What will success at Busan look like for conflict-affected countries?
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Download document The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid takes place at Busan in South Korea, 29th November – 1st December. Two thousand representatives of governments, the UN, the World Bank, and other multi-lateral organisations and NGOs will meet to debate how aid can be delivered more effectively. Previous meetings in the series were in Rome (2003), Paris (2005) and Accra (2008).
New thinking about aid and development in conflict-affected countries
No conflict affected country has yet achieved a single Millennium Development Goal (MDG). This failure has stimulated much reflection over the past few years, for example:
The World Development Report 2011 outlined a new paradigm for development assistance in conflict-affected countries – where a total of 1.5 billion people live
A renewed focus on the need to show concrete results will help citizens in donor and recipient countries to hold their governments more accountable for aid effectiveness
An increased recognition that development is about more than economic growth, health and education; it is also about how people are governed, the relationship between people and state, access to justice, and whether people are kept safe from danger
Emerging economies like China, Brazil and India are providing increasing slices of the aid pie, bringing different approaches that are not part of the aid orthodoxy
Some aid is being used in creative ways, in line with the new thinking.
The way ahead is unclear: we’ve learned enough to know how little we know