What is Aid Effectiveness

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What is Aid Effectiveness

• To ensure that aid is used for the purpose for
  which it was given by ensuring
• Minimum transaction cost
• It is predictable
• No conditions attached
• Well coordinated
• Well accounted for

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PARIS DECLARATION

• Paris Declaration 2nd March 2005
• Ministers of developed and developing countries,
  responsible for promoting development and heads
  of multilateral and bilateral development
  institutions
• Declared and resolved to take far-reaching and
  monitorable actions to reform the ways they
  deliver and manage aid as they look ahead to the
  review of the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs
  later that year

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Why is Gender Equality relevant to Aid
Effectiveness?

• Gender equality and womens empowerment are at
  the centre of our development challenges.
  Ensuring GE and WE would lead to a rapid rate of
  development
• Gender Equality in aid effectiveness is necessary
  for women to have equal economic, social, and
  political opportunities.
• Aid disbursement must secure opportunities for
  women to contribute to public policy process and
  empower them through increased access to economic
  activities, education and legal rights

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Gender in Aid Effectiveness contd

• A systematic Aid effectiveness framework can
  address the needs for equity of access to
  opportunities and assets and provide the enabling
  environment to rectify imbalances and promote the
  participation of women and other vulnerable
  groups in development processes

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Some findings from the EC/UN Partnership Study

• Inadequate Funding
• Lack of Accountability Framework
• No Gender Representation during development and
  aid dialogues
• Gender Equality is not a National Priority even
  though it has signed commitments
• Very Limited Gender Disaggregated Data

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The New Aid Modalities(Aid administration/instrum
ents)

• Global Funds
• General Budget Support (MDBS in Ghana)
• Sector Wide Approach (SWAp)
• Project support
• Technical Assistance/Cooperation)

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GRB

• GRB being piloted
• To ensure efficiency in the development process
• To ensure that aid is effectively used and that
  funds are allocated to areas most needed
• To ensure that funds are available to implement
  the international commitments on gender
• To ensure that the rights of citizens are
  upheld...

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Learning from others experiences

• Captured in 2008 budget statement
• Technical Committee established
• Roadmap for GRB prepared
• Budget guidelines engendered
• Manuals developed
• Training and capacity building for sectors
• Technical assistance during budget processes
• On going initial evaluation
• Data production

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