Programme events and workshops

ODI has produced a range of inputs of relevance to HLF-4, to inform debates and reflect on the challenges and opportunities for policy-makers and the development community. The Busan meeting follows previous conferences in Accra and Paris. These meetings delivered the Accra Agenda for Action and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. 

We are also producing short audio commentaries throughout the conference. 

Groundbreaking Overseas Development Institute research documents 24 examples of progress in developing countries across the globe. The Development Progress Stories’ research lens has identified 4 drivers of progress. The 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness being held in Busan offers a chance to strengthen and renew partnerships but which relationships matter most to donors and recipients and why?

This ODI and Publish What You Fund event will be launching Publish What You Fund's pilot Aid Transparency Index; a completely new approach to assessing the actual levels of information published by donors, ranking 58 aid agencies on the transparency of the aid they provide. Publish What You Fund will present its findings and methodology for its pilot Index; with contributions from representatives from donor agencies on the challenges they face in implementing aid transparency and from recipient countries on why aid transparency matters to them.

How is the Busan conference shaping up? What is the latest thinking on the outcome document? With only one month to go until the biggest aid conference in years, ODI hosts Brenda Killen, the head of Aid Effectiveness at the OECD and therefore at the heart of pulling the conference together. Brenda will present the third monitoring survey of the Paris Declaration for the first time in the UK. In discussion with Brenda will be a selection of major donors. Questions this event will seek to answer include: what are DFID and other donors hoping for from Busan and how do they expect it to change their ways of working, if at all? There will be time for questions and comments from the floor.

This APGOOD event will discuss Brazil’s emergence in international development against the backdrop of the world’s changing aid architecture and Brazil’s maturing democracy and explore the future prospects for Brazil’s cooperation agenda and its position in global affairs.