in africa the situation is expected to be extremely tense involving a variety of risks such as groundwater depletion brakes on growth in certain sectors and the destruction of ecosystems in the g summit in evian adopted a global action plan for water an international consensus on official development assistance has also taken shape within the framework of various multistakeholder meetings on effective aid hosted by the development assistance committee dac in paris in accra in and busan in this consensus enshrines four principles of particular relevance to the water sector ownership of development priorities by the beneficiary countries a focus on results development partnerships open to all and transparency and mutual accountability forty per cent of this assistance was allocated to the poorest countries with close to onethird of the resources going to africa