Aid Management Policies, Strategies and Action Plans
Through the Paris Declaration, more than 100 countries and 30 international organisations signed up to a common set of aid-effectiveness principles and commitments. However, these principles needed to be adapted to different country conditions. Many developing countries and their donor partners have adopted localised versions of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action, which include context-specific goals, priorities and definitions, and detailed implementation plans.
While the Paris principles are universal in application, the practical challenges of improving aid effectiveness are unique to each country context. Each developing country should work with its development partners to define its own pathway towards more effective aid, based on analysis of what problems need to be solved, and a set of priority actions that build upon existing structures and processes. In addition, the Paris agenda leaves plenty of scope for developing countries to define their own preferences, in terms of aid allocation processes, mix of modalities, coordination processes and so on.
Many countries have found that an aid policy, aid-effectiveness strategy or action plan is a useful tool for adapting the Paris agenda to their needs and circumstances.