International development agencies, as well as government partners, agreed on five principles that aim at making aid more effective through the Paris Declaration (PD) in 2005. These Principles include ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability. The principles aim at making aid effective and predictable. Most importantly, donors agreed to coordinate their activities with other donors to reduce aid fragmentation. Contrarily, some have argued that both donors and recipient have embraced Paris "mainly in form, rather than in substance" and that the PD is dying (Brown, 2016). As a recipient country itself, Ghana has been one of the active players in ensuring aid effectiveness in accordance with the Paris ...