This volume addresses the changing nature of the international aid system and the challenges it poses for the multilateral system, donors and aid recipients, centring on new regional and national relationships developing in the multilateral system, economic and social forces, and national and global policy making. To come Manmohan Agarwal, CIGI, Canada Hany Besada, North-South Institute, Canada Michael Blomfield, The Brookings Institution, USA Musa Bullaleh, UNAIDS Geneva, Switzerland Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa, Canada H.E. Joaquim Alberto Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique (1986-2004) Arjan De Haan, International Development Reserch Centre, Canada Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago David Felsen, Alliant International University, USA Pradeep Kakkattil, UNAIDS Geneva, Switzerland George Kararach, African Development Bank, Tunisia Homi Kharas, The Brookings Institution, USA Shannon Kindornay, North-South Institute, Canada Frannie Léautier, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University China Franklyn Lisk, University of Warwick, UK Towera Luhanga, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe Frédéric Martin, Institute for Development in Economics and Administration, Canada MichaelOlender, North-South Institute, Canada Yiagadeesen Samy, Carleton University, Canada Franke Toornstra, Institute for Development in Economics and Administration, Canada Ward Warmerdam, Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands.