Since Accra, Kenyan rural civil society organizations and women have nationally been working through the Community Partners Alliance plat form on aid and development effectiveness issues, at the national level, the Alliance documented and disseminated for implementation CSO Development effectiveness policies and information that worked to preserve and develop Kenya’s diverse cultural and natural h
eritage for improved livelihood of the Kenyan people, while it linked thousands of its partner rural CSOs and women to the two parallel platforms at the Global level: The Open Forum platform, working on articulating the CSOs own role as independent development actors and on issues of CSO development effectiveness and enabling environment specifically and the Better Aid platform working on monitoring government and donor commitments to development effectiveness made at HLF2 (Paris) and HLF3 (Accra). The successful outcomes of the Open Forum process which include the development of International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness, which was the result of a three-year consultation process with thousands of CSOs across the globe in 70+ countries (and which was acknowledged in §22 of the final outcome document of the HLF4), as well as its accompanying toolkits to support CSOs in putting the principles into practice in their own national and organizational contexts, and advocating for a more enabling environment in their countries were all well circulated, discussed and appreciated at village and national levels through the Community Partners Alliance efforts. Given the evolving aid and development effectiveness architecture after HLF4 (Busan, December 2011) as well as the accountabilities that the CSO sector has committed to in Busan, there is a need for the sector in Kenya and globally to further advance positive policy gains in aid and official cooperation reform, and advance on the CSO commitments as independent development actors. In order to fulfill these functions, Open Forum and BetterAid (the two global CSO development effectiveness platforms) have taken stock of their work in this process and are re-organising themselves into the CSO Platform for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) in order to more effectively engage the new policy context, as this is being done globally, nationally rural CSOs and women in Kenya are winding up the Community Partners Alliance platform to form the Central Organization of MICRO Development Credit Villages.
