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Titles in this collection include:
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Volume 1: Framework for Donor Co-operation; Country Analytic Work and Preparation
of Projects and Programmes; Measuring Performance in Public Financial Management;
Reporting and Monitoring; Financial Reporting and Auditing; Delegated Co-operation
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Volume 2: Budget Support, Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public
Financial Management
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Volume 3: Strengthening Procurement Capacities in Developing Countries
Volume 1
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The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Effective use of scarce official development assistance is one important contribution to this end. This is why the development community, under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is dedicated to implementing improvements in aid practices that deliver more effective and harmonised support to the efforts of partner countries. The good practices presented here have been designed to respond to this concern. They represent a set of practical steps that – if applied by development agencies – should significantly improve the effectiveness of development assistance, while maintaining the same standards of quality. Please click here for the publication. |
Volume 2
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The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Effective use of scarce official development assistance is one important contribution to this end. This is why the development community, under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is dedicated to implementing improvements in aid practices that deliver more effective and harmonised support to the efforts of partner ountries. The good practices presented here have been designed to respond to this concern. They represent a set of practical steps that – if applied by development agencies – should significantly improve the effectiveness of development assistance.
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Following the first volume of good practices published in 2003, this second volume focuses more specifically on good practice in providing budget support (Chapter 2) and support to sector-wide approaches (Chapter 3). In doing so, it acknowledges the special relevance of public financial management issues for both of these modalities of aid delivery. This is why the last chapter of this volume (Chapter 4) is devoted to setting out good practice in providing support to capacity development for public financial management. This chapter, and the others, is complemented by a substantive annex that outlines a proposed approach to supporting improved public financial management performance. Please click here for the publication.
Volume 3
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Public procurement systems are at the centre of how public money is spent. Through these mechanisms, 12 to 20% of developing country GDP is spent annually (and as much as 70% of GDP in post-conflict countries such as Uganda or Sierra Leone). Even marginal improvements in these systems can therefore yield enormous benefits. Public procurement is big business and procurement reforms more than pay for themselves.
Yet procurement systems in many developing countries remain weak and past attempts to strengthen them have been hesitant at best. The Joint OECD-DAC / World Bank Round Table Initiative on Strengthening Procurement Capacities in Developing Countries was created in early 2003 to find answers to this important challenge, which has become increasingly central to the wider aid effectiveness agenda and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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The Round Table Initiative has produced this integrated set of Good Practice Papers on Strengthening Procurement Capacities, which is the third volume in the DAC Guidelines and Reference Series on Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery. Implementing the strategies and tools set out in these Good Practices will result in more effective and sustainable capacity development, that will in turn help create procurement systems that achieve greater value for money. These papers will be of great interest both to procurement professionals and to the political leadership in developing and donor countries that are serious about improving the effectiveness of their development and aid programmes. This volume should be published mid-2006, but the preliminary edition is now available.
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