Tackling rural poverty, together

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This plan sets out how the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) intends, in 2004 and 2005, to strengthen aid effectiveness by engaging more systematically in the harmonization and alignment of its practices and procedures with those of partner countries and other donors.  It sets out how CIDA will help fulfil the commitments of the United Nations Financing for Development Conference in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002, with respect to harmonization of operational procedures (2002). It also demonstrates how CIDA will implement the Rome Declaration on Harmonization (2003) and apply the good principles and practices set out in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee's (DAC) Harmonizing Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (February 2003).

CIDA intends to intensify and accelerate these efforts and systematically look for opportunities for harmonization, at the same time reducing obstacles to greater alignment with partner country systems and processes.  Consistent with the DAC’s Good Practice Papers, this plan sets out a series of actions that CIDA will take to make progress on harmonization in three functional areas:

1. In its relationships with country partners;
2. In its relationships with other donors; and
3. Internally within CIDA.