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How effective is the European Union’s aid in the water sector? This document maps out where E.U. member states allocate their aid in the water sector and disaggregates these allocations between water supply, sanitation and hygiene and water resource management. The authors address how aid is targeted to different countries and assess how much of the EU aid is focused on addressing the MDG targets for water and for sanitation. The report also considers which countries appear to be under-aided.

The authors highlight the importance of separate accounting for expenditure in sanitation confirming that despite difficulties and statistical constraints it is feasible to disaggregate the ODA to the water sector from European Union donors. EU ODA does not necessarily flow to countries in greatest need - for example fragile states and states with low service coverage. The authors also show how with the current systems, it is not feasible to capture either the extent of pro-poor targeting of European ODA or the investments made in capacity building through analysis of donor commitments or disbursements. A baseline to benchmark and assess European Union progress is provided and the following conclusions included:

• Africa-oriented ODA from Europe for Water Supply for Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) represents about 60% of the European ODA amount allocated to this sector worldwide
  
• it is difficult to capture EU ODA flows beyond infrastructure construction
  
• within the Code of Conduct and the Paris declaration there are no specific indicators to measure the pro-poor dimension of European ODA
  
• although general budget support cannot be captured, only 29% of the ODA is provided as sector budget support in African countries
  
• EU donors provide about 30% of their WAS ODA to Africa IN sanitation and hygine
  

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