Report from Accra HLF-3 Roundtable 4, Managing for Development Results

12-Feb-2009

Managing for Development Results (MfDR) has fundamental importance for achieving the Paris Declaration commitments. But judging by the Paris Declaration’s indicator for progress in managing for results, progress since 2005 has been modest.

Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management

12-Feb-2009

The Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management is part of the Joint Venture’s ongoing work on facilitating the implementation of the Paris Declaration (2005) as it relates to PFM. The report takes stock of progress  on using country systems in PFM and outlines recommendations on how best to achieve the 2010 targets as set out in the Paris Declaration and as we move to the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and beyond.

Procurement Compendium

04-Feb-2009

Compendium of Country Examples and Lessons Learned from Applying the Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems

Volume I – Sharing Experiences

Compendium - Passation des marchés

04-Feb-2009

Ce document présente l’expérience de 22 pays d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie et les enseignements qu’ils ont tirés de l’application de la Méthodologie d’évaluation des régimes nationaux de passation des marchés proposée par l’Activité conjointe du CAD-OCDE sur la passation des marchés. La Méthodologie a été mise au point et jugée apte à être testée sur le terrain en 2006 comme un outil visant à faciliter la réalisation des objectifs de la Déclaration de Paris et à promouvoir le renforcement des systèmes de passation des marchés.

The OECD going for Better Aid

04-Feb-2009

Better Aid is the most significant group of books ever published about Aid Effectiveness. Covering topics from country systems to mutual accountability and managing aid to monitoring its progress, Better Aid goes deeper in its analysis of what is working and what is not. These publications are essentially drawn from material tabled at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, 2-4 September 2008.

Doha Financing for Development Conference

05-Jan-2009

How can the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) provide coherent reinforcement of domestic policies and international support in ways that generate viable longer term financial scenarios for developing countries? The predictability of aid and domestic revenue mobilisation were explored in this side event.

OECD calls for Aid Pledge from donor countries

30-Oct-2008

The Secretary-General of OECD, Angel Gurría, and the Chair of OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, Eckhard Deutscher, have issued a call to the world’s main aid donor countries to stand by their development pledges despite the economic slowdown. “Unless we act decisively now, we may not be able to prevent the financial crisis from generating an aid crisis,” Mr Gurría and Mr Deutscher warn.

DACnews September 2008: from Accra to Action

24-Sep-2008

This special issue of DACnews reports on the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, Ghana, 2-4  September), where unprecedented consensus was reached on what is needed to significantly step up aid effectiveness. We explore what it took to make it happen, the important decisions and agreements made there, and one of the highlights of the event: the recording of a special BBC World Debate, live in Accra.

Stock take on donor approaches to managing risks when using country systems - May 2008

01-Aug-2008

Mokoro and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) drafted a stocktake paper which identifies and analyses donor approaches to managing risks when using country systems, the range of benefits from using country systems recognized by donors and the different types of relationships between risks and benefits recognized by donors. The stocktake was commissioned by DFID to feed into the Joint Venture on Public Financial Management’s report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management. The Stocktake Report is available here.

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs PFM Flash Report - June 2008

25-Jul-2008

The PFM Flash Report offers information about activities under, or relevant for, the PFM Support Programme of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The 2008 Report is dedicated to experiences with the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability initiative at five Dutch Embassies in partner countries.