USEFUL WEBSITES

Regulatory and Standard-Setting Bodies

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) http://www.bis.org Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB – United

States) http://www.fasb.org

International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) http://www.iasc.org.uk International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) http://www.ifac.org

Professional Bodies

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants http://www.accaglobal.com International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board

(IAASB) http://www.ifac.org/iaasb/index.php

International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) http://www.ifac.org The Regional Federation of Accountants and Auditors

AFROSAI - African Organization of Supreme Audit

Institutions Email: [email protected]

ARABOSAI - Arab Organization of Supreme Audit

Institutions http://www.arabosai.org

Eastern Central and Southern African Federation of

Accountants http://www.ecsafa.org

INTOSAI - International Organization of Supreme

Audit Institutions. http://www.intosai.org

International Organizations

International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) http://www.ifac.org International Organization of Securities Commissions

(IOSCO) http://www.iosco.org

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org

World Trade Organization (WTO) http://www.wto.org Donor Organizations

Asian Development Bank (AsDB) http://www.adb.org European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

(EBRD) http://www.ebrd.org

European Union – Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (EU-TACIS)

http://europa.eu.int/

comm/dg1a/tacis/index.htm Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

Nations http://www.fao.org

International Fund for Agricultural Development http://www.ifad.org International Monetary Fund (IMF) http://www.imf.org Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) http://www.isdb.org United Nations Development Program (UNDP) http://www.undp.org

World Bank http://www.worldbank.org

Selected Bilateral Organizations

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) http://www.um.dk/danida Department for International Development (DFID)

(United Kingdom) http://www.dfid.gov.uk

Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

(German Technical Cooperation) http://www.gtz.de Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) http://www.jbic.go.jp Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) http://www.jica.go.jp Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) http://www.sida.se United States Agency for International Development

(USAID) http://www.usaid.gov

Sectoral References

Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) www.cgap.org

The Microfinance Gateway http://www.microfinancegateway.org World Council of Credit Unions (WCCU) www.woccu.org

Other

Africa Governance Institute, UNDP http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease /releases/2005/june/pr9jun05a.html Aid Harmonization and Alignment http://www.aidharmonization.org/

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

http://www.codesria.org/Links/Traini ng_and_Grants/governance_institute.

htm

COSTAB http://www.worldbank.org/html/opr/c

ostab/costab.html

Decentralization, UNDP http://www.undp.org/governance/dec

entralization.htm

E-governance http://www.eldis.org/ict/egovernance.

htm Governance Research Indicator Country Snapshot

(GRICS), World Bank

http://info.worldbank.org/governance/

kkz2002/index.htm Governance Resource Centre (GRC) of the UK

Department for International Development (DFID) http://www.grc-exchange.org

Institute of Development Studies http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/govern/index .html

International Corporate Governance Network http://www.icgn.org PEFA - Public Expenditure & Financial Accountability http://www.pefa.org

Promoting Good Governance, GTZ http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/politisc he-reformen/882.htm

Public Sector Governance http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsec tor/index.cfm

The Civil Society and Governance Programme http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/civsoc The Encyclopedia about Corporate Governance http://www.encycogov.com/

Transparency International http://www.transparency.org/

Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) http://www.wgig.org 7.3 ROME & PARIS DECLARATIONS

Rome Declaration

In February 2003, leaders of the major multilateral development banks and international and bilateral organizations, and donor and recipient country representatives gathered in Rome for the High-Level Forum on Harmonization (HLF-Rome). They committed to take action to improve the management and effectiveness of aid and to take stock of concrete progress. Information regarding the HLF and follow up to the Forum is found at: www.aidharmonization.org.

7.3.1 The HLF concluding statement, The Rome Declaration on Harmonization, sets out an ambitious program of activities:

• Ensure that harmonization efforts are adapted to the country context, and that donor assistance is aligned with the development recipient’s priorities.

• Expand country-led efforts to streamline donor procedures and practices.

• Review and identify ways to adapt institutions’ and countries’ policies, procedures, and practices to facilitate harmonization.

• Implement the good practices principles and standards formulated by the development community as the foundation for harmonization.

7.3.2 The attached is the Rome Declaration on Harmonization:

Rome Declaration

Paris Declaration

7.3.3 The Paris Declaration represents the culmination of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF) held in Paris 28 February to 2 March 2005. The HLF was hosted by the French Government and attended by development officials and ministers from ninety one countries, twenty six donor organizations and partner countries, representatives of civil society organizations and the private sector. The participants took stock of progress in the wide range of activities that have taken place since the Rome High-Level Forum (2003). They also identified ch further, or more intense, work is needed. The Bank participated in and rther details regarding the HLF and follow up to the Forum please refer to www.aidharmonization.org

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contributed to the funding of the HLF. For fu 7.3.4 The Paris Declaration is as follows:

Paris Declaration

7.3.5 The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (see above) reflects the commitment of external funding agencies to “avoid, to the maximum extent possible, creating dedicated structures for day-to-day management and implementation of aid-financed projects and rogrammes.” The Bank has committed in the Paris Declaration to harmonize project ec implementation,

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implementation arrangements, minimize the use of parallel structures for proj and to use joint PIUs with other development partners where possible.

7.3.6 As a follow up to the Paris Decla

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of Progress: (i) List of Indicators; (ii) Letter from the DAC Chair; and (iii) Methodology for Quantitative Indicators’

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7.3.7 The following World Bank paper: ‘Guidance Note for Project Management - Strengthening Institutional Capacity during Project Implementation, October 2005’aims to encourage operations managers and staff not only to give priority to project implementation erformance but also to balance it with sustainable institutional capacity development beyond the

mode, and PIUs—

7.3.8 The World Bank ‘Guidance Note for Project Management - trengthening Institutional Capacity during Project Implementation, October 2005’ is attached:

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project. To that end, existing country institutions should be the “default”

especially parallel “stand-alone” PIUs—should be phased out.

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