International civil society work on the Aid Effectiveness agenda is carried out largely through the Better Aid Platform, and its coordinating body: the Better Aid Coordinating Group (previously known as the civil society International Steering Group).
The Better Aid Platform brings together CSOs that engage in development cooperation. The Platform enables a structured engagement of CSOs in policy dialogues seeking to deepen aid and development effectiveness. The ISG – as the coordinating group of the Better Aid Platform took the lead in organising the Civil Society Parallel Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Ghana.
The core members of this group are: Action Aid International (AAI), AFRODAD, Alliance 2015, Arab NGOs Network for Development (ANND), Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Canada’s Coalition to End Global Poverty (CCIC), Civicus, Concord, Eurodad, The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Ghana Aid Effectiveness Forum, IBIS, IBON Foundation, Interaction, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Reality of Aid (RoA), Social Watch, UK Aid Network (UKAN), and Women in Development Europe (WIDE) .
The overarching goal of the BACG is:
“Monitoring and influencing the implementation of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) (with specific focus on issues in democratic ownership), while broadening the agenda from the AAA towards development effectiveness and addressing policies for development effectiveness within proposals for reform of international aid architecture.”
The BACG will meet this goal by focusing on 3 key areas of work: policy development; advocacy; and communication, mobilisation and outreach. These areas of work will be carried out under two main themes: democratic ownership and accountability within the development effectiveness framework; and development effectiveness and the road to HLF4.
Key official lobby targets of the BACG include:
OECD DAC working party on Aid Effectiveness
Executive Committee
Working Party Clusters (to take forward work on key aspects of the AAA)
o Ownership and Accountability
o Country systems
o Responsible and transparent aid
o Monitoring and implementation
Joint ventures (existing streams of work on Paris elements in the OECD DAC)
Other OECD DAC groupings including: Povnet; Gendernet; and Govnet
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) (an international intergovernmental initiative on improving donor aid transparency signed by donors in Accra)
UN Development Cooperation Forum http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/2008dcf.shtml
Key activities: before 2011, the BACG plans to organise:
• four regional consultations in the preparation for the HLF4 in 2009/10
• one global assembly in early 2011
• a parallel forum around the HLF4
Internal organisation
The BACG is organised internally into five separate working groups:
• WG 1 Policy development
• WG 2 Communications
• WG 3 Research
• WG 4 Financing, fundraising and budget oversight
• WG 5 Outreach engagement among CSOs on the post-Accra agenda
CONCORD AidWatch is represented on the first of these working groups.
For more information on the Better Aid Coordinating group, visit www.betteraid.org or contact the AidWatch coordinator jasmine.burnley@concordeurope.org
CONCORD AidWatch and the Better Aid Coordinating Group
Several AidWatch members are currently active on the BACG (see list above), and in addition CONCORD AidWatch is represented specifically on the group, on the basis of its key role as a network of members working on aid. The Advocacy Group both liaises with and attends the meetings of the BACG (the last face to face meeting was held in February 2009 to decide on a future strategy and remit for the group).
It is important that CSO positioning and lobby work on aid effectiveness at the European level are consistent with that at the international level. We therefore work consistently with different members of the BACG to ensure that our positions are not in contradiction.
With the support of the European Union 
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