The Report on Incentives for Aid Effectiveness in Donor Agencies was prepared by the Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, chaired by Joan Boer (Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the OECD) and Bruce Purdue (Asian Development Bank), under the auspices of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, an international partnership hosted by the DAC.

This section identifies good practice guidance for donor agencies to improve aid effectiveness, intended for different types of donor agencies, both multilateral and bilateral, and structured around the basic principles of change management: leadership and management (including commitment, communication and organisational culture); staffing (including recruitment and posting, training and development, and reward and recognition); policies and procedures; and budgeting and reporting (including performance monitoring and evaluation, and linking the budget to results).

This section provides a self-assessment tool for donor agencies. This tool is designed to assist them in identifying their institution’s strengths, weaknesses and gaps on incentives for promoting aid effectiveness. The assessment will help them to address any organisational and incentive-related changes that are required for better aid effectiveness, thus helping them to meet their commitments articulated in the Paris Declaration.