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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness: A unique exercise in mutual accountability
Growing global attention is focused on the challenge of accelerating progress towards the MDGs and the need for strengthened monitoring and mutual accountability arrangements in the international system. Initiated in 2003 at the request of African leaders, the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness (MRDE) is a unique consultation mechanism between African leaders and policymakers and their OECD counterparts to promote dialogue, track commitment delivery, highlight good practice and suggest go-forward priorities. The Mutual Review process goes beyond reporting on progress against commitments it will also have a bearing on the shape of the international development calendar in 2009.
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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness: Promise & Performance
The 2009 version of the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness Report, a follow-on to the first edition published in 2005, has been developed jointly by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the OECD. The Report is organised around the following themes:
- Sustainable economic growth, including trade, agriculture, infrastructure, private sector development, climate change;
- Human development, including education, health and gender;
- Governance, focusing on political and economic governance and peace and security, and;
- Development finance which includes subsections on domestic revenue mobilisation, aid, foreign direct investment and other private financial flows, and debt relief .... (more)
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11th Africa Partnership Forum, Addis Ababa, 17-18 November 2008
Africa, G8 and OECD identify actions needed to keep Africa on growth track despite global downturn
The 11th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum took place in Addis Ababa from 17-18 November 2008, hosted by the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. It brought together over 100 high-level representatives from Africa, G8 and OECD countries as well as from multilateral and African institutions to discuss key issues for Africa’s development and to highlight priorities for progress. Topics on the agenda included:
- Emerging Governance Issues in the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Process
- Development Finance, which looks at domestic revenue mobilization/ODA flows/debt and other financial flows -- with a special focus on the potential impacts of the financial crisis on Africa and strategies for addressing related challenges.
- Carbon Finance in Africa, which will examine how Africa can increase its participation in the carbon market
- An update of the AU/NEPAD African Action Plan
Draft programme Provisional List of Documents Documents/Reports
Carbon Finance in Africa - Policy Paper News Release Co-chairs' Summary
For more information, contact apf.contact@oecd.org
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