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Box 7.1. Fundamental principles of the Paris Declaration
Based on decades of international experience with what works and does not work for development, the Paris Declaration of 2005 sets forth five fundamental
principles for making aid more effective:
1. Ownership: Developing countries set their own strategies for poverty reduction, improve their institutions and tackle corruption.
2. Alignment: Donor countries align themselves with these objectives and use local systems.
3. Harmonisation: Donor countries coordinate, simplify procedures and share information so as to avoid duplication.
4. Results: Developing countries and donors shift focus to development results and such results get measured.
5. Mutual accountability: Donors and partners are accountable for development results.
The Paris Declaration has more than 100 participating countries and organizations. The United Nations Development Group is among the participating
organizations.
7.1 Coordination
As with all early recovery and development programming, coordination among all involved
partners is essential for the timely achievement of intended results. Coordination
is also central to resource mobilization, given the priority that donor countries place on
aid harmonisation and alignment with national priorities.
Within the U.N. system, the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC)/Resident Coordinator (RC) has
the lead responsibility for coordinating early recovery programming in cooperation with
both national and international participants. UNDP usually plays the lead role within the
U.N. system in the coordination of early recovery programming, both through its support
to the RC/HC and through interventions to fulfill its mandate for early recovery and
development programming. At the headquarters level, UNDP is the lead agency for the
global Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery
(CWGER), and ILO currently chairs the CWGER Subgroup on Livelihoods and Economic Recovery.
While the United Nations coordinate humanitarian operations, national participants
should lead the economic recovery process. Sustainability requires national ownership
and the alignment of all programming with national priorities and development plans.
The coordination roles of UNDP Country Offices with regard to livelihoods and economic
recovery include facilitating the following, in collaboration with the RC/HC Office:
• Prioritization of livelihoods and economic recovery issues in early recovery coordination
mechanisms, strategies, and programming;
• Establishment of a coordination platform for livelihoods and economic recovery, with
agreement on the lead agency, the Terms of Reference, and a work plan;
• Stakeholder agreement on livelihoods and economic recovery assessment, interventions,
implementation, and monitoring and evaluation;
• Periodic consolidated reporting to the RC/HC and sharing of reports with Headquarters
inter-agency mechanisms (e.g., the CWGER Subgroup on Livelihoods and Economic
Recovery).
In some crisis and post-crisis situations, coordination platforms for livelihoods and economic
recovery already exist. To increase their effectiveness, these coordination platforms may
simply require strengthening, reorientation, or expansion. In other situations, coordination
platforms must be established from scratch. The identification or establishment of
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