Aid Effectiveness Print
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) and the Surveys on Monitoring the Paris Declaration have all clearly recognised the vital role that parliaments play in enhancing the effectiveness of aid, and in achieving progress towards the targets set in the Paris Declaration.

However, while parliaments should have a vital role in furthering the aid effectiveness agenda, parliamentarians have not been thus far systematically sensitized or engaged in the debate. The Paris Declaration was signed in 2005 by representatives from governments and donor agencies, who did not have a responsibility to discuss this in their parliaments.

Within the monitoring process, parliaments were not involved in the 2006 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration, and nor were they involved in the 2008 Survey. Parliaments are also not mentioned in the Paris Declaration Indicators or Targets for 2010, which precludes a systematic monitoring of parliamentary action to increase aid effectiveness from being carried out by the organisers. Thus, in general, parliamentarians have not been adequately recognised or embraced in this process.

Continuing to deepen the engagement of parliamentarians, particularly in partner countries, in the debate on aid effectiveness is essential in order to both keep them adequately informed about developments, and facilitate concrete action towards the achievement of the goals outlined in the Paris Agenda and AAA in the run up to the 2011 Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) and beyond.


Programme: Engaging Parliamentarians in the Aid Effectiveness Debate 2008


The first phase of this programme has served to engage parliamentarians across African and in Europe on the aid effectiveness debate in its initial stage. During this time (2007-2008), PGA, PNoWB, NCGAP, CPC and AWEPA have worked to sensitize parliamentarians from across the globe with each partner capitalizing on their respective geographical areas of expertise.

AWEPA began to sensitise parliamentarians on isses of aid effectivness in 2007 during two regional seminars, the first in Nairobi at a regional seminar for East Africa and the second in Benin for West Africa. The programme target parliaments of countries that are signatories to the Paris Declaration.


 



Implementing partners


 cpc.png Canadian Parliamentary Centre (CPC)    pgaction.png Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
 nepad.png NEPAD Contact Group for African Parliamentarians (NCGAP)    pnowb.png Parliamentary Network of the World Bank (PnoWB)



Donors

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbiet (GTZ)   sida.png Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

 

Contact Details

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