Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness
The Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness was the medium for a process led by civil society organizations (CSOs)between 2008 and 2012, to agree common principles and guidelines on CSO development effectiveness and bring the collective vision of organized people's groups into international development policy and practice. Origins The Open Forum was established as a temporary part of the "effectiveness movement" on international aid and development cooperation that started in the early 2000s. At first, discussions on aid effectiveness had mostly been led by aid donors and partner governments. But the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), which was agreed at the second of four High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness, recognised that CSOs played a significant role in aid effectiveness; CSOs were represented at its signing ceremony. CSOs were then mobilised to play a greater part at the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness to be held at Accra in 2008. This mobilisation partly arose from consultative meetings of an Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness (AG-CS) that had been formed by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. Open Forum was born at a three-day meeting of over 70 CSOs in Paris in June 2008. Its purpose