The Ghana Civil Society Aid Effectiveness Forum was established in May 2007 to mobilize Ghanaian civil society to engage with and influence the 2008 High Level Forum (HLF) that will be held in Accra to review the Paris Declaration on international development aid. The forum would also provide secretarial support to the International Civil Society Parallel Conference on aid effectiveness.

In recognition of CSOs role in the aid architecture, the Working Party (WP) on aid effectiveness within the Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) has set up an Advisory Group (AG) on CSOs to facilitate their engagement in Accra. The AG has so far facilitated a number of CSO consultations around the globe and had series of meetings with the ISG  with the aim to promote CSO participation in the Accra High Level Forum. To fully consolidate outcomes from the CSO processes and present a common agenda to the HLF- 3, the global CSO platform would organise parallel conference on aid effectiveness, which would bring together over 300 CSOs from all over the world.