Aid Effectiveness

In the midst of global economic downturn, better aid and lasting development results are essential to encouraging increased financing for development. The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action are key in leading to real improvements on the ground.

In order to cover its broad mandate, the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness has established the following themes:

· Monitoring the Paris Declaration

· Public Financial Management

· Managing for Development Results

· Health as a Tracer Sector

· Procurement

· Aid Untying

What's new

Opening Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, on Innovative financing perspectives

29-May-2009

Most developing countries grew at impressive rates during the first five years of this Century, managing to pull millions of people out of poverty. But now their perspectives are bleak: by the end of the year, the number of poor people can increase by more than 100 million. In the last seven years, a range of new financing mechanisms have been launched. The time has come to take stock of this wealth of experiences and to look in more detail at their impact on the global aid architecture and on countries’ strategies, priorities and systems.

The OECD Better Aid series

04-Feb-2009

The OECD Development Assistance Committee has launched a new publication series called "Better Aid". These publications are essentially drawn from material tabled at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, Ghana, 2-4 September 2008).

Doha Financing for Development Conference

05-Jan-2009

How can the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) provide coherent reinforcement of domestic policies and international support in ways that generate viable longer term financial scenarios for developing countries? The predictability of aid and domestic revenue mobilisation were explored in this side event.

DAC Guiding Principles for Aid Effectiveness, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

09-Mar-2009

These Guiding Principles suggest approaches and entry points for policy advisors and programme managers in both donor and partner countries to increase the prospects for achieving development results and impacts through work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Also available in French and Spanish.

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Just Released - Managing Development Resources

The use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management

Better Aid series

Out Now - Aid Effectiveness Progress Report

Ownership, harmonisation, alignment, results and mutual accountability - 5 Partnership Principles examined in this report.

Better Aid series

Conference on Financing for Development

How can the Accra Agenda for Action provide coherent reinforcement of domestic policies and international support in ways that generate viable longer term financial scenarios for developing countries?

Doha Side Event