Following the first volume of good practices for effective aid delivery, this second volume focuses more specifically on good practice in providing budget support and support to sector-wide approaches.
This book presents a set of practical steps related to harmonising donor practices that should significantly improve the effectiveness of development assistance.
This book examines the regulatory rules on public procurement in selected African countries and provides a comparative analysis of key regulatory issues.
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness defines the principles and commitments by which donors and developing countries intend to ensure that aid is as effective as possible in contributing to the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development objectives. This report is a mid-term review of progress towards these commitments, drawing on the 2008 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey and the Evaluation Synthesis Report among many other sources. Part I highlights the main actionable lessons and messages emerging from the analysis of progress to date. Part II covers the commitments under the five Partnership Principles related to ownership, alignment, harmonisation, development results and mutual accountability, together with four subjects of critical relevance: sector perspectives, the role of civil society organisations, situations of fragility and conflict, and the changing aid architecture.
Annotation Effective use of official development assistance is an important aspect of achieving the international community's commitment to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. These good practice guidelines, developed under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), are designed to help enable development agencies to improve the effectiveness of development assistance, while maintaining the same standards of quality.
Effective use of official development assistance is an important aspect of achieving the international community's commitment to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. These good practice guidelines, developed under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), are designed to help enable development agencies to improve the effectiveness of development assistance, while maintaining the same standards of quality.
This edited collection fills a significant gap in the literature by gathering contributions from the most prominent academics and practitioners of aid and procurement. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procurement and aid effectiveness in developing countries, and takes stock of current debates in the field. More specifically, the contributions analyse the failures and successes of current initiatives to foster effectiveness and streamline the aid procurement process, and address current themes emerging in the literature related to development, procurement and aid success. A pivotal and timely publication, Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness will be of interest to a varied and multicultural international audience and a wide range of actors working on aid effectiveness, development, procurement and good governance initiatives in both donor and beneficiary countries.
The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Effective use of scarce official development assistance is one important contribution to this end. This is why the development community, under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is dedicated to implementing improvements in aid practices that deliver more effective and harmonised support to the efforts of partner countries. The good practices presented here have been designed to respond to this concern. They represent a set of practical steps that – if applied by development agencies – should significantly improve the effectiveness of development assistance. Following the first volume of good practices published in 2003, this second volume focuses more specifically on good practice in providing budget support (Chapter 2) and support to sector-wide approaches (Chapter 3). In doing so, it acknowledges the special relevance of public financial management issues for both of these modalities of aid delivery. This is why the last chapter of this volume (Chapter 4) is devoted to setting out good practice in providing support to capacity development for public financial management. The chapters are complemented by a substantive annex that outlines a proposed approach to supporting improved public financial management performance. In the same collection: Volume 1: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery Volume 2: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Budget Support, Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public Financial Management Volume 3: Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Strengthening Procurement Capacities in Developing Countries The first volume in this collection on Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (ISBN 9264199829) was published in May 2003 without a volume number. Its success was such that a short collection of books (of which this is Volume 2) has been created.
There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.
This publication addresses the need, as agreed in the Paris Declaration, for donors and partner countries to commit to strengthening incentives for their agencies to work toward harmonisation, alignment, and results.
