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How to make aid more effective in Vietnam?

With the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG, 2001) and the commitments made at the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development (2002), aid effectiveness has become a major issue for everyone involved in public development aid.

Today, this agenda is structured around the five principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness of March 8, 2005: ownership, harmonization, alignment, result-oriented management and mutual accountability.

In order to uphold these principles, the French cooperation for development adopted an action plan reinforcing aid effectiveness and implementing the Paris Declaration.  The AFD set up a "work site," associating its network of agencies abroad for implementing of the French Action Plan for Aid Effectiveness .

The high-level forum in Accra in 2008 provided an assessment mid-way through the implementation process of the Paris Declaration and helped identify measures for accelerating progress in the areas where it was necessary.

In Vietnam, the AFD's strategy on aid effectiveness is founded on the Hanoi Core Statement .

This declaration is the operational by-product of the principles on aid effectiveness declared in the Paris Declaration for Vietnam.  It strives to maximize the impact of interventions by structuring actions according to 2 main guidelines: