Working Party on Aid Effectiveness: The five clusters

The objectives of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness are to ensure that:

• Donors and partner countries meet their Paris and Accra commitments by 2010, and
• In doing so, deliver an account for development results at country level.

In order to achieve these objectives, the Working Party relies on the expertise of dedicated groups focusing on priority issues where further work is needed to advance commitments in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action and pave the way to the 4th High-Level Forum: the clusters.

The Working Party is organised in five clusters:

• Cluster A: Ownership and accountability. Focusing on issues such as Domestic Accountability, mutual accountability at country and international level, broad-based ownership, capacity development practices and systems in place.

• Cluster B: Country systems. Assessments on quality, increased use, capacity for strengthening, and accountability of country systems.

• Cluster C: Transparent and responsible aid. Complementarity and division of labour within & across countries, transparency on aid flows, conditionality and predictability.

• Cluster D: Assessing progress. 2011 Monitoring Survey, evaluating the Paris Declaration (2nd Phase), monitoring Principles in Fragile States and documenting Progress for HLF-4.

• Cluster E: Managing for development results (MfDR). MfDR assessment tools, good practice and guidance, result reporting, communities of practice