Editing Aid effectiveness (section)

=== Coordination ===
While the number of Non-governmental Organization have increased dramatically over the past few decades, fragmentation in aid policy is an issue.<ref name="Economist" /> Because of such fragmentation, health workers in several African countries, for example, say they are so busy meeting western delegates that they can only do their proper jobs in the evening.<ref name="Economist" />

One of the Paris Declaration's priorities is to reduce systems of aid that are "parallel" to local systems.<ref name="Economist" /> For example, [[Oxfam]] reported that, in Mozambique, donors are spending $350 million a year on 3,500 technical consultants, which is enough to hire 400,000 local civil servants, weakening local capacity.<ref name="Economist" /> Between 2005 and 2007, the number of parallel systems did fall, by about 10% in 33 countries.<ref name="Economist" /> In order to improve coordination and reduce parallel systems, the Paris Declaration suggests that aid recipient countries lay down a set of national development priorities and that aid donors fit in with those plans.<ref name="Economist" />