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The DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness) was set up in May 2003 in the context of the international consensus reached at Monterrey on the actions needed to promote a global partnership for development and accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

In order to effectively cover its broad mandate the Working Party has established the following five themes to examine particular areas of interest: monitoring the Paris Declaration, public financial management, managing for development results,  procurement and aid untying.

 

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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.

2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration

27-Nov-2008

How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this report which presents the results from the second follow-up survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It assesses progress in 54 developing countries and helps us understand the challenges in making development aid more effective. The findings are clear: donors and partner countries need to take stock and commit to doing whatever is needed to reach the agreed targets by 2010.

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.

OECD fuels BBC World Debate on Africa and its partners

07-Oct-2008

Delegates to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness  (Accra, 2-4 Sept) attended the recording of a special BBC World Debate on trade, investment and aid effectiveness in Africa. The debate, produced in association with the BBC World Service Trust, focused on the important issues being discussed at the Forum. Key personalities exchanged ideas and opinions during the hour-long programme. Investing in Africa: What works? which was broadcasted on 11 and 12 Oct 2008.

Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management

01-Aug-2008

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.
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