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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We need to find a solution to this problem, so that aid levels will match the gravity of the situation, rather than the media attention in donor countries.

He therefore called again on UNHCR, the relevant aid agencies and donor countries to continue providing humanitarian and development assistance to refugees and displaced persons in his country.

Aid and donor based financing in the area of film making need to recognize the importance of the distribution and marketing stages in addition to the production stage.

Development aid has to be financed in real terms, or in a reputable manner, not by spending central bank money or by jeopardizing the IMF s financial integrity. Aid should preferably be financed out of donor countries national budgets in a transparent, democratically accountable way.

As I have already observed, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals continues to be determined by challenges posed by the debt burden and low disbursements of donor aid.

Moreover, the international environment can also be made more conducive to developing country enterprises through better coordinating aid and the activities of the main multilateral and bilateral donor organizations.

It could be developed and refined into a model similar to the Donor Assistance Database (DAD) being used to track tsunami aid and should follow a results based approach.

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.

In that context, Slovenia, one of the 10 new EU members and a new donor, committed itself to attaining the target of 0.33 per cent of GDP for development aid.

With regard to donor recipient cooperation, aid should be demand driven, and technical support could be offered to recipients for developing and implementing nationally owned, MDG based poverty reduction strategies.

Germany, where combined public and private aid for tsunami victims has reached 1.1 billion (making it the largest international donor), says that it would like its aid to be used to foster peace settlements. A worthy goal, but successful models do not come readily to mind.

A donor visit to the Tindouf refugee camps was facilitated by WFP, UNHCR and MINURSO from 16 to 19 March 2005 with the participation of 11 donor country representatives, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and various NGOs.

The United States causes half the total shortfall. If the US lived up to its pledge of 0.7 of GNP in donor aid, it would be giving 75 billion per year.

Aid should be linked to the local needs identified in countries' national strategies and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, not to the interests of suppliers in donor countries.

The aim of this process was to better integrate international assistance and reform efforts, enhance the leadership role of the Palestinian Authority in aid management and ensure more effective donor coordination.

As noted by the Millennium Project report (A 59 727), a factor inhibiting growth is the quality of financial aid given, indicating that bilateral aid is often of low quality, unpredictable, targeted away from long term investment and driven by separate donor objectives, rather than coordinated to support a national plan.

Such new funding needs to be non debt creating, additional to existing development aid flows and channelled directly to recipient countries and, where appropriate, should utilize public private partnerships seeded by donor funding.

Progress has been less than satisfactory in raising awareness in donor countries about the link between what is generally seen in donor countries as a valuable social and economic contribution to society and as local traditions of voluntary self help and mutual aid in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

New and growing demands on its services result not only from the overall pursuit of the United Nations development agenda, but also from the specific new aid modalities being introduced by the donor community.

More and better aid was needed, delivered through real partnerships between donor and developing countries, along with fairer trade and a focus on the special needs of Africa, in order to empower the poor.

Band Aid, Live Aid.

Many individual donor countries have declared that they are now prepared to increase their financial support for smallholder agriculture, but are searching for the appropriate mechanisms to do so. The current aid structures are inadequate.

We highly value the assistance of the donor community, including grant aid, soft loans and foreign investment, such as the assistance of the World Bank in the construction of the Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam.