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Implementing Paris and Accra: Latin America
15/01/2009 By Nils-Sjard Schulz
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| Government of El Salvador |
This FRIDE backgrounder describes the challenges and opportunities of adapting the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PD) in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) states. While the PD primarily addressed development policies and aid coordination in contexts of low development, LAC is still exploring the potentials and limitations of the Paris agenda for its middle-income countries (MIC). As participants in the OECD/DAC Monitoring Survey, conducted in 2006 and 2008, six LAC countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru) have accumulated very relevant lessons which this document aims to systematise and compare from a regional level.
Based on available OECD/DAC data and in-depth conversations with LAC representatives at the Accra HLF, the backgrounder analyses, firstly, the increasing homogeneity among LAC countries which facilitates the design of a regional agenda on aid effectiveness. It then describes from a comparative perspective the advances and obstacles in the implementation of the five PD principles in Latin America and the Caribbean. Finally, a series of recommendations for LAC decision-makers is identified at the regional and global level.
One of the main concerns of this document written by Nils-Sjard Schulz is to feed into a regional agenda for aid effectiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean which reinforces national capacities and could in turn influence aid-related international policies promoted thus far mainly by the OECD-DAC and the World Bank. At the global level, there is no doubt that greater influence by MIC on the aid effectiveness paradigm would highly benefit the new aid architecture, contributing national and regional experiences to a debate that is still very centred at donors’ headquarters.
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Keywords
Aid effectiveness Bolivia Colombia Dominican Republic Donors Harmonization Honduras Latin America & Caribbean Nicaragua PeruRelated publications
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Bio author: Nils-Sjard Schulz
Global governance of aid. Aid policy and effectiveness. Donor harmonisation. International division of labour. South-South cooperation.
