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Aid Harmonization: What Will It Take to Meet the MDGs?

This Development Gateway Special Report looks at aid harmonization, a new framework for how donors may soon be conducting business in the developing world. This report contains interviews and feedback from the donor community, from aid recipients, from civil society, and from private citizens discussing the complexities of donor harmonization--and the promise it holds for meeting the MDGs in the developing world. You will find here links to resources about MDG- related aid projects, opportunities to participate in reader polls on aid issues, and opinions from Development Gateway members.

http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/aidharmonization

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Country-Level Harmonization: Emerging Implementation Lessons (Word)

February 22, 2003. This paper has been jointly prepared by the World Bank and the Secretariat of DAC/OECD. 1. Within the past two years or so, the two major groups of development institutions that are involved in the harmonization effort-the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (DAC/OECD)-have worked through various technical groups on issues such as donor cooperation, country analytic work, financial management, procurement, and environmental assessment. This paper distills and synthesizes the emerging lessons about implementing good practices on the ground. It draws on relevant initiatives that predate the work of the DAC and the MDBs, as well as on more recent "organized pilots" that are more directly linked to that work. Following this introduction, Section II illustrates harmonization initiatives from the 1990s to the present, and Section III draws the lessons that are emerging from this experience. Section IV provides a brief conclusion.

http://www1.worldbank.org/harmonization/romehlf/Documents/Harmonization%20-%20Country%20Implementation%20Experience.pdf

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Global Humanitarian Platform and Principles of Partnership

ActionAid was one of 40 organisations which met to convene the Global Humanitarian Platform (GHP) in Geneva in July 2006. The goal of the GHP is to enhance the effectiveness of humanitarian action, based on the perspective that collaboration between actors is vital in order to effectively address humanitarian needs.

http://www.actionaid.org/docs/ghp%20and%20pop%20actionaid%20statement.pdf

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Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (PDF)

Published by OECD 2003. DAC Guidelines and Reference Series. ISBN 92-64-19982-9 (PDF - 1034KB)

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/48/20896122.pdf

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One UN Pilots

The UN has launched a new pilot programme called 'One UN' aimed at testing how the different UN agencies can work in a more coordinated way. The pilot programme will take place in 8 countries.

http://www.undg.org/?P=7

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Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific: Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration [pdf]

The development effectiveness of aid requires explicit gender equality goals and targets in national development strategies and budgetary processes. The Jakarta Declaration in August 2007 called for sustained efforts to address the large imbalances in the implementation of the Paris Declaration that weaken the advancement of gender equality.(UNIFEM discussion paper, 2007)

http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/AidEffectiveness_AsiaPacific_eng.pdf

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Reforming the international aid architecture: Options and ways forward

The Working Paper describes the characteristics and constraints of the current international aid architecture. It also summarises the perceptions in partner developing countries of the strengths and weaknesses of key bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and the countries' perceptions of best practice features of aid agencies. More importantly, the Paper lists five options for reform of the international aid architecture: • Option A - Do nothing. • Option B - Rely on Harmonisation and Alignment, in the Paris Declaration. • Option C - Harmonisation and Alignment, with additional features. • Option D - Multilateralism (i.e. increased multilateralisation of aid delivery). • Option E - Empowerment of aid-receiving countries. (Simon Burall and Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute, October 2006)

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp278.pdf

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