For DAC members, this entails improving the management, delivery and complementarity of development co-operation activities to ensure the highest development impact.

The Working Party will engage in assessing and supporting the harmonisation of donor practices and alignment with country-owned poverty reduction strategies and other development frameworks, systems and processes. Country ownership and capacity development will be fundamental considerations in its work.

Focus will be on facilitating the implementation of agreed policies and good practices and assessing overall progress on the ground, on further exchange of good practice and on selective policy development.

The Working Party will involve partner countries in its work and invite participation from a range of development organisations beyond the permanent DAC Observers including the Regional Development Banks and the Strategic Partnership with Africa.