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Development Aid Policies
Written by Jean-Marie Le Breton
This seminar examined past experience in French and British development policies and tried to identify the most successful options. Held in Paris and chaired by Michel Camdessus and Sir Richard Jolly, it brought together senior development policy advisors from the two governments and from NGOs, politicians, academics and journalists. Among the speakers were Richard Dowden, Claude Blanchemaison, James Oporia-Ekwaro and Tony Colman MP. The seminar addressed the following questions:- How much is allocated in each country for aid? How do we achieve the Millenium Development Goals?
- Is aid targeting the right categories of population and the right priorities (rural communities, water, education, health, etc.)?
- Should we not encourage greater involvement of civil society, with the help of the NGOs?
- How can the IFF (International Finance facility) contribute to the alleviation of poverty?
- We should make better use of existing resources (UN and EU) and we should improve Franco-British collaboration for the distribution of aid in the context of the EU.
- The importance of NEPAD was highlighted and it should be given a high priority, but the success of Nepad depends on political stability in the beneficiary states and on working with the markets.
- Research in the universities of the developing world is important and should be encouraged.
- Aid from France and Britain must reach 0.7% of GDP by 2012.
- The IFF should help to create partnerships with the private sector.
Number of pages/format: B5 16pp
Published: April 2004
ISBN: 0 9546952 0 8