Samuel Moon and Tim Williamson at the Overseas Development Institute have written a background paper setting out possible steps to improve aid effectiveness in Uganda and ensuring the government-donor partnership remains relevant.

“Reinvigorating the pursuit of more effective aid in Uganda” proposes four key strategies to improve aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, and managing for results. Mutual accountability is also important, with a need to enhance accountability for project aid through the use of government systems.

Many of these recommendations require transparency of aid information, for example; “The delivery of greater alignment to the budget cycle depends on improving the timely flow of information on project aid flows in the context of budget formulation and reporting. A new aid database, provided it interfaces with the budget, would go a long way towards systematising such information.”

From this paper we can see that aid transparency is essential in delivering aid effectively.

Read “Reinvigorating the pursuit of more effective aid in Uganda”.