By Simon Feeny
This publication examines how foreign reduction donors and Non-Governmental businesses (NGOs) will help international locations within the Asia-Pacific quarter in achieving the Millennium improvement objectives. The e-book examines the growth international locations have made in the direction of the MDGs and highlights the necessity to tailor the ambitions to person state conditions.
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However, SWAps will not provide a universal solution to aid effectiveness. They require strong government leadership to manage and implement programmes. In countries with weak public sector financial management systems, high corruption and ineffective monitoring systems SWAps are not likely to yield desired results. SWAps are also not useful for cross-cutting sectors such as gender, rural development and the environment and in some circumstances could be just as demanding of recipient public sector officials time and resources than aid projects.
However, the results from the 2006 survey point to a number of areas in which donors clearly need to improve on. In most countries there is considerable discrepancy between the aid funds disbursed by donors and the funds that are actually recorded in recipients’ budgets. Aid flows also need to become more predictable with the amounts disbursed by donors becoming more in line with the amounts committed. It is also clear that coordinating activities requires a far greater time commitment from donors (OECD, 2006).
Proportion of the Population with Sustainable Access to and Improved Water Source (WHO/UNICEF) 31. Proportion of the Population with Access to Improved Sanitation (WHO/UNICEF) Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers, by 2020 Indicators 32. Slum population as percentage of urban population (secure tenure index) (UN-Habitat) GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.