Monday 3 May 2010

AidWatch goes to Warsaw

As part of its 2010 capacity development activities, members of the “Concord AidWatch working group” organised a report-writing workshop at the end of February 2010 in Warsaw, to guide participants through the process of gathering national aid data and analysing it, ready for the annual AidWatch report in May.

AidWatch coordinator Alessandro Bozzini and AidWatch report writer Javier Pereira took participants through the general context for aid this year before introducing the report and methodology and going on to cover the key aid quality issues that the report will cover, such as democratic ownership. Other aid quality issues to be included in this year’s report are climate, fragmentation, poverty focus, transparency, gender, securitisation and migration.

Immediately before the workshop, which was attended by 12 participants representing 7new member states, 3 old member states and one network, there was an additional session for Polish participants, to see how the platform could step up its engagement in AidWatch. As a result, the AidWatch advocacy group has a new Polish member.

The workshop was well received and provided the organisers with valuable feedback on what should be included in this year’s report. TRIALOG is proud to have supported its preparation.

Information provided by Rebecca Steel-Jasińska, TRIALOG

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