From Afghanistan to Bussan: Looking for New Development Cooperation
As a follow up to the Paris Declaration and ACCRA Agenda for Action, Ministers from both developing and donor countries, government representatives, parliamentarians, civil society organisations and private sector representatives will come together for the Fourth High-Level Forum (HLF-4) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea, from 29 November to 1 December 2011 to review global progress in improving the impact of development aid and make new commitments to further ensure that aid helps reduce poverty and supports progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In 2005, heads of agencies and other senior officials from different countries met in Paris at the High Level Forum, and committed their countries and organizations to the Paris Declaration Commitments by signing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. In September 2008, development partners came together in Accra, Ghana, to boost efforts to achieve the Paris targets. In addition to all these commitments, findings from the Paris Declaration Evaluation and Monitoring Surveys show slow More
Findings of the Paris Declaration Evaluation Phase II: Ensuring aid priorities are met
In February 2005, the International Community came together at the Paris High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness to improve the quality of aid and its impact on development priorities and to support partner country efforts to strengthen development performance. The International Community formulated five principles on Aid Effectiveness which are Ownership, Alignment, Harmonization, Managing for Results, and Mutual Accountability; and twelve indicators to assess the progress of the five benchmarks. It was agreed to conduct country-level evaluations on aid effectiveness, where Governments would take a lead. More
Improving Budget Transparency: media journalist Participate in one day learning course "Know your budget"

Twenty media journalists from Afghanistan working in leading media companies in Kabul, Afghanistan were selected to participate in the one day interactive learning course event titled ‘know your budget’ held on 14 March 2012, in Kabul Star Hotel and organized in joint partnership with the Ministry of Finance and UNDP Making Budgets and Aid Work Project. Through this learning course, the journalists learnt how the MoF prepares its national budget, its relevance and implication at national level, how the budget addresses priorities that will benefit the people of Afghanistan and finally how it promotes sound Public Financial Managemen. More
Keeping Development Priorities on Track: Sr. Minister and MoF with support from MBAW lead Governance Forum discussions

Altogether, over 50 high level ministers and government officials of Line Ministries participated in the Governance Forum held on 14 March 2012 held at the Marble Palace, Sadarat, Kabul and co-chaired by H.E. Senior Minister Hedayat Amin Arsala, Head of the Governance Cluster and H.E Omar Zakhilwal, Minister of Finance. More

The budget preparation process in Afghanistan has been centralized. Budget appropriations are made by line ministries to the level of object code (activity) and project code, but without account of the provincial breakdown of the budget item. Line ministries lack mechanisms to develop and also justify provincial allocation of their budget. Additionally, most provincial departments are not involved in the budget preparation and remain unaware of the final budget allocation by provinces. In 1386, MoF initiated provincial budget reform in order to address these issues.More