Donor countries have increased their direct bilateral aid and their multilateral aid for HIV AIDS.

Moreover, donor countries are increasingly earmarking aid, with no guarantee that their aid giving preferences match the needs of recipients.

Russia has become a more active donor country in providing emergency humanitarian aid.

Mechanisms for aid coordination Improving donor policies, for example, the continued reduction of tied aid requirements and recommendations for strengthening technical assistance activities Corruption and aid effectiveness

The need for greater multi donor coordination and the untying of aid was emphasized.

With the support of donor countries, donor agencies and partner countries, the Declaration aimed to dramatically improve the quality and effectiveness of aid.

Aid harmonization and improved donor coordination overall would increase the effectiveness and impact of interventions.

Donor countries should remember that development aid cannot become a pretext for uncalled for influence.

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Indeed, several participants viewed aid as still too donor driven and conditional streamlining conditionality was therefore necessary.

Fiscal restraint in industrialized countries is the principal reason, though the ratio of aid to donor countries apos budgets is small Information about aid is sometimes unbalanced.

On the average, aid remains at 25 cents out of every 100 of the donor countries' national income.

In addition to increasing nominal ODA levels, efforts have been made to enhance aid effectiveness through better harmonization of aid procedures and improved coordination of donor policies and procedures.

(c) Donor nations must adhere to high standards in regard to the grant equivalent content of their aid disbursements.

Awareness raising extends to donor countries, which are urged to consider support to local volunteerism in overseas aid programmes.

The United States also affirmed that it did not accept international aid targets based on percentages of donor GNP.

52. Increased reliance of least developed countries on ODA contrasts sharply with the dwindling aid efforts of donor countries.

The most direct way to increase ODA volumes is to allocate increasing shares of donor countries' national budgets to aid.

While receiving financial aid from the developed countries, Kyrgyzstan itself is a donor of environmental services whose value increases yearly.

Restrictions on movement and declining donor support, however, required UNRWA to scale back its core emergency interventions, including food aid.

But while much has been given, there are many pledges of donor aid that have not materialized as they should.

The funding has usually come from aid budgets, but is administered either by the police agency of the donor country alone, or with an office in the foreign ministry or aid agency.

Sustained economic growth is likely to become increasingly challenging, as donor aid for post conflict needs is being gradually phased out.

The Union was already by far the world's largest donor of aid, and it is the major trade partner of poor countries.

Inward investment is sorely needed, and post conflict emergency aid needs to be followed up by longer term donor assistance and development.

(iii) Donor country Governments profiling Strategic Approach objectives as one important element of bilateral aid agency programming in support of sustainable development

The parties must make every effort to facilitate the work of United Nations agencies and partners in the donor and aid communities.

At the same time, partnerships with developed countries, donor agencies and other aid institutions have emerged in the form of triangular cooperation.

Furthermore, the United States did not accept international aid targets based on percentages of the gross national product (GNP) of donor countries.

Denmark will remain well above the 0.7 aid target and urges all donor countries to implement the goals decided by the summit.

Continuing efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of aid are also needed, with the full involvement of both donor and recipient countries.

Three non governmental organizations, Norwegian People s Aid, Handicap International and HELP, have undertake a number of donor funded clearance, survey and training operations.

Promotion of donor collaboration the Partnership encourages and facilitates information sharing and aid harmonization among donors, including through its light reporting mechanism (see para.

Speakers welcomed the progress made earlier this year at Paris on the effectiveness of aid and increased flows of donor funding as budget support.

Its success depends largely upon changes in the donor recipient relationship, in particular as it relates to improving the role and impact of aid.

As a land locked country, it has long been dependent on the aid of donor States and is one of the least developed countries.

24. Confronted with scarce flows, donor Governments have of late addressed a great deal of attention to the most effective use of such aid.

(c) Make aid more effective through promotion of African ownership of the programmes and projects being assisted and through better coordination of donor assistance

Poverty reduction strategy papers have added the most value in countries where government leadership and aid management were already strong and had less effect in countries with weak public sector capacity or with donor dominated aid relations.10

25. As ODA has become more limited, donor Governments have increasingly examined ways to increase the potency of their aid programmes and curtail overhead expenses.

27. There also seems to be a trend towards strengthening the coherence of aid and other policies of donor Governments vis à vis developing countries.

Several speakers called for donor countries to come to the aid of other States with limited capacity and resources, including through the cancellation of foreign debt.

70. Decisions on how aid should be used and on what terms should be subject to agreement among all parties concerned, in donor and recipient countries.

In follow up to the March 2005 Paris High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, donor countries should set, by September 2005, timetables and monitorable targets for aligning their aid delivery mechanisms with partner countries' Millennium Development Goals based national strategies.

The United States of America was the world's largest donor of food aid, having given US 2.6 billion for that purpose, and its Government had pledged a further US 674 million worth of aid in response to humanitarian emergencies in Africa.