Aid effectiveness
The European Union is highly committed to the objectives of the Paris Declaration for improved aid effectiveness adopted at the High Level Forum held in Paris on February 28 - March 2 2005 and reaffirmed at the Accra High Level Forum in September 2008 by the development cooperation community worldwide. National ownership, donor coordination and harmonisation, starting at field level, alignment to recipient country systems and results orientation are core principles in this respect.
The EU is working at policy, strategy and implementation levels to accelerate progress on the Paris and EU actions and indicators. Besides having adopted the Paris Indicators, the EC has set even more ambitious targets on four of these:
- To provide all capacity-building assistance through coordinated programmes with an increasing use of multi-donor arrangements.
- To channel 50% of government-to-government assistance through country systems to include increasing the percentage of EU assistance provided through budget support or SWAP arrangements.
- To avoid setting up any new project implementation units (PIUs).
- To reduce the number of uncoordinated missions by 50%.
The EC is dedicated to working with all development partners to improve the quality and impact of its aid as well as to improve donor practices, and to help partner countries use increased aid flows more effectively. In this respect the EU is committed to adopting more predictable and less volatile aid mechanisms, to ensure stable aid to partner countries and allow them to make effective planning.
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