Minister Oda Concludes Successful Trip to the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
(firmenpresse) - BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/01/11 -- The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, concluded a successful trip to the Fourth High-Level Forum (HLF-4) on Aid Effectiveness, where she reinforced Canada's priority of putting long-term sustainable results at the centre of its development efforts.
"I was proud to demonstrate that Canada has taken bold steps to make its aid more effective at this important international forum," said Minister Oda. "Canada's aid effectiveness actions of focusing on results, value for money and sustainability of our international assistance are now part of the global discussion."
At the forum, Minister Oda highlighted Canada's concrete actions to strengthen accountability for results by all stakeholders at the country and sector level. She cited Canada's G8 Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the UN Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, co-chaired by Prime Minister Harper, as setting a new global standard for ensuring country ownership and accountability for results in development.
At the conference, Minister Oda announced that CIDA has joined the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to improve the public availability and accessibility of information on aid, further underscoring Canada's commitment to transparency. The IATI is consistent with the Government of Canada's initiative under which CIDA is taking important steps to give Canadians improved access to open data and open information. Through CIDA's , the Agency already publishes statistical and project-level information on international aid activities in searchable machine-readable formats and project-level information for CIDA's countries of focus through web-based geomapping.
Minister Oda also detailed Canada's long-term commitment to increasing food security. In particular, she outlined the importance of increasing agricultural production and productivity, providing quality nutritional food, and recognizing the role of empowering women to increase food security and sustainable economic growth. She noted that Canada was the first country to honour its G8 L'Aquila commitment by fully disbursing its $1.18 billion L'Aquila package.
During the forum, Minister Oda and Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd signed an agreement to strengthen the Canada-Australia partnership on international cooperation. She also met Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Sung-Hwan and signed a letter of intent to strengthen the two countries' cooperation in international development.
"We are forging cooperation partnerships with those who share Canada's values and are committed to effective development," said Minister Oda.
In endorsing the Busan Outcome Document, Minister Oda welcomed the commitment from all development partners to adopt the shared principles of country ownership, results, transparency, and accountability that underpin the new Global Partnership for Effective Development.
Minister Oda concluded her trip stating, "It is important for Canada and all donors that we leave this conference with a renewed commitment to focus on aid accountability, value-for-dollars, and real results."
Backgrounder
Canada at Busan - Canada's Aid Effectiveness Agenda
Results - for the world's poor
Accountability - for resources and results
Canada is...
Looking ahead...
Transparency - the key to accountability
Meeting our commitment to aid transparency, Canada has:
Effectiveness - making it real
To deliver aid more effectively, Canada:
Innovation - to catalyze change and maximize impact
For more information on Canada's Aid Effectiveness Agenda visit .
Contacts:
Justin Broekema
Press Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation
819-953-6238
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Media Relations Office
819-953-6534
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Datum: 01.12.2011 - 12:26 Uhr
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