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Part 2 of four
A question about paperwork
The Paris Declaration of 2005 reorganised the forms rather than the money: whose plan the aid follows, whose systems it passes through, and how many reports a ministry files for it.

4 pieces in this part
- Aid effectiveness was a question about paperworkThe 2005 Paris Declaration was about alignment, harmonisation and untying — the administrative plumbing rather than the money.Read →
- The five principles, as the text defines themOwnership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results, mutual accountability — each with an indicator attached.Read →
- Paris, and the twelve indicators it setThe monitoring survey is the reason there is any evidence about whether the agenda worked.Read →
- Who owns the plan, and who agreed to stop askingOwnership means a country’s own strategy leads, which requires donors to give up parallel reporting — the part that proved hardest.Read →
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