Global Activities
To facilitate country
level implementation, bilateral and multilateral agencies are
actively collaborating on key harmonization themes at the global
level, with input from several partner countries.
In May
2003, the DAC created the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and
Donor Practices (WP-EFF) to promote, support, and monitor progress
on harmonization and alignment, with input from several partner
countries. It has a broader multilateral participation and mandate
than its predecessor (the Task Force on Donor Practices) that covers
public financial management, procurement, and managing for results
as well. It maintains close linkages to harmonization work
undertaken in other bodies such as the United Nations (UN) and
European Union (EU). In addition to the bilateral agencies and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), and World Bank, which are already participating
actively as observers, the WP-EFF has several other
participants: the African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development
Bank (AsDB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and Strategic
Partnership with Africa (SPA). While retaining the importance of
bilateral partnerships, this configuration of the Working Party
enables the WP-EFF to serve as the locus for maintaining the
overview on the different strands of the harmonization and alignment
agenda, establishing priorities, and carrying out cross-cutting
work.
The multilateral development banks (MDBs) have
technical working groups on financial management, procurement,
environment assessments, and analytic work, and to focus on
implementation of the harmonization agenda. The MDBs collaborate
closely with the WP-EFF in technical areas of common interest.
