On 28th and 29th November 2006, a G7 NGO Coalition meeting was held in Berlin in preparation for the G8 Summit to be held in Germany in June 2007 under the theme of "Growth and Responsibility."

Furthermore, other high-level meetings will be held prior to the G8 Summit, and NGO input is needed for those as well.

Representing the largest network NGOs in each country, the NGO participants mutually confirmed their desire for poverty reduction and Africa to be topics for the G8 Summit, and were able to meet with the chief facilitator for the G8 Summit. Both sides stressed that dialog was key to civil society contributing input to G8 policy. Hideyuki Takahashi, Vice-Chair, JANIC and Director, Resource Development and Campaign, JOICFP, participated in the meeting.

G7 NGO network representatives meet with G8-Summit representatives at the German Ministry of Economics and Technology.

One of the topics for discussion was that NGOs realize that although many international declarations and statements have been issued, achieving what has been promised has often not fully occurred. While NGOs make great efforts to have their input accepted by governments, little is done in the way of monitoring government accountability to international commitments.

Donor communities raise the issue of transparency and corruption in aid. If NGOs and civil society, who are representing the tax-payers, have greater input in policy and monitoring of aid, the effectiveness of aid will increase and corruption and other problems with aid delivery will decrease.

In addition, NGOs in developing countries are raising their capacity and with more synchronization with donors could assist in the better use of donor aid.