The European Commission is committed to delivering "more and better aid".
The same basic principles of aid effectiveness are reflected in the EC's guidelines for all types of aid – for project aid, for general budget support, and for support to sector approaches.
The present guidelines address sector approaches. They revise and update the first (2003) version of the guidelines. In so doing they take account of international lessons of good practice, drawn from the EC's own experience, from the results of joint donor evaluation work, and from international guidelines, especially those propagated by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee.
Sector approaches are now being applied more widely, and these guidelines take account of experience in various "non-traditional" settings.
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