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Aid Effectiveness
Updated: 30 May 2008
The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Providing more effective aid and increasing its impact on development is one important contribution to this end.
ADB has been an active member of the development community in supporting the efforts at global and regional levels towards enhancing aid effectiveness.
The development community has been working to enhance aid effectiveness through the First High Level Forum held in Rome in 2003 which identified a general framework for harmonization and alignment, and the 2005 Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness which produced the Paris Declaration. More than 100 partner and donor countries and international agencies endorsed the Paris Declaration, a framework of discrete commitments and Indicators of Progress, including targets for ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability, to improve aid effectiveness. With this endorsement, Partner Countries and donors committed to monitor country implementation of the Paris Declaration.
The 3rd High-Level Forum* scheduled for September 2008 in Accra, Ghana, is to serve several purposes. The HLF-3 is to take stock of what has been achieved in terms of the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the commitments made by the development community.
The HLF-3 will also help identify the problems and constraints being faced by both donors and partner countries in achieving the Paris commitments and the actions needed to move the Paris agenda forward. An "Accra Agenda for Action" (AAA) is to be discussed at the ministerial segment of the HLF-3 and will provide a succinct statement of the main actions needed to achieve the targets of the Paris Declaration and to move the Aid Effectiveness agenda beyond 2010.
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