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This paper is a guide for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) which addresses the aid effectiveness agenda, within the broader context of development. Firstly, many of the basic/key development and aid issues are introduced, such as:

• What is the right to development?
• What are the millennium development goals?
• Why is debt a central issue of development finance and the demand for debt cancellation pre-eminent?
• How is aid used as a tool of foreign policy?
•  What is tied aid and conditionality?

The authors then bring the argument up-to-date by exploring the Paris Declaration (PD) on Aid Effectiveness from a critical CSO perspective. Several pertinent criticisms are illumined including:

•  The PD agenda is structured narrowly on aid delivery rather than on broader framework of sustainable development, gender equality, environmental sustainability and human rights
  
• CSOs believe that the PD is a political agreement, therefore all the issues and content not addressed have to be included in the process of implementation, monitoring and evaluation
  
• The PD contains no targets or indicators relating to a reduction of conditionality or benchmark triggers for the release of donor funds.
  

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