Aid Harmonization

This online report focuses on how the donor community can work together to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Leaders from international development organisations, developing country governments and donor institutions have contributed to this report containing research, analysis and commentary on aid coordination efforts.

The report includes:

• Interviews with leaders in the international development community
• Points of view from aid donors, aid recipients and civil society organisations
• Articles on the challenges facing harmonisation efforts and the mechanisms that can be used to support those efforts
• Links to hundreds of related articles and websites

Interviews with leaders in the international development community focus on how organisations and governments can work together to achieve international poverty reduction goals:

Global Financing for the MDGs: What’s Possible with John W. McArthur, Deputy Director of the United Nations Millennium  Project
Harmonization: A New Paradigm For Donors? with Richard Manning, Chairman of The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC)
Know-How In Africa: Where Are The Results? with Soumana Sako, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Civil Society: Helping to Shape Policy with Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of the civil society organisation CIVICUS

Articles cover a range of topics including:

• Adopting new technologies to increase efficiency
• Focusing and harmonising aid efforts to achieve the MDGs
• Understanding how cultural, economic and gender issues affect aid efforts
• Working together to improve health, education and environmental systems