Resource Corner
From the Executive Summary:
"The main focus of this research is to study the Mozambican aid architecture, examining how funds are transmitted to Mozambique and its impact on development efforts, how recipients and donors interact in such processes, how aid is coordinated at the country level, and how broad-based are the national planning processes and aid delivery mechanisms.
The main findings were:
· Although short term predictability of aid appear to have improved, mid to long run predictability has not.
· Donors have to harmonise and align more their internal procedures and planning systems with the demands of mutual accountability. From the review and consultations, it was obvious that many donors were not well familiar even with the matrix of their performance indicators.
· Although with many positive aspects, the apparent partnership between donors and government has been focused on procedures - how to do things - but little attention has been placed on actual directions, strategies and policies, and all requisites of the Paris Declaration.
· There is a need to improve government-donor data base and information system.
· There is a need to develop a wider and more accurate framework to identify and significantly reduce un-necessary administrative and transaction costs. Controlling the number of missions is effective in reducing them, sometimes quite dramatically, and this is also extended to donors' internal administrative burdens and transaction costs.