has continued to attract new approaches, priorities and actors. Specifically, today's global development agenda acknowleges the limit of public funding, seeks to actively promote private investment, and also recognises the need for non-financial actions in terms of the policy preferences collectively and individually pursued by nation states. Crucially too, geopolitical competition has been on the increase during the last ten years, and today's cooperation providers – including the European Union – place considerable emphasis on the need for visibility and recognition of their actions.

This panel will provide an opportunity to take stock of these changes in terms of new actors, approaches and initiatives seeking to strengthen development effectiveness, so as to discuss the current state of play and inform future research inquiry on development effectiveness.