Aid Effectiveness
The Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (FTI)
has created a process for donors to support countries’
education plans with emphasis on alignment, coordination
and harmonization.
Fact
Sheet on Aid Effectiveness
Sample harmonization documents
Alignment
FTI donor partners are committed to aligning their
support to the development and implementation of one
national education sector strategy whose priorities are
integrated into country wide development priorities. In
turn, this provides a platform for donor coordination
and a framework for the adoption of one set of
monitoring indicators, one process for performance
assessment, and common conditionalities.
FTI donor partners rely on country based and owned
institutions, systems and procedures to the maximum
extent possible where these provide assurances that aid
will be used effectively. The donors work to help
strengthen these institutions including country public
financial management and budgeting to ensure that their
aid is accurately reported. In addition, the donors are
working to provide predictable multi-year aid
commitments.
Harmonization
Harmonization is about donors increasingly using common
arrangements for aid, sharing their technical and
analytical work, and joining together on field missions.
The FTI helps governments and donors to co-ordinate
their efforts, starting with the agreement that one
partner acts as the local coordinating agency.
The FTI endorsement process encourages harmonization
throughout, assisted by a unique and flexible tool, the
Appraisal Guidelines, developed by the FTI for joint
evaluation of a country’s education strategy. One part
of this tool is an evidence-based Indicative Framework
which enables all donors and government to agree on the
same measures for monitoring progress. This helps with
management by results, another important element of the
Paris Declaration.
 
Mutual Accountability
FTI is built on mutual accountability. Donors provide
coordinated and increased financial and technical
support in a transparent and predictable manner.
Conversely, partner countries have agreed to put primary
education at the forefront of their domestic efforts and
develop sound national education plans.
In short, donors must meet their commitments to provide
more and better aid, while national governments commit
to use that aid more effectively. A technical working group on
harmonization, established in 2004 by the FTI Partners, focused on
these crucial issues at the global and local levels.
The accountability of FTI partner countries is defined
through the endorsement process, while ensuring that the
donor partners keep their side of the compact is less
clear. To address this issue, a new “donor indicative
framework” has been piloted in four countries, and is
being aligned with the indicators of progress from the
Paris Declaration. This framework not only aims to
measure harmonization but it can be used as a tool to
foster dialogue around this issue within the education
sector.
Donors are coordinating their
efforts through various types of agreements, including memoranda of
understanding, codes of
conduct or silent partnership agreements. Some examples
are provided below. Documents refer to the education
sector, except where noted otherwise.
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