While ODA will be the focus, civil society and foundations have also, respectively, developed effectiveness principles that could be introduced into the work.
They have helped create the only international process with any real teeth in terms of improving aid effectiveness for development, and the five effectiveness principles first articulated in Paris are now common currency throughout the development industry.
Lorenzo Bernasconi Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation New York, US Donor support to leverage private investment – and private finance generally – needs to be compliant with development effectiveness principles, and there must be robust environmental and social safeguards.
Third, going beyond global discussions and processes, develop the trouble-shooting function to respond to particular challenges as they emerge, especially at the country level, going beyond stats and communiques, and applying aid effectiveness principles where it matters.
In a report, published in 2012, the European Network on Debt and Development warned: "Do not implement new results-based approaches unless they respond to the demands of recipient country governments in consultation with civil society and parliaments, and have been designed to meet aid effectiveness principles.
It should be designed to ensure country ownership and rapid disbursement of funds, fully respecting the aid effectiveness principles agreed in Accra, and facilitate the participation of private foundations, businesses, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in this historic effort.
The resource versus risk-control effectiveness principles formally enter in optimization problems where the cost or the burden for the plant staff is to be minimized while the risk or the availability of the safety equipment is constrained to be at a given level, and vice versa.
The aid effectiveness principles set out in the Paris Declaration can help us retain this flexibility, while ensuring that the design of new instruments is informed by the lessons we have learned from the past 50 years of development cooperation.
Some programs report national figures rather than that specifically for grants, as the Global Fund, in line with aid effectiveness principles articulated in the 2005 Paris [17], supports country programs, in many countries providing significant proportion of program funding [10].
