Making sure that aid is used better and more effectively is as important as increasing it.

A key issue in development finance is aid effectiveness.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness provides an excellent framework for developing and deepening cooperation.

What is just as important, if not more so, is the effectiveness of aid.

It is important that developed countries ensure aid predictability and aid effectiveness through the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

A core issue is the need to improve the effectiveness of aid and to focus it on poverty reduction.

(b) ODA following guidelines for aid effectiveness applicable to both donor and partner countries, such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and particularly of ODA being more predictable and harmonized

The principles set forth in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness of March 2005 needed to be implemented.

In addition to increasing nominal ODA levels, efforts have been made to enhance aid effectiveness through better harmonization of aid procedures and improved coordination of donor policies and procedures.

The aid effectiveness agenda was becoming a blueprint for donors and partners to implement on the basis of strong national ownership and responsibility.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in March 2005, is a positive development in this respect.

In that regard, it was urgent that the commitments made in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness should be fulfilled.

It is imperative this time that we ensure the full implementation of our pledges, as we must implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

The review has three main goals first, to mainstream the reform agenda into the core of the aid coordination process secondly, to ensure a more central role for the PA in aid management and coordination and, thirdly, to make the aid coordination structures more effective in responding to needs.

Our experience demonstrates that aid can be most effective when provided as direct budgetary support for nationally designed development projects.

The call for increased aid to Africa must be accompanied by a commitment by the African Governments to ensure the efficiency of its use.

10 See the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability , on the more recent trends in this domain.

National plans for gender equality and national strategies to end violence against women must be made part of the aid effectiveness agenda.

CEB members note that UNDG has approved an action plan as a follow up to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

In the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the European Union had committed itself to making its aid more effective including by supporting developing countries' own priorities and systems whenever possible.

Within the framework of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a number of measures have been agreed that will improve the effectiveness of aid and strengthen recipient ownership.

Although some progress had been made in aid effectiveness, some United Nations agencies could be more active in ensuring adherence to the principles of harmonization and simplification.

The fulfilment of the aid commitments and the principles and targets in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness would be a major breakthrough in international cooperation, particularly for sub Saharan Africa.

Value has now been added through the matrix of goals and indicators set forth in the resolution adopted at the second High level Forum on Joint Progress Toward Enhanced Aid Effectiveness.

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The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

This evolving new thrust of aid reflects a much greater understanding and recognition of the conditions of aid effectiveness and of what works and what does not work in domestic policy reform.

The commitment to increase ODA to Africa in the next five years would do much to bridge the financing gaps and the implementation of the recent Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness should be a priority.

The aim of this process was to better integrate international assistance and reform efforts, enhance the leadership role of the Palestinian Authority in aid management and ensure more effective donor coordination.

Japan is not only increasing the volume of its ODA but also improving its quality and effectiveness based on the action plan for implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

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Aid led vision has never worked. Vision led aid can work but such aid is not always available.

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Aid provided in response to natural or man made disasters is the most familiar form of this type of assistance.

Dark bars represents aid to sub Saharan Africa light bars, aid to North Africa. The aid is in net disbursement terms, at current dollar values.

We have given much thought to this subject in the various follow up meetings to the Monterrey Conference held by the Economic and Social Council and the High level Forums on Joint Progress Toward Enhanced Aid Effectiveness in Rome and Paris.

The actions proposed in the report respond to and are consistent with United Nations reform efforts, the triennial comprehensive policy review of the operational activities for the development of the United Nations system, and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

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We applaud the greater pledges for increased aid.

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