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Aid effectiveness: overview of the results 2006 survey on monitoring the Paris Declaration
How can donor countries fulfil the Paris Declaration commitments?
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DAC-OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices, 2007
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 survey process and setting out key conclusions and recommendations.
Key implications of the survey that are highlighted include higher expectation levels for reform, deeper ownership and more accountable institutions, and increasing aid efficiency together with donor harmonisation. The authors suggest that aid effectiveness issues and results need to be discussed more explicitly at country level, and credible monitoring mechanisms need to be developed.
If countries and donors are to accelerate progress towards achieving the Paris Declaration commitments, it is recommended that:
- partner countries must deepen their ownership of the development process
- donors need to support these efforts by making better use of partners' capacity
- to further harmonisation, donors must work aggressively to reduce the transaction costs of delivering and managing aid
- to begin addressing mutual accountability commitments, countries and donors should clearly define a mutual action agenda.
