The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness focuses on improvement of aid quality and its impact to the partner country, and to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how increased aid effectiveness contributes to meeting development objectives.
The first formal coordination of the Official Development Assistance (ODA), dates to the establishment of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - Directorate for Development Cooperation (OECD - DAC) in 1960, a forum where the largest bilateral donors could discuss matters related to the Aid efficiency and develop the guidelines related to further improvement of Aid effectiveness.
The initial coordination efforts were focused to monitoring the volume of the ODA, both bilateral and multilateral, and the countries to which it was directed. However, the practice has shown that this has not been enough. Accordingly, in the last decade the attention was mainly focused to the Aid effectiveness, through improved coordination between donors and partner countries, aid recipients.
The key event at the global level related to the effectiveness of international aid took place in March 2005, when over 100 representatives of donor and developing countries (partner countries), endorsed the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. They agreed to focus their efforts on improvement of effectiveness of development assistance directed to the realization of the global development goals.
The Paris Declaration focuses on improvement of aid quality and its impact to the partner country development through the application of the five Declaration’s key principles, Ownership, Alignment, Harmonization, Managing for results and Mutual accountability.
In order to monitor and measure the progress in the implementation of the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, 12 indicators are defined and 56 commitments originating from them.
OECD is responsible for monitoring of the implementation of the Paris Declaration principles at the global level, while each partner country accepted the obligation to regularly monitor its own progress in that area. In accordance with the mentioned, to date OECD conducted three global surveys (in 2006, 2008 and 2011).
Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially endorsed the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2010, accepting the obligation to undertake the activities on improvement of development aid effectiveness as well as regular monitoring of the progress achieved in this domain.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is formally added to the list of countries which acceded to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
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Baseline survey on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH – 2008
In order to assess the initial status, the Ministry of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010 had conducted the first survey on adherence to the Paris Declaration principles in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the 2008 as a baseline year. The results of the monitoring were published in the “Report on Baseline survey of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 2008”. Council of Ministers of BiH was informed about this Report on the 144th session that was held on February 24th 2011.
BiH participated in OECD Global monitoring of adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness -2010
In 2011, Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in OECD Global monitoring on adherence to the Paris Declaration principles, in order to monitor the progress achieved in 2010. The results of the monitoring were published in the Report „Effectiveness of Aid 2005-2010: Progress in implementation of the Paris Declaration- Chapter for Bosnia and Herzegovina“. Council of Ministers of BiH was informed about this Report on the 6th session held on May 3rd, 2012.
Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2011
At the end of 2012, Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH, in cooperation with representatives of competent institutions and members of Donor Coordination Forum (DCF), conducted the second survey on adherence to the principles of Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH for 2011. The findings of this survey were published by the Ministry in the „Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2011“. Council of Ministers of BiH was informed about this Report on the 43rd session held on March 26th, 2013.
Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2012
At the end of 2013, Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH, in cooperation with representatives of competent institutions and members of Donor Coordination Forum (DCF), conducted the third survey on adherence to the principles of Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH for 2012. The findings of this survey were published by the Ministry in the „Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2012“. Council of Ministers of BiH was informed about this Report on the 91st session held on April 16th, 2014..
Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2013
At the end of 2013, Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH, in cooperation with representatives of competent institutions and members of Donor Coordination Forum (DCF), conducted the third survey on adherence to the principles of ParisDeclaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH for 2012. The findings of this survey were published by the Ministry in the„Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2012“. Council of Ministers of BiH was informed about this Report on the 91stsession held on April 16th, 2014..
Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2014
During second half of 2015, Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH, in cooperation with representatives of domestic and international institutions – members of Donor Coordination Forum (DCF), conducted the fifth survey on adherence to the principles of Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH for 2014. The findings of the Survey were published by the Ministry, in the „Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH – 2014“. The BiH Council of Ministers was informed on this Report on its 39th session held on January 13, 2016.
Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH, 2015
During second half of 2016, Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH, in cooperation with representatives of domestic and international institutions – members of Donor Coordination Forum (DCF), conducted the seventh survey on adherence to the principles of Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH for 2015. The findings of the Survey were published by the Ministry, in the „Report on progress on adherence to the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in BiH – 2015“. The BiH Council of Ministers was informed on this Report on its 89th session held on January 25, 2017.
In accordance with collected data, the Report for 2015 shows certain degree of progress achieved in the previous period, although immeasurable according to the international defined assessment methodology. Further improvement of the implementation of the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains in focus in the next period, with special emphasis on the importance of joint actions and enhancement of synergy between institutions in BiH and donors, in order to achieve the sustainable socio-economic development in Bosnia and Herzegovina.