Study on the relevance and applicability of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Humanitarian Assistance

Author(s)
Harmer, A. and Basu Ray, D.
Publication language
English
Pages
38pp
Date published
01 Mar 2009
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, International law
Organisations
ODI
This study comes five years after the
establishment of the Good Humanitarian
Donorship (GHD) initiative. GHD is perhaps the
most important step donor governments have
undertaken regarding their humanitarian policy
and practice, and is considered a benchmark for
donor behaviour. Perhaps partly because of its
perceived success in becoming embedded in
donor government policy and practice, a
comparison with its development cousin, the Paris
Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, is being
discussed.
 
A number of donor governments recognise the
possible relationship between the Paris
Declaration and GHD. Work within the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development’s Development Assistance
Committee (OECD–DAC) has also made this point.
According to the draft proposal for a Revised
Humanitarian Assessment Framework for DAC peer
reviews, humanitarian action is:
 
an integral part of the broader development
co-operation system, which is driven, inter
alia, by the Paris Declaration on Aid
Effectiveness and the Accra Action Agenda.
Alignment of the assessment framework
with these commitments would enable peer
review examiners to identify the extent to
which coherent linkages have been forged
between humanitarian and development
components of aid systems.