With external financial assistance, our development efforts could be accelerated.

11. Emphasizes the importance for African countries to continue to coordinate, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development processes

Assure human rights and security within the framework of the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.

Official development assistance

Population assistance as a proportion of official development assistance

10. Recognizes the need for African countries to continue to coordinate, in accordance with their respective national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development processes

9. Emphasizes the importance for African countries of continuing to coordinate, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance, including that provided by multilateral organizations, in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development processes

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Management of development assistance

But external help can do only so much.

10. Emphasizes the importance for African countries to continue to coordinate, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance, including that provided by multilateral organizations, in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development processes

Emphasizes the importance for African countries to continue to coordinate, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance, including that provided by multilateral organizations, in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development processes

External help is needed.

Young people are ready to work with their Governments to promote good governance, to find feasible ways to relieve the external debt of developing countries and to increase the effectiveness of development assistance.

37. Calls upon the United Nations development system to further support capacity building and capacity development of developing countries, upon their request, to effectively coordinate and evaluate the impact of external development assistance in line with national development plans and priorities

Increasing the amount and impact of official development assistance

Official development assistance (ODA) was seen as an essential mechanism for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and longer term development goals.

Innovative funding sources were a complement to ODA.

(b) Matching needs and offers of development assistance.

Delegates stressed the importance of national ownership of development programmes, the CCA UNDAF process and activities undertaken during the transition from relief to development, and coordination of external assistance by the recipient Government.

The economies of many developing countries have declined, making them victims of the inequality of the international trading system, the steady decline in official development assistance, their excessive foreign debt burden and low levels of investment.

4. Emphasizes that recipient Governments have the primary responsibility for coordinating, on the basis of national strategies and priorities, all types of external assistance, including that provided by multilateral organizations, in order to integrate effectively such assistance into their development process

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Official development assistance (ODA) is a term coined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD) to measure aid.

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Complementing the institutions and processes is the issue of resource mobilization and development assistance management including utilization, especially of ODA.

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

First, official development assistance (ODA) should be greatly increased.

We welcome the recent upward trend in disbursing official development assistance (ODA).

Here also, a great deal of analytical rigour is needed to mobilize ODA within the context of the Millennium Development Goals.

The Rome Declaration does not explicitly request that countries harmonize their development assistance with reference to the Millennium Development Goals.

On the one hand, there have been promising announcements in the areas of foreign debt and official development assistance.

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture and rural development, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Ensure that development assistance harmonization efforts are adapted to the country context and that donor assistance is aligned with the development priorities of the recipient

Deeply concerned by the low levels of official development assistance,

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

Thirdly, it is important to address the impediments to the effectiveness of development assistance.

The round table addressed the theme of ODA, innovative sources of financing and debt .

(b) double development assistance to Africa and improve its quality, inter alia, by channeling such increase through multilateral development institutions and by augmenting the budgetary support component of it

The United States established offices for women and gender issues in numerous offices and departments, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Labor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and the State Department and in the field of development assistance.

It is perhaps understandable that the original MDGs did not mention either internal or international migration.

In a globalized world, partnerships were clearly crucial, and additional resources had to be secured through external debt relief, an improved global trading system, increased ODA and both foreign direct investment and mobilization of domestic resources.

Sub theme 3 Official development assistance, innovative sources of finance and debt