The Paris Declaration's Aid Effectiveness targets 2010: progress and evaluation

Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação InternacionalThe Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is a new arrangement to manage and deliver foreign aid; a project to target and align this aid to institutional reform processes in recipient countries; and an exercise in monitoring the effectiveness of those two preceding objectives. The declaration is divided between implementation and monitoring of these objectives. Over a hundred participants including all OECD-DAC members, multilateral institutions, and 60 partner countries signed up to the declaration in 2005. Each signature agreed to 50 partnership commitments organised around five key principles: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results, and mutual accountability. Twelve indictors were outlined to monitor the progress toward these commitments. Each indicator has been given a target to stimulate a results-orientated plan towards aid effectiveness. This thesis analyses the structure that has been constructed to implement as well as monitor the 50 commitments, 12 indicators of progress and 12 accompanying targets of the Paris Declaration. The thesis is divided in three with a chapter to assess (i) the origins and foundations of the new aid policy objectives outlined in the declaration; (ii) the framework(s) that have been developed to implement the declaration; and (iii) the monitoring and evaluation process that is design to ensure effective results