Tackling challenges and moving forward
In recent years there have been several cornerstone international initiatives that have called for more co-ordinated provision of development assistance in order to improve the quality of aid, and subsequently its impact on health outcomes, poverty reduction and development. These include: the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development, 2002; the Rome Declaration on Aid Harmonization, 2003; and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, 2005
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness establishes global commitments for donor and recipient countries to support more effective aid. The declaration lays out five principles that should shape aid delivery. These are:
The real challenge remains in translating these declarations into deeds and actions. Important building blocks for this change are described in brief below. They include a number of different but complementary efforts at both international and country levels.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness establishes global commitments for donor and recipient countries to support more effective aid. The declaration lays out five principles that should shape aid delivery. These are:
- Ownership: partner countries exercise effective authority over their development policies, strategies and national systems, including health sector plans, when relying on external resources
- Alignment: donors base their overall support on partner countries’ national development strategies, systems (including health service delivery systems, information and monitoring systems) and procedures
- Harmonisation: donors organise their multiple activities in ways that maximise their collective efficacy
- Managing for results: countries manage resources and improve decision-making for results
- Mutual accountability: donor and developing countries will be mutually accountable for development results
The real challenge remains in translating these declarations into deeds and actions. Important building blocks for this change are described in brief below. They include a number of different but complementary efforts at both international and country levels.
Recommended readings
- Paris declaration on aid effectiveness
- ( Aid Harmonization & Alignment , 2005)
- Adopted at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005) the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, has been prepared with broad participation from development practitioners, through a proce...
- Aid effectiveness: overview of the results 2006 survey on monitoring the Paris Declaration
- ( DAC-OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices , 2007)
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This document presents the first volume of results from a survey on the Paris Declaration. It provides an overview of the key findings across the 34 countries involved, as well as assessing the sur...
- Reforming the international aid architecture: options and ways forward
- ( S. Burall;S. Maxwell;A. R. Menocal / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2006)
- This Overseas Development Institute working paper describes the characteristics and constraints of the current international aid architecture. It also summarises the perceptions in developing countrie...
- From Paris 2005 to Accra 2008: will aid become more accountable and effective?: a critical approach to the aid effectiveness agenda
- ( CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum Network , 2007)
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Civil society organisations (CSOs) continue to lobby for effective implementaiton of the Paris Declaration (PD) on aid effectiveness. This policy paper outlines some of the key CSO critiques and co...
