Under the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, donors and partner countries commit to 'reform procedures and strengthen incentives - including for recruitment, appraisal and training - for management and staff to work towards harmonization, alignment and results'. DAC Peer Reviews highlight a number of positive efforts by individual donors. However, much more remains to be done.
This report addresses this need and aims to provide donor agencies with guidance on how to improve aid effectiv more...
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This action plan sets out Australia's broad strategic approach to harmonization and provides an update on progress. It should be read in conjunction with the matrix of planned and current donor harmonization activities (Attachment A). This action plan incorporates the principles arising from the international policy dialogue on harmonization, and in particular the Rome Declaration on Harmonization.
Australia's approach to harmonization and alignment is driven by country capacities and priori more...
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This booklet aims to stimulate dialogue around the aid reform effort embodied by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It reminds us of why this agreement is important, outlines what objectives have been set, and points to what still needs to be accomplished. This effort is driving many actors in developing countries—56 of whom participated in the 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration— aid agencies, global funds and civil society groups to reflect and act together within the more...
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How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this survey report which presents the results from the second-, follow-up survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It assesses progress in 54 developing countries and helps us understand the challenges in making aid more effective in order to advance development. The findings are clear: progress is being made, but not fast enough. Unless they seriously gear more...
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'NAIROBI, 4 November 2008 (PlusNews) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
Since its inception, the Fund has committed US$11.3 billion to 136 countries, about half of which has been disbursed. Funding to beneficiary countries is based on performance, and failure to meet targets can lead to d more...
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'The goal of this paper is to understand better, at the empirical level, how public spending contributes to growth by focusing on both the level and composition of public spending, in connection to the dynamics of GDP per capita growth. It attempts to answer two specific questions: (a) What are the policy conditions under which public spending contributes positively to growth? and (b) What are the public spending components that have a stronger and longer-lasting impact on growth?'
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Long before Cyclone Sidr struck the southern coastal areas of Bangladesh on 15 November 2007, many important life-saving actions had been carried out. Thanks to early warning systems and disaster preparedness measures, up to 3,000,000 people had already evacuated low-lying coastal areas, many finding refuge in anti-cyclone shelters. Nevertheless, as Cyclone Sidr tore through several coastal districts, it left enormous devastation in its wake.
Preparations for disaster saved many lives and th more...
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