The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness إعلان باريس بشأن فعالية المعونة - ARABIC Dèclaration de Paris sur l'efficacité de l'aide au développement - FRENCH Erklärung von Paris über die Wirksamkeit der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - GERMAN Declaração de Paris sobre a Eficácia da Ajuda ao Desenvolvimento - PORTUGUESE Declaración de Paris sobre la eficacia de la ayuda al desarrollo - SPANISH The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness expresses the international community’s consensus on the direction for reforming aid delivery and management to achieve improved effectiveness and results.  The Paris Declaration is grounded on five mutually reinforcing pillars: Ownership: Partner countries exercise effective leadership over their development policies and strategies, and coordinate development actions. Alignment: Donors base their overall support on partner countries’ national development strategies, institutions, and procedures. Harmonization:  Donors’ actions is more harmonized and transparent. Made as cost-effective as possible through the elimination of duplicate efforts and the rationalization of activities. Managing for results: Managing resources and improving decision making for development results. Mutual accountability: Donors and partners are accountable for results. Commitments. The Paris Declaration contains 56 partnership commitments to improve the quality of aid. For example, under ownership, partner countries commit to exercise leadership in developing and implementing their national development strategies, and donors commit to respect partner countries’ leadership and help strengthen their capacity to exercise it. Indicators and Targets. The Paris Declaration also sets out 12 indicators to provide a measurable and evidence-based way to track progress, and sets targets for 11 of the indicators for the year 2010. Monitoring. A first round of monitoring of the 12 indicators was conducted in 2006 on the basis of activities undertaken in 2005 in 34 countries. It suggests that important efforts are still needed if we are to achieve the commitments agreed in the Paris Declaration and realize the full potential for improving development effectiveness at the country level. In the run-up to the Third High-Level Forum, another survey was conducted in early 2008 in 56 countries to assess progress in implementing the Paris commitments and prompt tangible improvements in the way aid is delivered.

European Development Days - EDD

Brussels hosted last 6 and 7 December 2010 the 5th edition of the EDD conference. The event have seen the participation of representatives from academic, institutional and civil society organizations gathering in the Belgian capital to discuss, comment and try to define the new set of priorities for the international cooperation sector. In particular, the presentations arranged in the Square Brussels Meeting Centre focused on 5 main topics. Namely, governance, democracy and human rights, private sector and global health.
Aid effectiveness, ownership, technical innovation, support to the local initiatives are concepts echoing in all the presentations. But good words are not enough. How is it acceptable in the 21 century the proliferation of counterfeit medicines? the MDGs objectives are far to be reached and resources for development projects initiatives have been cut down significantly both at states' and international level. But money is not all, first of all a more committed political will in the international community towards the needs of the most poor countries could contribute to a radical change

We will recap what have happened this year in occasion of the next edition of the EDD...See you sharing good news in December 2011 in Warsaw!!!!!!