Development Cooperation Report 2012 - UNDP Afghanistan

INTRODUCTION
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Building on the overview of the data provided in previous section, this chapter
presents analyses of the progress achieved on aid effectiveness principles, the
existing challenges and the way forward. The analysis will focus on developments
since the last Development Cooperation Report (2010) and some general issues over
the period 2002 to 2011.
In the last two years (2010-2011), efforts to enhance international development
cooperation experienced tremendous shifts at the local and global levels. Namely, the
Fourth High Level Forum (HLF-4) in November-December 2011 in Busan introduced
a new paradigm for development cooperation, enunciating more inclusive and
broader partnerships while embracing diversity and emphasizing the key role of
different development actors in improving the effectiveness of development aid. The
HLF-4 rejuvenated the essence of South-South cooperation, triangular partnerships
and the role of the private sector and wider civil society in the promotion of global
development cooperation. Building upon the foundations laid in the Paris Declaration
(PD) and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA), the HLF-4 produced the Busan Partnership
for Effective Development Cooperation and the New Deal for engagement in fragile
states, marking a turning point in development partnerships. The so-called post-Busan
framework complements previous efforts in reaching the agreed development targets
with more efficient and quicker approach than before by encouraging ownership of
development priorities by developing countries, considering context specificity of the
fragile states and demanding flexibility on the part of donors.
At the local level, however, in close partnership with the International Community,
the Afghan Government sought to articulate these internationally agreed aid
effectiveness commitments into tangible actions for implementation and application
into its own development context. At the July 2010 Kabul Conference, the international
community reaffirmed their London Conference commitments to channel at least
50% of development through the Afghan Governemnt budget and to progressively
align 80% of their aid to Afghan-defined priority programs within two years. At a
subsequent international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn in December 2011, the
International Community affirmed the special status of Afghanistan to receive donor
assistance from Transition through a Transformation Decade in greater measures
than similarly situated nations.
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