Development cooperation directorate dac working party on aid effectiveness dcdeffjc 2, rue andrepascal, 75775 paris cedex 16, france tel. These stories can then be used in future brochures and posters. Com dcd dev 2006 4 aid effectiveness in health oecd. Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development cooperation. This guidance was commissioned by the oecd dac working party on aid evaluation at its meeting in april 1997 and has proceeded with the financial support of danida, finnida, the netherlands development cooperation and the uk department for international development. The following dac guidelines for gender equality and womens. Working party on aid effectiveness hosted at the oecd dac from the articulating voice in the asia pacific peertopeer initiative october 26 th facility for asia and pacific 2009, siem reap, cambodia.
The paris declaration on aid effectiveness oecd, 2008a grew out of a learning experience over several decades leading to the conclusion that development depends primarily on efforts at the country level, and that aid needs to focus on facilitating these efforts, not on trying to replace them. Since the first edition, much has changed in the world of aid. New dac working partynew dac working party wp aid effectiveness and donor practices. The working party on aid effectiveness comprises senior policy advisers from the 23 dac members as well as representatives from 22 developing countries and 11 multilateral organisations. Draft submission to the united nations development. Created to advise the dacs working party on aid effectiveness, the advisory group brought together donors, developing country governments, and csos from both developed and developing countries. Most significantly, the working party on aid effectiveness was replaced in 2012 with a new global partnership for effective development cooperation. Poland was represented by mr krzysztof olendzki, deputy director of the department of development cooperation in the ministry of foreign affairs. This guidance was commissioned by the oecddac working party on aid evaluation at its meeting in april 1997 and has proceeded with the financial support of danida, finnida, the netherlands development cooperation and the uk department for international development. Development assistance committee working party on aid effectiveness. Harmonising donor practices for effective aid delivery and. Lessons from previous evaluations submitted by niels dabelstein, chair of the dac working party on aid evaluation to the dac senior level meeting, 12th december 2001.
Under this committee is the working party on aid effectiveness which facilitates donor efforts to improve aid effectiveness in various related areas. In preparation of the third high level forum on aid effectiveness to be held in accra, ghana on 24 september 2008, members of the working party on aid effectiveness and the dac network on development evaluation have asked for a thematic study of the extent to which development partners. Increasing investment in health outcomes for the poor. In early 2012, the oecd dac working party on development finance statistics wpstat and the international aid transparency initiative iati formulated the framework for a common standard. The oecddacs working party on aid effectiveness wpeff emerged in 2003 as a platform for donors, partner countries and later civil society to discuss a partnership for development. How are developing countries and their partners working together to support it. The dac as a central actor in experiences over the past four. Two subgroups of the working party produced this volume. The aewg agenda includes evaluation and program effectiveness foreign assistance reform, and food security and agriculture. Development cooperation directorate dac working party on aid. The paris declaration on aid effectiveness and the accra.
Hosted by the oecd dac, the working party on aid effectiveness is the forum behind the paris declaration on aid effectiveness, which has partnership at its core. The oecddac criteria for international development evaluations. The dachosted working party on aid effectiveness, for instance, was set up in the context of the international consensus reached at monterrey on actions needed to promote the global partnership for development and accelerate progress toward the mdgs. It describes itself as being the venue and voice of the worlds major donor countries. Section 4 concludes the paper, noting that improvements in the quality of aid for health will be critically important as donors make good their promises to increase aid levels between now and 2015.
The organisation for economic cooperation and development has the primary function of coordinating the international communitys efforts for effective distribution of aid through the development assistance committee or dac. Aid effectiveness workshopsummary brookings institution. Aid quality and effectiveness but the core agenda of the dac was also, from the start, concerned with the quality and effectiveness of aid. At the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that promoting widespread and sustainable development was not only about. The mfdr sourcebook on emerging good practice developed by the oecd dac working party on aid effectiveness and donor practices presents concepts, tools and principles and gives examples of their application at national level, sector programmes and projects and in development agencies. The former dac expert group, renamed in 1998 the dac working party on gender equality, has performed a valuable service by drawing together a set of practical guidelines for advancing the goals identified by the dac and by beijing with respect to gender equality. Report on the use of country systems in public financial. English development cooperation directorate development assistance committee working party on aid effectiveness. Quality was seen partly as a necessary complement to the question of volume.
Making progress in implementing the nairobi outcome document. Following the cold war in the late 1990s, donor governments and aid agencies began to realize that their many different approaches and requirements for conditioning aid were imposing huge costs on developing countries and making aid less effective. The dac hosted working party on aid effectiveness, for instance, was set up in the context of the international consensus reached at monterrey on actions needed to promote the global partnership for development and accelerate progress toward the mdgs. Plenary meeting of the working party on aid effectiveness. On june 2829 plenary meeting of the working party on aid effectiveness wpeff dac oecd was held in paris. Glossary of key terms in evaluation and results based. Aid effectiveness is the effectiveness of development aid in achieving economic or human development or development targets. What works best in ngooda agency partnerships in promoting. Working party on aid effectiveness hosted at the oecd dac from the articulating voice in the asia pacific peertopeer initiative october 26 th facility for. The dac as a central actor in experiences over the past. The proposal was endorsed by the working party for aid effectiveness wpeff in june 2012.
The working party was established by the dac to help build partnerships between donors and partner developing countries that deliver more effective aid. The working party on aid effectiveness transforming global. Oecddac as part of the working party on aid effectiveness wpeff5 week held in paris, france, 25 29 october 2010. What it will take is aid going where it is needed most. Whilst afghanistan is a larger and more populous country than many previous major crisis zones1 and. Making development cooperation more effective 2019 progress report. The aim was to seize the opportunity of the upcoming accra high level forum on aid effectiveness in sept. Pdf the oecddac criteria for international development.
Jan cedergren, chair of the dac working party on aid effectiveness, also joins us via a special interview to offer his perspective on where aid is heading. Sgdeedrms860010v9eagcs synthesis of findings and reco. Policy coherence for development and securitisation. The mfdr sourcebook on emerging good practice developed by the oecddac working party on aid effectiveness and donor practices presents concepts, tools and principles and gives examples of their application at national level, sector programmes and projects and in development agencies. Mfdr and, subsequently, the working party on aid effectiveness wpeff, as priority issues and actions for hlf3 are considered. The development assistance committee dac working party in aid evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral evaluation experts meet regularly.
The organisation for economic cooperation and developments oecd development assistance committee dac is a forum to discuss issues surrounding aid, development and poverty reduction in developing countries. Implementingtheparisdeclarationonaideffectiveness undp. Evaluation and aid effectiveness no 5 evaluation feedback. Global economy and development brookings institution.
The dac working party on aid effectiveness is a broad international partnership that has taken on a broader remit than that of simply improving development partner practices. Dac working party on aid effectiveness eighth meeting 57 july 2006 room document 6 role of aid information management systems in implementing the paris declaration on aid effectiveness at the country level. The dac working party on aid evaluation wpev has developed this glossary of key terms in evaluation and resultsbased management because of the need to clarify concepts and to reduce the terminological confusion frequently encountered in these a reas. Proposals developed by iati will be available to inform the. The dac working party on aid evaluation, successor of expert group on aid evaluation, which launched a series evaluation and aid effectiveness in 1999, was reorganized as the dac network on development evaluation dndc in 2003. Iati has been tasked by cluster c with developing reporting formats and definitions for sharing information about aid, drawing on the expertise of the. Clearly, flows at market or nearmarket terms cannot be seen as equivalent to highly concessional loans or outright grants. Dcddaceva20002 working party on aid evaluation draft. Interaction is represented on better aid coalition and dac working party on effectiveness.
The working party includes all 22 dac donors and the european. Talaat abdelmalek, chair, oecddac working party on aid. At the end of 2011 the high level forum on aid effectiveness was held in busan. Development assistance committee dac working party on development finance statistics fao proposal to amend the oecds creditor reporting system classification related to food security and agriculture in light of sdg goal 2 informal meeting of the working party on development finance statistics wpstat january 3031 2018, oecd boulogne. An informal meeting of the working party will take place on thursday 23rd from 15. The paris declaration on aid effectiveness roberto bissio i. Oecd dac as part of the working party on aid effectiveness wpeff5 week held in paris, france, 25 29 october 2010. The article focuses on the discourse of policy coherence for development promoted by the dac development assistance committee of the oecd organisation for economic cooperation and development, analysing it as the common vector of the two dimensions effectiveness and security.
Setting a new agenda for action effective aid by 2010. Dac working party on development finance statistics fao. The quality of official development assistance q u oda. It suggests that the paris declaration remains the basic frame of reference for aid effectiveness efforts in the. Development cooperation directorate dac working party on.
It sets out good practice in reporting and publishing data. Dcddaceffm20078prov working party on aid effectiveness. Working party on aid evaluation draft annotated agenda of the 33rd meeting the working party will meet on wednesday 22nd november from 09. The dac working party on aid effectiveness wpeff is engaged in facilitating donor efforts to enhance aid effectiveness in the related areas of harmonisation and alignment of donor practices, public financial management, procurement, development results and aid untying. Its members meet to improve evaluation practice and to learn lessons from development cooperation activities and experiences. For many countries receiving aid, the effectiveness of aid is one crucial factor for achieving. The workshop, which was widely attended by wpeff members, included two panel sessions and a number of smaller breakout groups that were held.