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Africa after the Africa Commission: What priorities for the G8?

 

A high level policy forum brought together senior DFID and NGO staff, MPs, private sector representatives, Africanists, development academics, and key journalists for high-level discussions on the future of Africa in the run-up to the G8 meeting in Germany (6-8 June). The Forum was held in London on May 2nd, 2007.

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Tuesday 1 May
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    Background documents

    Stakeholder consultations
    An e-consultation about progress in Africa since the Commission for Africa in 2005, about the lasting impact and continuing relevance of the Commission, and about their priorities for the 2007 G8.
    Results

    Gleneagles Implementation Plan for Africa March 2007 Update. PDF>

    Commonwealth Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Health Workers.
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    Aid effectiveness and absorptive capacity: Which way aid reform and accountability?

    The Macroeconomics of Doubling Aid to Africa and the Centrality of the Supply Side Tony Killick and Mick Foster, Development Policy Review vol 25 no. 2, March 2007. more>

    Paved with good intentions? The role of aid in reaching the Millennium Development goals by Paolo de Renzio, African Affairs Briefing, November 2006. PDF>

    What would Doubling Aid do for Macroeconomic Management in Africa? by Mick Foster and Tony Killick, April 2006. PDF>

    Macroeconomic challenges of scaling up Aid to Africa: A Checklist for Practitioners by Sanjeev Gupta, Robert Powell, and Yongzheng Yang, International Monetary Fund, 2006. PDF>

    Pity the Finance Minister by Peter S. Heller, IMF Working Paper, September 2005. PDF>

    Scaling up versus Absorptive Capacity: Challenges and Opportunities for Reaching the MDGs in Africa by Paolo de Renzio, ODI Briefing Paper, May 2005. PDF>

    Doubling aid will only work if we double deployment efforts by Paolo de Renzio, 10 January, 2005. more>

    ICTs and Africa: Enterprise, innovations and the G8

    ICTs and the MDGs: On the Wrong Track? by Richard Heeks, eAfrica Briefing 5, 2007, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester. More>

    Foundations of ICTs in Development: Pushing and Pulling by Richard Heeks, eAfrica Briefing 4, 2007, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester. More>

    Overestimating the Global Digital Divide by Richard Heeks, eAfrica Briefing 3, 2007, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester. More>

    Social Outsourcing of IT Services by Richard Heeks, eAfrica Briefing 2, 2007, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester. More>

    Offshoring to Africa by Richard Heeks, eAfrica Briefing 1, 2007, Development Informatics Group, University of Manchester. More>

    Voice in international institutions

    Bridging the democratic deficit: Double majority decision making and the IMF by Peter Chowla, Jeffrey Oatham and Claire Wren, One World Trust and Bretton Woods Project, February 2007. PDF>

    Reforming the international aid architecture: Options and ways forward by Simon Burall and Simon Maxwell with Alina Rocha Menocal, ODI Working Paper, October 2006. PDF>

    IMF reform: What happens next? by Lauren Phillips, ODI Opinion, September 2006. PDF>

    Climate change: An opportunity for Africa?

    KEY8 FOR G8
    Eight Tyndall Centre discoveries for changing the landscape of climate policy, July 2005 (1MB). PDF>

    Combating corruption in Africa: What can donors do?

    The Creeping Politicisation of the World Bank: The Case of Corruption by Heather Marquette, International Development Department, University of Birmingham in Political Studies 2004 VOL 52, 413–430. PDF>

    Getting to Grips with Politics: Political Analysis at the World Bank and DFID by Heather Marquette, International Development Department, University of Birmingham and Zoë Scott, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, University of Birmingham. PDF>

    Whither Morality? Disciplinary Secularism in the Political Economy of Corruption in Developing Countries by Heather Marquette, International Development Department, University of Birmingham and Gurharpal Singh Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. PDF>