Julie Bishop address to Council 2010
ACFID Council 2010
What is ACFID Council?
The annual two-day ACFID Council meeting includes the annual general meeting and provides a forum to debate current aid and development issues, establish policy principles for ACFID and elect the executive committee and office bearers.Council includes a Chairs and CEOs' dinner, presentations and workshops, Members' Open Forum, the AGM, and a Council dinner. The ACFID Sir Ron Wilson Human Rights Award and the ACFID Outstanding Contribution to the Sector Award are presented at the Council dinner.
Each year keynote presentations and workshops relate to a topical theme. Past themes have included Global Challenges: Influencing the development agenda (2007), Climate Change: A changing climate (2008) and Women and children as the foundation of development (2009).
ACFID Council 2010
Voice and Choice: Promoting Accountability and Equity in Development
Council 2010 was held on 21 and 22 October and looked at two important trends in the world of aid and development:
- Governments are attempting to be more accountable to the poorest in societies by ensuring aid policies reduce inequality by targeting the poorest 20 per cent to make a difference in their lives. What is the international experience?
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Accountability by NGOs to the primary stakeholders they work with — the partners and communities in developing countries. This has been a major theme of ACFID's work in 2010, involving research and member workshops.
- Dr Gopakumar Thampi, Head of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, South Asia Region and the Global Partnership Fund on Social Accountability, Institute of Governance Studies, BRAC University, Dhaka.
- Adriano Campolina Soares, Regional Director for the Americas, ActionAid International (also head of ActionAid's Food & Hunger theme).
- Dr Barb Wigley, Programme & Membership Services Coordinator, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP).
- Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund: The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency.
Speeches at ACFID Council 2010
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs: The Importance of Aid Effectiveness
The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs: Policy priorities for aid and development assistance
