1. Effective Aid? From Paris to Accra to Doha and Beyond
GERT DANIELSEN
PROGRAMME SPECIALIST, UNDP
11 MAY 2009

2. TODAY’S PRESENTATION What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
Any progress since Paris?
What came out of Accra?
What is the UN response?
Access to more information
Q&A, Discussion

3. WHAT IS THE PARIS DECLARATION?
Millennium Summit 2000, Summit+5
Monterrey (FfD) 2002, Rome 2003, Paris 2005, Accra 2008 (AAA), HLF4 2011
OECD, WB, Regional Banks, civil society
Monitoring Surveys 2006 and 2008
PD Implementation Evaluation

4. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, March 2005
Who endorsed it?
35 donor countries
26 multilateral donor agencies
56 countries that receive aid
(recently more)
14 civil society organisations present
Roadmap to deliver more effective aid:
56 specific commitments
12 indicators of progress

5. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: 12 Indicators of Progress (1/2)
Ownership:
1. Partners have operational development strategies.
Alignment:
2. Reliable country systems.
3. Aid flows are aligned on national priorities.
4. Strengthen capacity by coordinated support.
5. Use of country systems.
6. Strengthen capacity by avoiding parallel PIUs.
7. Aid is more predictable
8. Aid is untied.

6. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: 12 Indicators of Progress (2/2)
Harmonization:
9. Use common arrangements or procedures.
10. Encourage shared analysis and joint missions.
Managing for Development Results:
11. Results-oriented frameworks.
Mutual Accountability:
12. Joint/independent country reviews of aid
effectiveness.

7. Paris-FfD Principles
Effective development cooperation - an integral part of global partnership for development
Development cooperation guided by a shared set of development goals, owned by all stakeholders.
National development priorities and IADGs constitute this agreed framework for development cooperation

8. From Monterrey and Paris
Outcome 2005
FfD PD
ECOSOC symposia and HLD
Monitoring progress, CCIs, CSOs
DCF
Accra Sept. 2008
Doha Dec. 2008

9. TODAY’S PRESENTATION What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
Any progress since Paris?
What came out of Accra?
What is the UN response?
Access to more information
Q&A, Discussion

10. ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS?
Ownership
PDI 1 17% vs 12,5% (target 75%)
Poor predictability
Alignment
Little progress with aid on budget
Some improvement on untying
Some improvement on PFM systems quality
Little use of systems, no ‘quality correlation’

11. ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS?
Harmonisation
Some progress on PBAs
Some progress on joint missions, studies
Managing for Development Results
Challenges in monitoring national devt plans
Unrealistic performance matrices
Mutual Accountability
Need for donor-country balance
CS and parliaments to come onboard

12. TODAY’S PRESENTATION What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
Any progress since Paris?
What came out of Accra?
What is the UN response?
Access to more information
Q&A, Discussion

13. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA? Accra Agenda for Action
Predictability – donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on planned ODA
Partner country systems – first option for aid delivery
Conditionality – switch from prescriptive conditions to countries’ dev’t objectives
Conditionality – conditions made public

14. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA?
Broad ownership – more engagement of civil society and parliaments; CD for all
Gender equality, environment, HR, disability – integrated into national plans
Country-led division of labour – across sectors and countries (2009)
Commitment to engage with CSOs
Situations of fragility - special efforts

15. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA?
Monitoring – donors to align with country information systems
Incentives for AE – authority to donor field offices and staff incentives
Untying – restrictions relaxed to allow best quality-lowest price purchases
Link to MDG Event and FfD Doha – SG asked to convey AAA message

16. TODAY’S PRESENTATION What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
Any progress since Paris?
What came out of Accra?
What is the UN response?
Access to more information
Q&A, Discussion

17. WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE? UNDG Practice Note and Action Plan
UNDG Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
Capacity development for AE implementation (DoL for agencies, funds)
UNCT implementation of the Paris Declaration
Country and CS facilitation

18. WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE? Support in RRMs (CGs, RTs, JAS)
Aid policy, AIMS and PFM linkage
Peer-learning, tripartite cooperation
Sharing best practices (CoP)
CSO, gender, HR, MICs, new donors
HIV response, post-crisis contexts
UN positioning, UNCT facilitation

19. UNDP ENGAGEMENT IN BS, FUNDS
Growing demands from governments and the recent TCPRs - reports:
“UNDP engagement in direct budget support and pooled funds” (DP/2008/36)
“The role of UNDP in the changing aid environment at the country level”, DP/2008/53) in September  
The Executive Board issued two decisions and endorsed a four-year pilot period, enabling UNDP to provide limited financial contributions to a sector budget support fund and/or pooled fund (Decisions 2008/24 and 2008/29).
Main contribution: capacity development. Soon: Respective guidance note for COs on options and approval processes

20. OPTIONS FOR UNDP ENGAGEMENT
UNDP support in a DBS environment in four ways:
Standard UNDP project for policy advisory services and capacity development support;
Managing a pooled fund upon request by a government;
Signing on to a sector budget support fund or a pooled fund as a non-fund provider or “signatory without” fiduciary obligation”, or becoming a non-signatory with observer status in the respective partnership group;
A financial contribution to a sector budget support fund or to a pooled fund.
COs can undertake an appropriate combination of options

21. TODAY’S PRESENTATION What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
Any progress since Paris?
What came out of Accra?
What is the UN response?
Access to more information
Q&A, Discussion

22. ACCESS TO MORE INFORMATION
UNDG:
NY:
Panama:

23. QUIZ
OECD-DAC
AAA
HLF
RRM
AIMS
TBC

24. OBRIGADO

25. QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
Which tools will help the CO/CT?
What are CT challenges?