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Eurodad´s 2008 Paris Survey Analysis

03 September 2008

Eurodad's quick analysis of new OECD Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration (to be launched in Accra)

The OECD will launch its new Paris Monitoring survey on aid effectiveness in Accra. It is already online and can be consulted here.  In 2006 it did its first survey (based on 2005 data) which provided a baseline against which the new results can be compared.  The Paris monitoring survey in 2006 was done in 33 countries.  This year it was done in 54 countries.  Therefore data is presented in the survey, both for the 33 countries and the 54 countries separately, in order to allow comparison against the baseline using the former.

Despite CSO concerns about many of these targets and the way that they have been measured (unclear definitions facilitating horse-trading and negotiations of results, particularly in the first round of the survey, some of the data can be useful for examining how European governments have changed the way they provide their aid as a result of the Paris Declaration.

Eurodad has compared in particular European donors against each other in terms of their aid predictability, the amount to which they use country systems, the amount of aid they spend as budget support, and the amount of aid they provide through “programme-based approaches”.  One indicator that we have particularly not included is the one on “coordinated technical assistance”.  This is because the text of the report suggests that this data, despite looking very positive, does not reflect a positive picture at all in reality.  Eurodad believes that this indicator in particular suffers from both being not clearly defined and from over-positive reporting.

To read the rest of the summary please click on the link below titled: "2008 Paris Survey Analysis"

Eurodad brief analysis of OECD Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration [2007]

Paris Survey 

Please see the elaborated tables
 –one per each Accra indicator -  on EU countries and EU average performances as for the 2008 PD progress report. On average the EU score  better (6-2) than all the other donors as for the PD targets. Please feel free to use it for your analysis – apparently Greece did not take part into the Survey. Click HERE to see the tables.

Key Links

Informe de seguimiento a la Declaración de París: ¿Quién levantará la palanca?

Turning the Tables Report 

2008 Paris Survey Analysis : 201 Kb