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The reforms are intended to "increase the impact of aid [...] in reducing poverty and inequality, increasing growth, building capacity and accelerating the achievement of the MDGs". [...] Linking the implementation of Paris Declaration to these key development goals puts the interests and rights of poor and marginalized people at the centre of the aid effectiveness agenda. [...] Can aid deliver? A civil society challenge to the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness 5 The AAA should include a commitment to end all donor-imposed policy conditions and the use of aid to support foreign and economic policy priorities and interests, and military interventions. [...] Rather, CSOs must be given full play to hold donors and governments to account for implementing aid effectiveness principles, and in enriching the application of aid effectiveness principles and PD in their diverse roles in engagement with donors and governments, and especially in empowering the poor to claim their rights. [...] The network is keen to develop awareness of the aid effectiveness agenda at the local, national and international level and sees the Ghana HLF as an important opportunity for bringing about discussion and debate and the engagement of CSOs on the said agenda.