AGENDA ON AID EFFICIENCY AND CIVIL SOCIETY. CHALLENGES AND OPORTUNITIES[editar]

Following the “Social Change Agenda” in the 90`s and the emergent “new poverty agenda” from the beginning of 2000 (Maxwell, 2003), the donors community is making a great effort in order to achieve the “efficiency in the development aid”. The Paris Statement and the work realized in the OECD-DAC and EU are the highest representation of this tendency.

The new “Aid Efficiency Agenda” can be understood in two different ways. In one hand as a management approach guided by the donor in a search of more value in aid investments. In the other hand as a solid tool to, in fact, bear in mind a wider view of development and as a new redefinition, totally different from the traditional donor-receptor relationship. Some “opportunity windows” can be identified to get a deep change in this new context, proposing a certain challenge to the traditional role of NGDO’s.

In this article, backgrounds, underlying approaches to efficiency agenda, and the challenges and opportunities to civil society that it shows are discussed.