This is the area where every extra dollar of assistance will create the greatest benefits to society.

Emergency assistance is useful, but it is only that emergency assistance.

The draft resolution encouraged the Secretary General, through the Electoral Assistance Division, to respond to the evolving nature of requests for assistance and the growing need for specific types of medium term expert assistance.

Aid has increased significantly.

Over one third of our cooperation funding is provided within the framework of multilateral assistance, and the increase over the past few years has, of course, also benefited bilateral assistance.

Mali has benefited from such assistance.

More aid on its own will not be enough.

Specific mechanisms should be devised to enhance the accountability of all providers of relief assistance to beneficiaries.

Increasing aid to Africa

An increase in ODA should be complemented by an increase in the absorption capacity of the recipient countries and international aid should include efforts to enhance capacity building to manage ODA.

Since more and more organizations and agencies are taking part in humanitarian assistance work, it becomes ever more important that relief assistance to disaster affected countries and areas be well coordinated.

The most direct way to increase ODA volumes is to allocate increasing shares of donor countries' national budgets to aid.

There are many possibilities, and indeed a great need, for increasing this type of assistance and channelling it to the funding of regional public goods in the areas of research and training.

Aid flows are growing, but predominantly outside the United Nations system, and increasingly targeted to direct budgetary support.

In the presence of poor policies, on the other hand, aid has no effect on growth.19 Increasing recognition of the importance of the background policy environment has led donors to focus more attention on increasing aid to good performers .

His delegation also hoped to see the secretariat benefit from sufficient resources to meet the increased demand for training and assistance.

Furthermore, it is essential to implement the commitments regarding the increase in official development assistance, as well as to quickly deliver that assistance to those who are in need.

A number of representatives noted that commitments were increasing, including those by non Development Assistance Committee donors.

Financing increases in ODA through traditional means was simple, cost effective and transparent.

Moreover, humanitarian relief must be increased and must be delivered unimpeded.

Efforts to increase amounts of aid must be accompanied by measures to increase its quality.

An increase in assistance would go hand in hand with an international effort to enhance aid effectiveness.

We applaud the greater pledges for increased aid.

A rapid increase in aid flows was necessary.

This was generally deemed useful and, as demands grew for a greater AU role in Darfur, AU requested the United Nations to provide additional planning and logistical support.

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Making sure that aid is used better and more effectively is as important as increasing it.

9. Encourages further efforts to improve aid effectiveness, and invites the next World Bank Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on aid effectiveness to ensure the full participation of developing countries in future work on aid effectiveness

Both recipient Governments and bilateral donors have found support to aid coordination and management useful and necessary.

First, official development assistance (ODA) should be greatly increased.

(a) The value added of UNDAF

WFP has correspondingly increased food distribution, delivering food assistance to over 1 million beneficiaries in July and increasing the number of food drop locations in the region.

The Commission in particular hoped that the Secretariat would be allocated sufficient resources to meet the increased demand for training and assistance.

This trend mirrors the growing demand of both beneficiary and donor countries, as well as the widening scope of the trade and development challenges faced by all developing countries.

In addition to the quantity of aid, at issue is its quality as well as the monitoring arrangement.

In addition, increases in ODA must be accompanied by actions aimed at scaling up aid effectiveness.

Moreover, donor countries are increasingly earmarking aid, with no guarantee that their aid giving preferences match the needs of recipients.

Ramp up support to Haiti over the long term as there will be an increasing capacity to absorb and use aid to build more sustainable development.

Speakers welcomed the progress made earlier this year at Paris on the effectiveness of aid and increased flows of donor funding as budget support.

Increased international assistance would also be useful in this respect.

Reiterating the importance of development assistance from developed countries to support, inter alia, South South cooperation and noting ongoing efforts to increase aid effectiveness and efficiency,

(g) The need for increased assistance to family members, in particular women, taking care of the elderly

(c) Make aid more effective through promotion of African ownership of the programmes and projects being assisted and through better coordination of donor assistance

But, while international organizations encourage additional ODA spending, donor country citizens are increasingly resistant. Critics argue that the money does not reach those who truly need it that it creates dependency, and thus harms recipient countries that it is needed at home and that it generates income primarily for consultants and source country vested interests.

Donor countries have increased their direct bilateral aid and their multilateral aid for HIV AIDS.