Country ownership of development co-operation

The Busan Partnership agreement is founded on the commitment to promote ownership by countries of their own development agenda. Ownership requires that a country has sufficient support among stakeholders within and outside of the government to build the institutional capacity required for defining and implementing a national development strategy. This chapter reviews the state of implementation of this commitment, as well as the challenges encountered in putting it into practice. Specifically, it focuses on findings from the 2016 monitoring round related to: country efforts to strengthen budgetary and public financial management systems (Indicator 9a) development partner reliance on country systems and processes to deliver funding (Indicator 9b) progress in untying aid (Indicator 10) and efforts by development partners to make the delivery of development co-operation more predictable (Indicator 5).