Since 2007, Alliance2015 has been actively and globally engaged in shaping the principles for more effective aid. Through country level research, lobbying in European countries, and by contributing to international civil society efforts around setting more ambitious targets for aid effectiveness, Alliance2015 has been playing an increasingly larger role in this context. After successfully contributing to achieving significant results at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008, Alliance members then focused on implementing the commitments from Accra in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.   

Among the most important commitments from the Accra agenda for Action (AAA) was the pledge of donors and recipient countries to engage with civil society when shaping national and sector level development policies. Alliance2015 follows up on this commitment in five countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Ghana, Cambodia, and Nicaragua.

In those five countries, Alliance2015 has been supporting partners to engage with governments and donors. In Tanzania, the focus is on the agricultural sector, where Alliance2015 works with civil society organizations (CSOs) so that they can demand stronger participation and accountability in preparing agricultural development policies. Partners monitor their governments and donors regarding other commitments from Accra as well such as transparency of aid, aid allocations and predictability of aid.

In Cambodia, Alliance2015 supports a Cambodian NGO network to organise tripartite consultations between donors, the government and civil society on the implementation of the AAA in the country. Following the Paris Principles (see info in the column to the left), these activities are organised in coordination with other national and international NGOs.

These national level activities contribute to and monitor the implementation of the AAA in the selected countries and will feed into Alliance2015 activities on the international level. Alliance2015 is a member of the international CSO coordination group, which coordinates the dialogue with donors and partner countries through the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness. This group is actively engaging in the international discussions on the implementation of the AAA and the preparations towards the next High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011 in Korea.

Within Alliance2015, we try to practise what we preach. As much as we demand improved effectiveness from donors and governments, we have also internally started a process of strengthening cooperation among the members at country level in order to synergize, coordinate activities and reduce costs. In May 2008, Alliance2015 adopted the Principles for Internal Aid Effectiveness in the Alliance2015. As individual organsiations and as an Alliance, we try to implement these principles.

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