Government representatives from more than 100 nations, heads of multilateral and bilateral development organizations and members of civil society met in Accra in September to further efforts begun in Paris in 2005 to make aid to developing countries more effective by giving those countries greater ownership in managing assistance from the developed world. Delegates at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness issued the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA), which declared that “developing country governments will take stronger leadership of their own development policies, and will engage with their parliaments and citizens in shaping those policies. Donors will support them by respecting countries’ priorities, investing in their human resources and institutions, making greater use of their systems to deliver aid, and increasing the predictability of aid flows.
