Ekvilib

International conference "Development cooperation - quo vadis?"

On 26th March 2010 SLOGA, Platform for development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and Ekvilib Institute organised an international conference entitled “Development cooperation – quo vadis?”. The conference highlighted pressing issues and dilemmas related to the international development cooperation and current aid architecture. The questions raised focused on aid effectiveness, timely achievement of development goals, existence of new donors and their approaches, the role of civil society, etc.

The conference brought together representatives of NGOs, policy makers and general public.

The conference took place on March 26^th 2010 in the Center of Excellence in Finance (Cankarjeva 18, Ljubljana) from 9.00 to 17.00.

Program and some of lecturers' contributions can be found in the attachments bellow.

Programme

Javier Pereira

Franz Berger

Maja Bučar (in Slovene only)

Eva Pliberšek (in Slovene only)

Urška Zrinski (in Slovene only)

Robin Dewa (in Slovene only)

Jana Lampe (in Slovene only)

Boštjan Jerman (in Slovene only)

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International seminar on monitoring and reporting on ODA

Ekvilib Institute, in collaboration with Sloga, CONCORD and TRIALOG, organized an international seminar on monitoring and reporting on official development assistance. Seminar was held on 19 and 20 November 2007 in Ljubljana.

22 representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations from 6 countries (Slovenia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia and the Czech Republic) attended the seminar, among them also the French development platform and a representative of OECD DAC. Three platforms also sent presentations on their reporting on official development assistance (Hungary, Poland and Malta).

Key themes of the seminar were: what is official development assistance (ODA) and what are the current rules and criteria and the associated formal system of OECD; case studies from new Member States were presented, as well as critics, pressures and challenges associated with the ODA.