C. Meetings with the donor community

Support from donors

Recommendation 16 called for stronger donor relations and for grantees to be invited to donor meetings.

Donors also increased their funding levels.

(d) Interest on donor funds

The European Commission remains the biggest donor for Burundi, and it carries out a multi pronged programme, envisaging a possible 20 per cent increase in its assistance to Burundi.

Haiti's main aid donors threatened to cut off aid.

The main Western donors included Italy and Sweden.

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Donor assistance to population activities

(e) Better targeting by donors of assistance needs and delivery through the availability of a coordinated information exchange mechanism (automated donors assistance mechanism (ADAM))

Ninety percent of the donors registered are German.

Donor funding is being sought for this purpose.

But donors need to avoid some common mistakes.

They now have a chance to make good on their word.

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

He also attached importance to dialogue with donors.

The disposal of the interest income is governed by agreements with donors.

The community based approach introduced in Ukraine has met with an enthusiastic response from donors, demonstrating that it is possible to overcome the donor fatigue surrounding Chernobyl.

Contributions from the largest 10 donors in 2004 to regular resources were nearly eight times greater than those of the next tier of 10 major donors.

CTAG has coordinated diplomatic, donor cooperation, and donor assistance efforts

Unapplied amounts are being consistently followed up with the donors and the country offices.

Reform efforts would play a crucial role in maintaining donor support.

Expand country led efforts to streamline donor procedures and practices

28. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner to further explore ways and means to broaden its donor base, so as to achieve greater burden sharing by reinforcing cooperation with governmental donors, non governmental donors and the private sector

Donors have long preached the importance of a funding vehicle such as the Global Fund one that is needs driven, relies on local input, and promotes donor coordination.

It monitored and analysed emerging socio economic developments and donor interventions and advised the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations and the donor community on economic development priorities and strategies.

Burden sharing also implies that non G 8 donors should contribute.

By 2002, donor assistance was 3.2 billion.

The Office will study the feasibility of adopting a basic template for global agreements in consultation with donors.

Our partnerships with multilateral donors, primarily the World Food Programme, is developing vigorously.

Establish an effective partnership of donor and recipient countries based on mutual trust, accountability and donor coordination in support of country goals.

Promotion of donor collaboration the Partnership encourages and facilitates information sharing and aid harmonization among donors, including through its light reporting mechanism (see para.

Strategic partnerships with key traditional and non traditional donors will be strengthened, and continued efforts will be made to utilize donor funds efficiently and effectively, using sound results based management principles and minimizing transaction costs.

Some speakers said that the imbalance between contributions to regular and other resources needed to be corrected, and called on donors to address the imbalance through predictable multi year pledges.

Everyone agrees that recent pledges of a 1 billion in aid are a sign that donors are ready to show Burundians that peace has a dividend.

Welcoming also the establishment of the Multi Donor Voluntary Trust Fund on Tsunami Early Warning Arrangements in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, which will contribute to setting up an early warning system and to building up the capacity of the region in dealing with natural disasters,

CTAG donors are now actively seeking to address the identified needs.

Coordinated donor assistance to help countries in the Western Balkans to assess and improve airport security.

It urges international donors to assist ECOWAS States to address that need.

Aid harmonization and improved donor coordination overall would increase the effectiveness and impact of interventions.

I again appeal to donors to meet these requirements without further delay.

Traditional major donors have maintained consistently high levels of support.

Public investment and donor support are also important in this regard.

We encourage international donors to further support the African Union's efforts, as appropriate.