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Overview of the Evaluation of the Paris Declaration

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Evaluation of the Paris Declaration

The factsheet on the evaluation of the implementation of Paris Declaration is now available

The Paris Declaration

The Paris Declaration poses an outstandingly important challenge both to the world of development cooperation in general and to the field of development evaluation in particular. Compared with previous joint statements on aid harmonisation and alignment, it provides a practical, action-oriented roadmap with specific targets to be met by 2010 and definite review points in the years between. The number of countries and international organisations participating in the High Level Forum (HLF) and putting their signature to the joint commitments contained in the Declaration was unprecedented, reflecting a progressive widening of the range of voices included in major meetings convened by the OECD DAC.

Evaluation will only be able to provide information about the end impacts and effects of increased aid effectiveness once donors and partners have worked to implement the commitments for some time and once sufficient monitoring data is available to feed into the evaluation process. However, it is important to start the evaluation process in 2007-08 in order to be able to highlight practical lessons learned on implementation and to contribute to ongoing aid effectiveness policy debates and to the 2008 HLF on Aid Effectiveness in Ghana. More summative evaluations will follow after 2008. The initial lesson learning evaluations would focus on issues such as:

What have we learned so far from experiences in different country contexts?
Under what conditions and why are benefits being realised or not realised?
The focus will be on the twin questions: are we doing the right things and are we doing things right?

KEY DOCUMENTS

Reports produced for the synthesis of the results of the first phase of the evaluation of the Paris Declaration: