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Friday, 26 June 2015 00:00
No CSO Effectiveness without Istanbul Principles
No CSO effectiveness without Istanbul principles Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have over the years become channels for social solidarity, service and mobilization to enable people to better claim all their rights to improve conditions of life and to build a democratic society. Through CSOs, people actively express their ‘citizenship’ in…
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Tuesday, 04 November 2014 00:00
A blog For Busan Global Partnership Workshop - Opportunities and Challenges
A blog For Busan Global Partnership Workshop - Opportunities and ChallengesBy Vitalice Meja – Reality of Aid Africa As we converge in Seoul Korea next week to review progress since Busan, I am left with a bitter sweet taste in my mouth. Bitter because we are yet to firmly locate…
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Monday, 25 August 2014 00:00
Insights from the Development Cooperation Forum Event 10-11 July 2014, New York
Interview with Vitalice Meja on the Future of development Cooperation in the post-2015 eraBringing the future of the development cooperation to post 2015 era 1.What is the future of development cooperation particularly in Africa?Development cooperation scope is shifting focus from the north-south approach to a more south-south approach.This cooperation will…
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Friday, 11 July 2014 00:00
Private Sector and Development
The private sector received recognition in the Paris Declaration (2005), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) and the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (2011) as an active actor in the development discourse, as a source of financial flows, and as a benefactor from an enabling environment for investments at…
Friday, 11 July 2014 00:00
Research Project: Towards A Post 2015 Agenda
As the world prepares for the final review of the achievement of the millennium development goals in 2015, assessing how the global partnership has facilitated the achievement or lack of achievement of the MDGs will be crucial. RoA Africa would like to focus specifically on the quality and quantity of…
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Wednesday, 09 July 2014 00:00
Data Revolution – The fulcrum for delivering the development effectiveness agenda
By Vitalice Meja, Reality of Aid Africa Network Real access to and use of data is crucial for development co-operation, and for the billions of people whom this co-operation aims to benefit. For development co-operation stakeholders, real access to data allows for transparency as well as better planning, targeting and…
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Tuesday, 01 July 2014 00:00
Which Way for Africa on Development Effectiveness
Foreign aid is often regarded as being too much, or wasted on corrupt recipient governments despite any good intentions from donor countries and other development actors. In reality, both the quantity and quality of aid have been poor and donor nations have not really been held to account. Development aid…
Tuesday, 01 July 2014 00:00
An African CSO perspectives on South - South Co-operation - a presentation
The framework of South-South cooperation goes beyond the concept of aid/ODA as defined by traditional donors, it includes various types of economic and political cooperation, such as aid, loans, export credits, trade and investments, some of it equivalent to the ODA concept, and others are not. It is therefore difficult…
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