Public Financial Management Guide

In the 2005 Paris Declaration, partner countries committed to strengthening their national systems and donors to using them to the maximum extent possible as part of the global efforts to make aid more effective. Both partners and donors agreed to accelerate and deepen these commitments during the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Accra in 2008. As a result, §15 of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) commits developing countries and donors to “strengthen and use developing country systems to the maximum extent possible”. In order to facilitate the implementation of these commitments, the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness created a Global Partnership on Strengthening and Using Country Systems