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Article: Accra Action Agenda Finalized: a Realistically Ambitious Development Agenda.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 16, 2008
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Late on the final day of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, delegations from more than 100 countries and multilateral organizations came to final resolution on a new development agenda to guide aid implementation over the next two years. The United States delegation succeeded in inserting into the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) several concrete actions to significantly advance the implementation of the Paris Declaration so that partner developing countries would assume more ownership, accountability and partnership with U.S. foreign assistance (see also U.S. Agency for International Development).
Henrietta Fore, the U.S. delegation leader (and Director of ...