Deputy Chief of Staff (Administration) at the Office of the President, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has presented Ghana’s flagship “Accra Reset” development agenda to more than 250 international development leaders at a high-level Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference held in Paris, on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama.
The conference, hosted at OECD headquarters, convened global policymakers, economists, and development experts to examine the future of international development cooperation amid mounting economic pressures and humanitarian challenges affecting developing economies.
In her keynote address, delivered on behalf of President Mahama, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo positioned the Accra Reset as a sovereign-led development framework designed to reshape global partnerships while strengthening institutional capacity across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
She warned of a significant contraction in global development assistance, citing a 23.1% real-term decline in Official Development Assistance from Development Assistance Committee member states in 2025. She described the drop as the steepest annual reduction on record, noting that bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa has also fallen sharply, intensifying debt vulnerabilities across the region.
Outlining the core pillars of the Accra Reset initiative, she highlighted reforms spanning healthcare financing, economic transformation, and institutional strengthening. Key proposals include the establishment of sovereign industrial platforms, enhanced global health governance systems, and expanded digital skills and employment programmes targeting young people and women.
She further urged the OECD to integrate insights from sovereign-driven frameworks such as the Accra Reset into its global policy architecture, calling for deeper cooperation models rooted in mutual accountability and equitable partnerships between developed and developing nations.
On the sidelines of the conference, she held bilateral discussions with OECD Director for Development Co-operation Pilar Garrido, alongside Ghana’s Ambassador to France Mavis Ama Frimpong. The talks explored potential areas of collaboration between the OECD and Ghana’s Accra Reset Secretariat.
She also visited the Ghana Embassy in Paris, where she briefed staff on progress of the initiative and reiterated that Ghana’s Reset Agenda under President Mahama remains firmly on track.
