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Looking at aid effectiveness at the sector level is the best way to communicate widely about aid effectiveness.
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Examination of sectors allows for concrete measuring of results and in-depth understanding of problems. The aid effectiveness agenda has been confined to a restricted and high-level policy audience within agencies and international agencies. It needs to trickle down to practitioners and should be mainstreamed in all aid activities and at the sector level. This is the best way to change behaviour.
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It offers a concrete and tangible illustration of what the whole aid effectiveness process and policy guidelines mean in countries. Sectors have provided a significant source of information and lessons for the aid effectiveness agenda, starting from the design and development of SWAPs.
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It is at the sector level that one can appreciate the real progress, challenges and remaining problems in using the existing aid effectiveness tools.Sectors offer real-life testing opportunities. Looking at the sector level allows for measuring and reporting about impact and changing the life of the people. Looking at aid effectiveness with a sector lens ensures a stronger link with the MDGs and development agenda.
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Health is a litmus test for broader aid effectiveness efforts together
Health is one of the most - if not the most - complex and fragmented sectors. There are around 100 global health partnerships; in 2006, OECD reported that 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa counted between 18 and 23 donors active in the health sector with a handful accounting for the bulk of aid and real opportunities for better concentration of aid.
Aid to the health sector has recently significantly increased and captured a rising share of ODA (total bilateral commitments to health accounted for 5.3% of ODA in 1980-1984 and 7.8% of total ODA in 2006). Yet progress towards achieving the MDGs and other important international goals remains slow, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving progress in this area is a prerequisite to a large number of development outcomes and to sustainable growth. Looking at health from an aid effectiveness standpoint is a way to ensure that aid effectiveness is not only about process but about achieving impact on development.
Because of its complexity, the health sector provides lessons that can be useful for adapting and fine-tuning the aid effectiveness framework. Other sectors have been interested by the work in health and the health work stream should play a role of leverage and invites in fact all sectors to think about their contribution to the aid effectiveness.
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Report: Monitoring the Implementation of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action
This OECD report synthetises progress made in implementing the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action in a range of sectors and areas (agriculture, aid for trade, climate change, education, gender equality, health, infrastructure and capacity development)examines lessons learned from sector approaches to provide tangible illustrations of how the Paris Declaration and AAA are being implemented and what this means to people's lives. This report was presented at the meeting of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness on 27-28 October, the OECD secretariat.
To download the full report (pdf.358kb)
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Ownership and Accountability
Country Systems
Transparent and Responsible Aid
Assessing Progress
Managing for Development Results
