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

Aid coordination and harmonization were described by many speakers as crucial factors in improving aid effectiveness.

A key issue in development finance is aid effectiveness.

He also stressed the importance of initiatives to enhance the quality of aid, including the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

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

more effective means to ensure the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid.

9. Encourages further efforts to improve aid effectiveness, and invites the next World Bank Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on aid effectiveness to ensure the full participation of developing countries in future work on aid effectiveness

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

Many ministers underlined the importance of sound public management to achieve aid effectiveness.

His country, one of the most aid dependent countries in Africa, put a high premium on improving aid effectiveness.

Since the 2002 Monterrey Conference, there had been renewed focus on aid effectiveness and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness provided a framework to ensure the quality of aid.

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

An increase in assistance would go hand in hand with an international effort to enhance aid effectiveness.

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

It had adopted a new approach to enhance the effectiveness of foreign aid utilization in consultation with its development partners aimed at bringing coherence to their policies, practices and procedures for channelling aid.

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

The effectiveness of ODA was linked to the way recipients used that aid.

(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

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 situation, aid effectiveness should apply to both developed and developing countries.

Evidence showed that aid worked best where policies and governance were good.

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

These efforts gained momentum following the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness adopted in March 2005.

In this regard, we support the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the Marrakesh Declaration in order to enhance aid effectiveness for the benefit of the populations concerned.

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

Norway is fully committed to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and we are in the process of reviewing our procedures to ensure that we can deliver on those commitments.

In addition, increases in ODA must be accompanied by actions aimed at scaling up aid effectiveness.

However, its efficiency is threatened because it is impossible for it to reach the most affected areas for lack of fuel.

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

The Government of Japan urged the Palestinians to do their utmost to make their organization more effective in receiving aid and in implementing projects.

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.

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.

However, the shared donor recipient responsibility for improving the effectiveness of ODA has been an important concern of the aid community for many years.

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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.

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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.

We can also be pleased at the progress made during the high level forum held in March 2005 at Paris on the effectiveness of development aid.

Progress had taken place on both issues, as reflected in the deliberations of the Paris High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in March 2005.