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AFRODAD
Regional Dialogue on "Post Conflict Liberian Debt, Aid and
Development"
African
Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
August 18, 2006
HARARE – The
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) is convening
an African regional dialogue on "Post Conflict Liberian
Debt, Aid and Development" in Monrovia, Liberia from 11
to 13 September, 2006. This dialogue is timed to precede an upcoming
international donors meeting to be held in Liberia and will be used
as a tool to raise awareness around the urgency of Liberia’s debt
crisis and to put pressure on the international community to step
up its support towards Liberia. The dialogue to be held will also
be used as a platform to link up and strengthen relationships between
Liberian and other African Economic and Social Justice Networks.
The meeting
will be attended by more than 60 participants from civil society
organizations across Africa, Europe, United States and high level
government, donor and private sector officials from Liberia.
Objectives
of the Dialogue
By
and large the dialogue will analyze the Liberian situation and recommend
concrete steps for the direction of political, economic and social
change that should be taken by both the Liberians and the international
community (the UN, the African Union international financial institutions
and donors). The particular areas of focus will be the role of and
ways in which all stakeholders can help foster alternatives in three
principal spheres:
- Debt Management:
How for instance, have the international community given Liberians
a chance to recover from decades of civil conflict and war? How
have they fostered new types and styles of dealing with post-conflict
societies that are heavily indebted, poor and without any form
of infrastructure? What mechanisms has the new government put
in place to ensure good and sound economic governance of development
assistance-transparency, accountability, public participation
and country ownership? What structural, legal and institutional
changes are necessary to bring Liberia back to life? How have,
for instance, donors and NGOs helped shape or reshape arrangements
for promoting human security, fostering participatory democracy,
for financing development, new interventions and strategies for
poverty reduction as well as provision of human development services.
- Aid and Development:
Is the international community doing enough to help Liberia rebuild
itself from the ashes of decades of civil war and conflict? What
can the next EU meeting on Liberia assist Liberia with? Is the
Government of Liberia and its development partners working together
to ensure ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results
and mutual accountability to be able to meet development targets?
Does the government of Liberia have the absorption capacity or
will it suffer the ‘Dutchman disease’ in face of increased aid?
- Post-conflict
security and reconstruction efforts: What lessons can be drawn
from Liberia’s efforts to rebuild itself after years of conflict.
How have different stakeholders triggered alternative processes
of social change and economic change?
Who can attend
and how will the dialogue proceed?
The
dialogue will combine keynote addresses and thematic panels. Participants
will come from academic, activist, policy, government and development
partners’ backgrounds. This will include Liberians working in this
area, government officials; representatives of the donor community,
international institutions, representatives of the African Union,
CSOs from Africa, especially West Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA.
Attendance will be limited to 60. Conference presentation papers
will be circulated.
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fact
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