Roundtable 9: The Changing Aid Architecture and Impact on Aid Effectiveness

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Roundtable 9 focused on identifying how countries can manage assistance from all sources in order to attain maximum development results.

• Countries welcome the growing diversity of providers of assistance, and see South-South and triangular cooperation, including at regional level, as highly complementary to traditional aid.
  
• Countries look for very similar things from all sources of assistance: responsiveness and speed, untying and transparency, predictability, and more broadly respect for the principles of the Paris Declaration.
  
• Global program funds also have many positive achievements. When new high-profile issues arise, such as climate change or the food and energy crises, reform and adaptation of existing institutions should be the first priority.
  
• More work is needed on such issues such as sustainability and subsidiarity and the role of funding of civil society organizations within national and local strategies.

Co-Chairs:

Background resources:

• Global funds
• Emerging donors
• IFI governance