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Welcome & Registration of Participants |
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| 12.00 - 13.30 |
Session I
The growing complexity of aid: What role for Europe?
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Recent years have seen a growing proliferation of aid instruments and a dramatic widening of the range of actors. These new players bring much-welcomed additional resources, but also make the coordination of aid efforts more difficult. For the EU, reforms of its once chaotic and under-performing aid structures have been widely welcomed, but these affect only part of the broader aid picture. What strategies can help tie together the efforts of the different players? And given that European governments account for 55% of ODA worldwide, what role should the EU play in improving the international aid-giving architecture?
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| Introductory discussants: |
| Yves Charpentier, Advisor to the Director General of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) |
| Joakim Stymne, State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Sweden |
| Ousmane Sy, Director of the Centre of the Political and Institutional Expertise in Africa (CEPIA) and Former Malian Minister for Territorial Administration and Local Communities |
| Bernard Petit, European Commission Deputy Director General for Development and Relations with ACP States |
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| 13.30 - 14.30 |
Networking lunch |
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| 14.30 - 16.00 |
Session II
Can developing country governments truly be in the driving seat?
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The vast majority of development aid specialists agree that recipient countries should be in control of their own development efforts. Yet there is also widespread agreement that the principal aid players do not yet cooperate adequately, thus driving up costs, creating wastage and duplication of effort and adding to the coordination challenges facing developing country governments. In today’s complex aid architecture, what has been the country impact so far of the EU’s attempts to harmonise efforts and implement its “European consensus on development”? How can the broader aid community best help developing countries to take hold of the reins?
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| Introductory discussants: |
| Michelle Ndiaye, Chief Executive Officer of the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC), South Africa |
| Akihiko Nishio, Director, Resource Mobilisation Department, Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships (CFP), the World Bank |
| Daniel Ottolenghi, Associate Director and Chief Development Economist of the European Investment Bank (EIB) |
| Michael Wehinger, First Vice President Strategy, KfW Development Bank, Germany |
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| 16.00 |
End of the roundtable |
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| Moderator: Giles Merritt, Secretary General of Friends of Europe and Gie Goris, Editor-in-Chief of MO |
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