How to ensure that Aid for Trade is effective?
Aid for Trade (AFT) delivery will be guided by the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It commits donors, recipient countries, and international agencies to the following key principles: country ownership; mutual accountability; alignment of aid to national development strategies; effective donor coordination; harmonisation of donor procedures; adoption of programme-based aid modalities; managing for results; transparency; and predictable and multi-year commitments. Work on applying these principles in aid delivery is still at an initial stage and will constitute a learning exercise for all stakeholders. The OECD’s commitment to promoting AFT effectiveness translated in autumn 2007 into the organisation of three regional practitioners’ fora. These meetings gave an opportunity to examine the results of the self-assessment questionnaires that were sent out during summer 2007. These questionnaires were designed to evaluate whether existing AFT programmes in developing countries w
