Recently has been published the second report of the monitoring of the Paris Declaration by the DAC. 54 countries, have contributed to this second edition. The results of the evaluation are of enormous importance for the Accra conference next week. These results reflect the steps forward, with regard to the base-line of 2005 (established by the first report). The general trend of the report indicates that the progress is uneven and fragmented. However there are some successes concerning the better management of the public financement in the developing countries, and a growing trend in reducing the tied aid as well as a greater coordination of the technical cooperation with the national programs. Nevertheless, three large areas continue with poor results on the agenda. Like that donors continue utilizing little national systems, the accountability remains in an embryonic state and the harmonization advances very slowly.
One of the conclusions of this report is that the South advances in some of its tasks (that imply nothing less than key areas of its public management), but the north continues its dispersion, lack of coordination, fragmented information and unpredictability of aid flows.
David Booth, researcher of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and one of the coordinators of the report of the Paris Declaration monitoring, wrote recently about the perverse incentives in both sides of the relations of the aid. In this sense, to advance in the Paris agenda, it is needed a clear political dialogue, where the shared interest find a priority place.
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