Tackling rural poverty, together

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These cornerstones are meant to offer a practical tool to facilitate the transition process from ‘donor project aid’ to harmonised and government-led development approaches following the OECD-DAC guidelines for aid effectiveness.

The cornerstones were derived from practical experiences in the preparation and implementation of programme-based approaches (PBAs) and are based on empirical evidence as well.

Since PBAs are long-term approaches the traditional project cycle is here no longer valid, therefore – rather than sequencing these ‘cornerstones’ – , the document refers to:

1. the content definition process, and
2. the operational processes of a PBA including

• ownership, harmonisation, alignment and
• monitoring, mutual accountability, and public financial management.