3 April 2014: The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation has released its first report regarding progress on international commitments on aid effectiveness. ‘Making Development Co-operation More Effective: 2014 Progress Report’ was issued ahead of the First Ministerial Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, taking place in Mexico City, Mexico, on 15-16 April 2014.

The report measures progress against the ten indicators of the Global Partnership’s monitoring framework. The indicators come from the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and Busan Partnership Agreement, and outcome of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea, in 2011. The report draws on data from 46 recipient countries and 77 countries and organizations that provide development aid.

The report finds that the quality of development cooperation has improved, particularly in the areas of untying aid and tracking aid spending – for example, in allocating resources for women and girls. It finds that new approaches, such as the compacts being introduced through the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States, have placed recipient governments ‘in the driver’s seat’ even during times of political transition.

President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Angel Gurría will attend the two-day Ministerial meeting in Mexico City, along with over 1,300 development actors from government, business and civil society. Participants will discuss actions to boost progress and anchor effective development cooperation in the post-2015 development agenda. The meeting will include plenary sessions on: progress since Busan; partnering for effective taxation and domestic resource mobilization for development; South-South, triangular cooperation and knowledge sharing; development cooperation with middle-income countries; and improving the role of business in development; as well as 28 focus sessions.

The Global Partnership facilitates cooperation among governments, business and civil society to end poverty. The OECD and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) support the Global Partnership. [Publication: Making Development Co-operation More Effective: 2014 Progress Report] [Global Partnership Press Release] [Draft Agenda] [UNDP Press Release]