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Global Activities
To facilitate country level implementation, bilateral and multilateral agencies are actively collaborating on key harmonization themes at the global level, with input from several partner countries.
In May 2003, the DAC created the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and Donor Practices (WP-EFF) to promote, support, and monitor progress on harmonization and alignment, with input from several partner countries. It has a broader multilateral participation and mandate than its predecessor (the Task Force on Donor Practices) that covers public financial management, procurement, and managing for results as well. It maintains close linkages to harmonization work undertaken in other bodies such as the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU). In addition to the bilateral agencies and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and World Bank, which are already participating actively as observers, the WP-EFF has several new participants: the African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (AsDB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA). While retaining the importance of bilateral partnerships, this new configuration of the Working Party enables the WP-EFF to serve as the locus for maintaining the overview on the different strands of the harmonization and alignment agenda, establishing priorities, and carrying out cross-cutting work.
The multilateral development banks (MDBs) have technical working groups on financial management, procurement, environment assessments, and analytic work, and to focus on implementation of the harmonization agenda. The collaborate closely with the WP-EFF in technical areas of common interest.
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