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Evaluation of the Paris Declaration
In response to the Paris Declaration committment of conducting an independent cross-country evaluation, it has been decided to conduct a two-phase evaluation, commissioned and overseen by an international Reference Group, comprising members of the DAC Evaluation Network, partner country members of the WP-EFF and other interested countries, and representatives of civil society. The Evaluation comprises of eight country-level evaluations of the implementation of the Paris Declaration principles, and eleven donor evaluations focusing on changes in donor policies and guidelines.
The first phase of the Evaluation complements the international monitoring work with a qualitative assessment of progress and obstacles in implementing the Paris Declaration in its first two years. It focuses on ways to strengthen the performance of both countries and aid providers, and prepares the ground for a second phase evaluation, to be carried out by 2011, which will focus on the effects of better aid in advancing development objectives.
The findings and recommendations of the Evaluation will be of interest to more than one hundred authorities which have endorsed the Paris Declaration, and to actors which have a stake in ensuring more effective aid - governments of partner countries, development agencies, new and emerging donors, civil society, private sector actors in development, and journalists and opinion leaders, among others.
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