Capacity Development

Aid Effectiveness

The current financial crunch and questions around levels of official development assistance (ODA) only highlight the significance of aid quality, its transparent and accountable management and judicious use and allocation, i.e. contribution to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and responding to increasing demands for accountability and transparency in ODA management. Country ownership and South/South cooperation are the guiding principles in this work.

In this regard, the team fulfils four integrated functions:

• Support the development of national policy frameworks, institutional capacities for effective aid management and mutual accountability at the country level;
• Facilitate country engagement in the regional and global aid effectiveness discourse;
• Ensure the UN development system is better equipped to support countries in adapting to changing aid modalities and development finance contexts; and
• Provide a systematic and accessible body of evidence and tools to support capacity development for aid effectiveness for development practitioners