South Centre Analytical Note - May 2008

This South Centre Analytical Note looks at the 18 March 2008 first consultative draft text of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) that is expected to be adopted by participants at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, in September 2008. It argues that the text of the AAA sets the participation of developing countries within the framework and the norms set by developed country donors and will therefore end up strengthening the OECD-DAC framework and its associated governance structure, and does not suggest any inherent change in the governance structure of the international aid system which continues to be donor-driven and reflects donors’ economic and policy agendas.

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