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The Paris Declaration and AAA

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The Paris Declaration, endorsed on 2 March 2005, is an international agreement to which over one hundred Ministers, Heads of Agencies and other Senior Officials adhered and committed their countries and organisations to continue to increase efforts in harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results with a set of monitorable actions and indicators.

Joint progress toward enhanced Aid Effectiveness


Ownership - Developing countries set their own strategies for poverty reduction, improve their institutions and tackle corruption.


Alignment - Donor countries align behind these objectives and use local systems.


Harmonisation - Donor countries coordinate, simplify procedures and share information to avoid duplication.


Results - Developing countries and donors shift focus to development results and results get measured.


Mutual Accountability - Donors and partners are accountable for development results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA)  was drawn up  in 2008 and builds on the commitments agreed in the Paris Declaration.

 

 

An Agenda to Accelerate Progress

 

Predictability – donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid to partner countries.
Country systems – partner country systems will be used to deliver aid as the first option, rather than donor systems.


Conditionality – donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country’s own development objectives.


Untying – donors will relax restrictions that prevent developing countries from buying the goods and services they need from whomever and wherever they can get the best quality at the lowest price.
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The Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration was established to take the lead in “tracking and encouraging progress at the global level among the countries and agencies that have agreed to the Declarationand AAA”.

 
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