Countries adhering to the Paris Declaration and AAA Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action Adhesion procedure (pdf)
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At the Second High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2005) it was recognised that aid could - and should - be producing better impacts. The Paris Declaration was endorsed in order to base development efforts on first-hand experience of what works and does not work with aid. It is formulated around five central pillars: Ownership, Alignment, Harmonisation, Managing for Results and Mutual Accountability.
In 2008 at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness an even greater number and wider diversity of stakeholders endorsed the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA). The AAA both reaffirms commitment to the Paris Declaration and calls for greater partnership between different parties working on aid and development.
The Paris Declaration (2005) is a practical, action-oriented roadmap to improve the quality of aid and its impact on development. It gives a series of specific implementation measures and establishes a monitoring system to assess progress and ensure that donors and recipients hold each other accountable for their commitments. The Paris Declaration outlines the following five fundamental principles for making aid more effective:
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Designed to strengthen and deepen implementation of the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA, 2008) takes stock of progress and sets the agenda for accelerated advancement towards the Paris targets. It proposes the following four main areas for improvement:
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The Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action is available in English l French l Spanish
The Paris Declaration is also available in Arabic l German l Japanese l Moldovian/Romanian l Portuguese l Russian l
The Paris Declaration establishes targets that countries committed to achieve by 2010. The Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey is the tool through which countries are assessed on the commitments they made to each other to improve aid effectiveness by 2010. Three rounds of monitoring were carried out: the 2006 Monitoring Survey established the baseline, in 2008 the monitoring survey took stock of progress at the half-way point, the final 2011 monitoring survey established that out of 12 measurable commitments, only one had been fully achieved. However, there had been notable progress towards achieving some of the other commitments.
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