Democratic ownership and mutual accountability
Madrid, Barcelona y Bilbao, Spain 17/06/2008 to 19/06/2008
Description
As part of the seminar series "Democratic Ownership and mutual accountability: new challenges for the relations between receiving and donor governments", which takes place between the 17th and 19th of June in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao, FRIDE will be holding conferences open to the public in the first two cities.
Through these FRIDE hopes to generate debate around the concept of aid effectiveness something which has emerged out of proposals for the forthcoming Accra High Level Forum. and which will center around aspects such as:
- Democratic ownership and downwards accountability of partner countries to citizens, and
- Changing aid relations and mechanisms for mutual accountability, power in the relation between donors and partner countries and political space for self-determination, as well as donors’ capacity to assess and influence these two dimensions.
This event is related to the FRIDE project on Harmonization and Democratisation.
Background documentation: (PDF)
-Challenges in Accra, opportunities in Spain and key literature( Spanish)
Program
June 17th:
18.00 Madrid (Sala Nueva, Círculo de Bellas Artes C/ Marqués de Casa Riera, 2)
In collaboration with CEALCI, Fundacion Carolina
Program: Madrid Conference (Spanish)
June 18th:
19.00 Barcelona (Sala Maragall, CIDOB, C/ Elisabets, 12)
In collaboration with CIDOB (Barcelona)
Program: Barcelona Conference (Spanish)
June19th :
19.00 Bilbao (ALBOAN, Arrupe Etxea C/Padre Lojendio,2)
In collaboration with HEGOA and ALBOAN
Porgram: Bilbao Conference (Spanish)
Collaborators
- Centro de Estudios para América Latina y la Cooperación Internacional (CeALCI) de la Fundación Carolina
- Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo (CIDOB)
- ALBOAN and Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional (HEGOA).
Participants
- Paolo de Renzio, research fellow ODI and Oxford University, has recently published on mutual accountability.
- Lucy Hayes, Policy Officer en EURODAD, has recently published a report on Aid and accountability under the Paris framework.
- Felix Zimmermann, Coordinator, Global Forum on development, OECD democratic ownership. Participates in the organization of the Accra roundtable on ownership and has recently organised a OECD seminar on democratic ownership at the Accra High level Forum (Speaker in Madrid and Barcelona)
Related publications
- Vietnam's laboratory on donor harmonisation: between effectiveness and democratisation
- Donor harmonization and democratisation: new challenges for the development agenda
- Donor harmonisation: between effectiveness and democratisation. Theoretical framework and methodology for country case studies
- Donor harmonisation and democratisation: are donors fit for politics?
