Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

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The Fourth High Level Forum on aid effectiveness (HLF4) (Engl. = Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness ) took place from 29 November 2011 to 1 December 2011 in Busan ( South Korea instead). The conference brought together political leaders, government officials, members of parliament, and representatives from civil society organizations and the private sector from developing and donor countries.

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria , the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame , the President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta , and the Queen of Jordan were involved Rania Al Abdullah , the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi , the Vice-President of Burundi Gervais Rufvikiri , the Vice-President of the Comoros Mohamed Ali Soilih , government representatives from 160 countries and representatives of international organizations, parliaments and civil society organizations as well as academics from over 70 countries. A total of around 3,500 participants took part in the largest event in HLF history.

At this meeting the progress of the Paris Declaration was examined, ways to better help were discussed and after three days the Busan Declaration ( Partnership of Busan for Effective Development Cooperation ), which sets out the common principles and action plans for effective world development, was approved .

On December 1, 2011, Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan and OECD Secretary - General Angel Gurria officially announced the adoption of the Busan Declaration, which calls for a transition of the international aid policy paradigm from the current focus of aid effectiveness to development effectiveness .

Principles
  • Own responsibility for development priority on the part of the developing countries
  • Result orientation
  • Comprehensive development partnership
  • Transparency and responsibility
Four action plans
  1. Expansion of personal responsibility for development policy and the development process
  2. More efforts to achieve realistic and sustainable results
  3. More help for South-South and tripartite collaborations and horizontal partnerships based on the status of the country
  4. Expansion of development for developing countries and assistance with development cooperation


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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OECD