Aid Principles

The Aid Principles established under the Paris Declaration and Accra Agreements are as follows:

Ownership:   Developing countries set their own strategies for poverty reduction, improve their institutions and tackle corruption.
 
Alignment:   Donor countries align behind these objectives and use local systems.
 
Harmonisation:   Donor countries coordinate, simplify procedures and share information to avoid duplication.
 
Results:   Developing countries and donors shift focus to development results and results get measured.
 
Mutual Accountability:   Donors and partners are accountable for development results.
 
Predictability:   Donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid to partner countries.
 
Country systems:   Partner country systems will be used to deliver aid as the first option, rather than donor systems.
 
Conditionality:   Donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country’s own development objectives.
 
Untying:   Donors will relax restrictions that prevent developing countries from buying the goods and services they need from whomever and wherever they can get the best quality at the lowest price.