Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

1
Paris Declarationon Aid Effectiveness

• An Introduction

2
Presentation Flow

• Background information
• Objectives
• Partnership Commitments
• Indicators and targets

3
Historical Context

• More than 10 years of discussion and evolution
• Followed up on the
• Monterey Consensus (2002)
• Rome Declaration on Harmonization (2003)
• Marrakech Memorandum on Managing for Development
  Results (2004)
• Finalized and signed in
• HLF on Aid Effectiveness (Paris, 2005)

4
Signatories

• 56 developing countries
• 16 Asian countries
• 7 ASEAN and Timor Leste
• 35 donor countries
• 26 Multilateral Agencies

Observers

• 14 Civil Society Organizations

5
Objectives

• To significantly improve the potency and
  effectiveness of aid
• By taking far-reaching reforms towards the
  improvement of the delivery management of aid
• For more effective faster eradication of
  poverty inequality, and attainment of MDGs

6
Commitment Areas

• Ownership
• Partner countries (PC) exercise leadership
• Donors support and respect this leadership
• Alignment
• PCs develop national strategies, institutions,
  processes and procedures
• Donors base their support on these strategies,
  institutions, processes and procedures
• Harmonization
• Donors collectively harmonize, simplify,
  coordinate their actions in transparent manner
• PCs provide the environment leadership for
  harmonization

7
Commitment Areas

• 4. Managing for Results
• PCs improve development performance through
  results-based approaches and regular ME
• Donors support PCs to manage resources improve
  decision-making for results
• 5. Mutual Accountability
• Donors and PCs hold each other mutually
  accountable for development results
• PCs reinforce participation of stakeholders
  including parliamentarians
• Donors support the participatory processes by
  providing timely comprehensive information on
  aid flows

8
Donor Recipient Relationship
9
Partnership Relationship
Partner Country
10
56 Partnership Commitments
11
Targets for 2010(measured nationally monitored
internationally)
12
Targets for 2010(measured nationally monitored
internationally)
13
Is PD for real?

• An unprecedented global consensus
• High-level commitment and wide participation
• Consultative
• Welcomed by civil society
• An action-oriented road map
• A mechanism to monitor assess actions is in
  place
• Has established a stronger accountability
  mechanism

14
Thank you!
The Paris Declaration is only as real and as good
as we all would allow it to be!
ella s. antonio Earth Council Asia-Pacific