Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Monitor Africa policy: Europe on the wrong track World Investment Report 2005 Aid pledges for Africa to be monitored Information summit to discuss control of internet UN convention against corruption Disappointing OECD guidelines Bertelsmann Foundation rates progress A new definition for the wealth of nations Trade: disruptive chicken wings IMF and World Bank endorse debt relief Development and security: more cooperation needed 11/2005		Aid pledges for Africa to be monitored The Africa Partnership Forum, a network of the most important donor countries, the African Union and multilateral organisations such as the UN, World Bank and World Trade Organisation, will monitor whether the rich countries will live up to their pledges of increasing development assistance to Africa. At the G8 summit in Gleneagles in summer as well as at the UN World Summit in New York in mid-September, the donors promised to double their aid to Africa from 25 billion dollars now to 50 billion by 2010. The Forum also wants to check whether the African countries implement the political and economic reforms they promised. As its first step, the Forum wants to come up with an overview of the commitments by both donor and recipient countries. A first annual monitoring report is to be published in October 2006. An OECD unit based in Paris will support the Forum. The Africa Partnership Forum was established at the G8 summit in Evian in 2003. (ell)