{"id":965,"date":"2025-10-02T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/donors-preach-more-than-they-practice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:43","slug":"donors-preach-more-than-they-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/busan-high-level-forum\/donors-preach-more-than-they-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors Preach More Than They Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"edit image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/busan-high-level-forum\/donors-preach-more-than-they-practice\/179560-1-eng-gb\/donors-preach-more-than-they-practice_full_view.jpg\" alt=\" By Pil\">\n\t<\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Donors preach more than they practice  \">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/18362\/19766\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDonors preach more than they practice<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/da-gama-louis\/\">Louis  da Gama<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t27 November 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Donors keeping their promises is the key to good aid effectiveness. The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan needs to respond to donors who fail to implement aid effectiveness principles.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"text-right\">Donors keeping their promises is the key to good aid effectiveness. The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan needs to respond to donors who fail to implement aid effectiveness principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Accra 2006 and Accra 2011<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">A few days ago I was in Accra, where the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalfund.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Fund<\/a> to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria decided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/sarah-boseley-global-health\/2011\/nov\/23\/aids-tuberculosis\" target=\"_blank\">to cancel Round 11<\/a> (the next round of grant allocations). To a large extent, this was down to the failure of many donors to honour their funding pledges. You can do your own math. This is ironic considering that donors made a commitment in Accra in 2006 to increase the predictability of aid flows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">I was in Accra as a member of the Global Fund Communities delegation for people affected by HIV\/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria and acted as the voice for those afflicted with malaria. Our delegation ensures that the Global Fund delivers universal access to high-quality treatment, care, and support for communities living with and affected by the three diseases based on the principles of equity and human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Busan 2011<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Today I am in Busan. Tomorrow, donors will gather to discuss how much progress has been made since 2006. There will also be discussions on how to improve and strengthen the Paris and Accra aid effectiveness commitments. Moreover, the \u2018development cooperation\u2019 agenda will be raised by emerging economies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">All these discussions are very welcome. However, they are ignoring the elephant in the room \u2013 the fact that the Global Fund, one of the most efficient aid effectiveness mechanisms, is being paralysed. Funding for HIV\/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria has been frozen until 2014. Health MDG commitments will fail as programmes come to an abrupt halt waiting for Round 11 monies. Millions could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mobileweb\/jeffrey-sachs\/washington-leaves-million_b_1112746.html\" target=\"_blank\">die<\/a>. There will be no scale-up of treatment for those who need it today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Meanwhile, multidrug resistant malaria is threatening to spread in South East Asia. This could potentially have an acutely adverse effect on the response to malaria in Africa, which has successfully used Global Fund monies to reduce malaria-related deaths in 11 African countries by 50% in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The Global Fund implements aid effectiveness in practice. As a health-sector mechanism, it advocates good governance and transparent and accountable processes that are country-owned among all donors and implementing governments, civil society, the private sector and private foundations on the Fund\u2019s board. It saves millions of lives and reaches out to the most excluded, such as people who use drugs, sex workers and gay people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">At the same time, no organization functions in a completely ideal way. The Global Fund has identified several problems related to the organization\u2019s efficiency and effectiveness, and there is now a clear plan to address these issues. The Global Fund is not a bad model, however. In fact, it is widely recognized as one of the best that we have (see the United Kingdom government\u2019s \u2018Multilateral Aid Review\u2019, which rates the Global Fund as \u2018very good value for money\u2019).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Debates about aid at the Busan forum must not avoid the key question of the impact that donors\u2019 failing mechanisms will have on aid effectiveness. Facing this issue will take the aid effectiveness agenda to a higher level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>What next?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Donors keeping their promises is the key to good aid effectiveness. The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan needs to respond to donors who fail to implement aid effectiveness principles. Medium- to long-term predictable financing is crucial for sustainable development. The first of December is World AIDS day, and it is also the last day of the Busan forum. Let us use this opportunity to ask donors why, while verbally supporting aid effectiveness, they are failing so many people in need. Donors need to practice what they preach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><i>I am attending the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and open for communication with the media. 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