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.