Report – Co-ordination and Sector Support. An evaluation of the Netherlands' support to local governance in Uganda 1991-2001

Co-ordination of resources for development assistance and the need to harmonise related practices and procedures is one of the general principles of Dutch development co-operation policy. The Netherlands, as other multilateral and bilateral donor agencies and their development partners, has increasingly recognised the potential of co-ordination to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of development interventions and to reduce transaction costs of aid delivery. Sector co-ordination and harmonisation play an important role in sector-wide approaches, which are currently pursued in the Netherlands’ bilateral development policies.