Tackling rural poverty, together

Throughout its first year of events, participants in the OECD Global Forum on Development called for a more thorough discussion on the issue of ownership. There is an overwhelming consensus that a development finance system not owned by developing countries will be ineffective in achieving its desired outcomes of poverty reduction or sustainable economic growth.
In its second year (2007-2008), the Forum will thus grapple with various dimensions of Ownership in Practice. Discussions will be rooted in analytical work conducted at the field level, and will be supported by the strong participation of developing-country experts from government and civil society. The discussions and analytical work will feed into important ongoing policy processes, notably the preparations for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in Accra in September 2008. To get the ball rolling, this Workshop will examine two themes: “democratic ownership” and “national leadership”. The former implies a closer look at the role of non-state actors in rendering the development finance system more effective. The latter revolves around developing-country administrations and their challenges in tracking and managing a complex set of development finance flows.

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