Send-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation on Wednesday organised a forum dubbed: “Aid effectiveness," for Civil Society Organisations in Accra to facilitate their commitment to hold Development Partners (DPs) accountable to their policies.
Mr Joseph Chognuru, Head of Americas Unit, Bilateral Division of the Ministry of Finance said there was the need to stimulate improvement of individual and collective performance of DPs against agreed targets.
He noted that there was inconsistency in DPs' achievement of the targets in review over the years, adding: "Though some individual DPs had surpassed their target, their performance was falling from the baseline years or may have risen and fallen sharply between the baseline."
He said performance on the harmonisation indicators was mixed both on aggregate and at individual levels whilst implementation of joint missions had risen above the baseline and above the target, with very low percentages recorded by some DPs.
There was also inconsistent trend presented by the DPs that had surpassed the target.
Mr Chognuru said a challenge that characterised the assessment was the indication of different interpretations and calculations applied by DPs in providing data.
Mrs Veronica Sackey, Coordinator of Multi Donor Budget Support, Ministry of Finance said the Busan Outcome document reiterated the importance of the aid effectiveness age and the need for those who endorsed it to ensure that the commitments made in Paris and Accra were met in full.
She said this was a new thing since the outcome of a major international meeting resulted in actions to be undertaken by both donors and developing countries.
Mrs Sackey said the main conclusion of the monitoring survey was that progress was happening in the right direction.
She said the document also outlined key commitments as a result of the changing development landscape and re-affirmed concepts such as the commitment of partner countries to raise revenue to finance their development and use aid as a catalyst for their development agenda.
Mr George Osei Bimpeh, Country Director of SEND-Ghana said the forum was hopeful to come out with a strategy, which would ensure the monitoring of development partners.
He said there was the need to take development outcome to contribute to the issues and policies of government, adding, "We need to add not only to numbers, but to critically contribute to the development agenda."