In 2001, Uganda pledged to increase national spending on health to at least 15% of the national budget in alignment with the Abuja Declaration at the summit of African Heads of State [ 16, 17].
Among these were the Roll Back Malaria Partnership established in 1998, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) created in 2002, and the Paris Declaration on aid alignment and harmonization agreed in 2005.
This conforms to the Paris Declaration, which encourages 'increasing alignment of aid with partner countries' priorities, systems, and procedures and helping the strengthening of their capacities' (Paris Declaration, 2005).
Despite the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, harmonization and alignment of donor funding has not been optimal, and donor assistance for financing consumables such as medicines are highly debated (WHO 2004c).
The alignment of Clinton's Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
Initiated by the Paris Declaration, evaluating aid effectiveness includes five principles: ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness emphasised the importance of ownership, alignment and harmonisation [ 20].
The 2005 Paris Declaration spelled out five key principles of aid effectiveness ownership, alignment, harmonization, results, and mutual accountability [ 1] which have received further support through subsequent meetings in Accra (2008) and Busan (2011).
The Aid Effectiveness Agenda has roots that extend well before the 2005 declaration of the Paris Principles, with their emphasis on ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability [ 1].
Two of the five principles in the Declaration are particularly important to mention here: national ownership and alignment [ 38].
