The Group of Eight Summit in Gleneagles made substantial commitments on aid volumes and debt.

It is not clear whether these resources are additional to overall future aid commitments by donors or are simply shifted from other allocations within the same aid budget.

Without accountability, development performance will not improve, and without performance, international commitments and increased aid cannot be sustained.

The fulfilment of the aid commitments and the principles and targets in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness would be a major breakthrough in international cooperation, particularly for sub Saharan Africa.

Its unique feature would be to front load aid flows through the issuance of bonds guaranteed by participating Governments that will allow aid commitments to be spent before they are budgeted.

Africa's development partners would need to meet their commitments to significantly increase aid flows in a predictable and coherent manner.

Bilateral donors and multilateral agencies significantly increased their aid commitments for trade related technical assistance and capacity building in 2003.

In short, the Summit had encouraged Member States to make major commitments in the areas of ownership, aid and debt.

In that regard, it was urgent that the commitments made in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness should be fulfilled.

For example, more wealthy States have made commitments on the provision of aid to States and people in developing countries.

Others called attention to the recent achievements in raising development funds worldwide and the current momentum in aid commitments by donors.

We welcome commitments to enhance the quality of aid that are based on a recognition of the needs of recipient countries.

In that connection, they expected from their traditional partners stronger partnership commitments, especially with regard to aid, trade and migration management.

For example, the international community is increasing commitments of aid resources and has begun to explore innovative approaches for development assistance.

44. Welcomes efforts and initiatives to enhance the quality of aid and to increase its impact, including the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and calls for concrete, effective and timely action in implementing all agreed commitments on aid effectiveness, with clear monitoring and deadlines

International commitments on aid, debt and trade issues for developing countries are essential to implement for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

However, some representatives questioned the opportunity of a global time frame and called for a focus on aid achievements rather than on commitments.

The countries of the North must fulfil their commitments in matters of trade, debt reduction and enhancing the quality of aid and good practices.

It was regrettable that development organizations had cut their aid to Africa the commitments made at Beijing would never be fulfilled at that rate.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

There is an urgent need to honour and even go beyond the commitments entered into with regard to aid, access to international trade and debt reduction.

Export subsidies need to be eliminated by a credible end date, and disciplines elaborated on parallel commitments in food aid, export credits and state trading enterprises.

Band Aid, Live Aid.

Kuwait also calls upon the developed countries to honour their previous commitments in offering aid and to consider substantial reduction in the debts owed by developing countries.

These commitments include significant increases in debt relief and aid. While there has been progress on implementing debt relief measures, the international community must follow through on the other part of its pledge, by delivering increased aid and promoting its better use.

After commending the commitments made by donors to increase aid by around 130 billion a year by 2010, including doubling the amount of aid to sub Saharan Africa over the same period, he urged the international community to explore innovative sources of financing.

Our aid is effective aid.

Aid us, lord, aid us.

This would be more than a technical exercise of periodically publishing figures on aid commitments and disbursements, an exercise that many organizations, including the United Nations, already undertake.

A large number of participants stressed that funds from innovative sources should be additional to current aid volumes and commitments and should not be used as a substitute.

Kenya called on the international community to meet its financial commitments under the Convention and to aid developing countries with the costs incurred in fulfilling their reporting obligations.

It is projected that OECD DAC aid to least developed countries will further increase in 2006, in the light of the commitments made by individual donor countries.59 The Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held from 28 February to 2 March 2005, also signalled the determination of donors to improve aid effectiveness by monitoring progress on ownership, aid alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability.

I call on the donor countries to meet their commitments undertaken at different international conferences, including in Madrid, Brussels and, most recently, Jordan, to provide financial aid to Iraq.

A. Non food aid B. Food aid

Reconstruction aid to improve infrastructure, promote start up companies, and reactivate micro and small enterprises, services, mining, and other sectors, and to improve agricultural yields and irrigation, should start right away and should be the main focus of international aid commitments. Laissez faire will not do it.

Equally important is that all countries live up to the commitments on aid effectiveness, to our agreements from Monterrey and to our promises to find new ways of financing development.

Norway is fully committed to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and we are in the process of reviewing our procedures to ensure that we can deliver on those commitments.

C. Meeting aid targets and improving aid coordination

The Facility would be designed to provide a rapid increase in official assistance through innovative financing arrangements that would allow Governments' future aid commitments to be expended before they are budgeted.

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Moreover, strategies should be formulated to increase the aid given by donors to the assistance programmes to reinvigorate the commitments they had made at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

Handing out aid, shooting back, handing out aid, shooting back.