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Aid Effectiveness

The Global Partnership for Education uses the principles of aid effectiveness developed in the 2005 Paris Declaration to boost its impact and achieve results in the education sector.

Aid Effectiveness

In developing countries, the national government, international donor community, NGOs, national civil society, and other stakeholders are engaged in strengthening the education sector. With so many players operating with different rules and regulations, adequate coordination of all partners is essential to improve the effectiveness of education investments.

This is why the international development community has agreed on 5 principles, which the Global Partnership for Education uses as a foundation to make its education aid more effective in the following ways:

  • Country ownership: The Global Partnership for Education provides support to its developing country partners to design, implement, and monitor education plans. Partner governments provide adequate domestic financing for education and improve their country systems;
  • Alignment: Funding by the Global Partnership and the donors is aligned to the public financial management and procurement systems of the partner country;
  • Harmonization: the Global Partnership for Education encourages donors, multilateral organizations, and civil society organizations to coordinate their work, and ensure that external funding is harmonized among the donors and aligned to the country systems;
  • Managing for results: the Global Partnership encourages partners to track progress of the education plan implementation;
  • Mutual Accountability: The Global Partnership for Education ensures that 'mutual accountability' principles are applied and that all partners in a country's education sector are accountable for their actions.

The Global Partnership for Education supports aid effectiveness at both the country and global levels. Here is an overview of related programs and activities:

  • Implementation of a new Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy including a Results Framework, a Mutual Accountability Matrix and an evaluation method for all Global Partnership activities including funding;
  • A more inclusive partnership with a constituency-based Board of Directors;
  • A new strategy to provide all children with quality education;
  • The new Global and Regional Activities program to encourage Partnership for Results;
  • Improved communication and knowledge sharing to provide better access to sector relevant information;
  • A single Fund to make funding more transparent and predictable;
  • Financial support to civil society to increase their engagement in sector dialogue and processes through the Civil Society Education Fund;
  • National education plans: linked to a detailed implementation plan and budget to help donor partners align their funding and capacity development support.
  • Sector Partnerships: Local Education Groups are the platforms where the aid effectiveness principles are translated into action. They coordinate joint missions and sector reviews, carry out analytic work, provide technical cooperation to increase national capacity and develop or strengthen more aligned and harmonized financing arrangements.
Last Modified: January 03, 2012
Relevant Links
Highlights
Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration The Global Programs Learning Group