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It reminded participants at the ongoing Third High Level Forum (HLF3) on Aid Effectiveness of their commitment in the 2005 Paris Declaration to boost aid effectiveness through citizen participation, greater government accountability and transparency in the development process to stem corruption.
"Corruption will continue to undermine aid effectiveness and poverty reduction efforts without immediate action on transparency, accountability and citizen participation by aid recipients and donor countries," TI warned in a statement in Accra.
More than 1,200 representatives of developed and developing countries as well as civil society organizations are attending the forum in Accra to assess progress made on aid effectiveness based on the five main principles in the March 2005 Paris Declaration.
The Paris Declaration committed both donor and recipient countries to the principles of ownership, alignment, harmonization, mutual accountability and managing for results, but the countries themselves have observed that progress based on those five principles have been slow since 2005.
The Accra conference is therefore expected to throw light on the dragging factors and evolve an action plan dubbed Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) to ensure a full realization of the principles of the Paris Declaration by the 2010 deadline.
Corruption has been cited as a major impeding factor to the realization of full ownership of aid funded development projects by developing countries and the AAA is expected to address that in a more concrete manner.
The statement, however, noted that the final draft of the 31-point AAA itself ha d failed to adequately address the issue of corruption.
"Although the AAA, endorsed by the representatives of 100 developed and develop ing countries, as well as multilateral development banks and agencies clearly mentions fighting corruption as a condition for greater aid effectiveness, it provides no framework for action," the statement said.
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