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Apr 28 2006

It has become hard work for aid recipient governments to administer official aid flows: each donor has different reporting requirements, policies and priorities, and a lot of time is wasted hosting official missions, reinventing the wheel, and keeping track of donors. At the Monterrey Conference on Development Financing in 2002, the large-scale aid community decided to simplify things.

This initiative has made progress in the recent Paris Agenda on Aid Effectiveness, and donors are now working to harmonise their aid systems. But when more and more aid is channelled through official aid to Southern governments, where does this leave civil society organisations - both in rich and poor countries?

Find out in Ontrac 33 on Aid Harmonisation.