Event: Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States

Dec 15, 2011 

Post-Busan Debrief on Aid Effectivess in Conflict-Affected Regions

U.S. government and civil society representatives who participated in the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Republic of Korea Nov 29 - Dec 1 offered analysis of the major outcomes of the historic forum and what it means for US-sponsored aid mechanisms and the larger discussion of development effectiveness, especially in conflict-affected and fragile states.

 3P initiated collaboration with the Alliance forPeacebuilding, the Woodrow Wilson Center, USAID, InterAction, and CDA Collaborative Learning Projects to host a post-Busan de-briefing event on Dec 15th. 

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From left: South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ibrahim Rasool,3P Program Manager John Filson, and World Vision Senior Policy Advisor Randy Tift

 Leaders of the official USG delegation to Busan and several CSO participants in Busan provided analysis of the historic forum and its implications for the way USAID and other donors approach international development cooperation. The second of two panels focused on the effectiveness questions in conflict-affected and fragile states, such as G7+ countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa where the lack of effective development is a major obstacle to human security. Most of the 19 G7+ countries have not yet reached a single Millennium Development Goal, and it was the sense of both U.S. officials and CSO representatives that the US must do more to foster genuine improvement.

Steve Pierce, Senior Advisor, Office of Donor Engagement,
 Bureau for Policy, Planning  and Learning, USAID