“Democratic appropriation and mutual responsibilisation: New challenges for relations between partner governments and donors" * will be held in Madrid (17 June), Barcelona (18 June) and Bilbao (19 June), with the aim of generating a debate around the concept of aid effectiveness, which arises from the proposal for staging the next High Level Forum in Accra, based on aspects such as:

- “Democratic appropriation” and the submission of the accounts of partner governments to their citizens.

- The changing relations between donors and partners and the mechanisms for mutual responsibilisation, the exercising of power and the political space for self-determination, and the ability of donors to evaluate and influence these two dimensions.

*This activity takes place within the FRIDE project on Armonización Harmonization and Democratisation.

Participants:

• Paolo di Renzio, Researcher at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and at Oxford University, and who recently published a study on mutual responsibilisation. • Lucy Hayes, Policy Coordinator for the European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), and who has just published a report on aid and responsibilisation under the framework of the Paris Declaration. • Felix Zimmermann, Coordinator of the Global Forum on Development of the OCDE, one of the organisers of the round table on democratic appropriation (the speaker in Madrid and Barcelona)