Implementing Plans

Developing countries determine and implement their development policies to achieve their own economic, social and environmental goals.

The Paris Declaration states that this would be the top priority. The Accra Agenda for Action outlines additional steps to turn this resolution into a reality through strengthening country ownership over development.

These areas outline work in development action and implementation:

     · Public Financial Management

     · Procurement

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The impact that our collective efforts have on the lives of poor people is under the microscope. Greater transparency and accountability in the use of development resources—domestic as well as external—are powerful drivers of progress.

     · Managing for Development Results

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The effectiveness of aid is reduced when there are too many duplicating initiatives, especially at country and sector levels.

Reducing the fragmentation of aid by improving the complementarity of donors’ efforts and the division of labour among donors, including through improved allocation of resources within sectors, within countries, and across countries will bring about better aid.

     · Sectoral Approaches - Health

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Untied aid is procured through open international competition (e.g. international competitive bidding). By contrast, tied aid is where procurement is restricted to suppliers from the donor country offering that aid.

Untying aid is a slow and complex process, but one firmly on the international development agenda. Indicators on progress with aid untying are integral parts the MDGs and the Paris Declaration.

     · Aid Untying