These commitments include significant increases in debt relief and aid.

Richer countries must also increase bilateral and multilateral aid commitments.

The DAC donors were urged to fulfil aid targets and commitments to LDCs.

The DAC donors were urged to fulfil aid targets and commitments to those countries.

The Group of Eight Summit in Gleneagles made substantial commitments on aid volumes and debt.

Compounding that is the shortage of domestic financial resources and the unfulfilled international financial aid commitments.

Developed countries must make commitments to increase both the quantity and effectiveness of aid to developing countries.

But aid conditionality and treaty commitments have significantly constrained policymaking in most developing countries, especially the poorest.

If they are to be met, donors must also deliver on their commitments for significant increases in aid.

Without accountability, development performance will not improve, and without performance, international commitments and increased aid cannot be sustained.

The Development Assistance Committee donors were urged to fulfil aid targets and commitments to the least developed countries.

The Board invited donors to adjust upwards the aid targets and commitments included in the Programme of Action.

It is not clear whether these resources are additional to overall future aid commitments by donors or are simply shifted from other allocations within the same aid budget.

Third, some part of our global stimulus should come from commitments that the international community has made on aid.

While there have been announcements of commitments to increase aid by 2015 as indicated above, there is no guarantee that the aid budget will actually increase to the predicted level.

Since the G 8 was off track in its aid commitments for many years, I long wondered what the G 8 would say in 2010, when the commitments actually fell due.

Africa's development partners would need to meet their commitments to significantly increase aid flows in a predictable and coherent manner.

Bilateral donors and multilateral agencies significantly increased their aid commitments for trade related technical assistance and capacity building in 2003.

In short, the Summit had encouraged Member States to make major commitments in the areas of ownership, aid and debt.

In that regard, it was urgent that the commitments made in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness should be fulfilled.

The fulfilment of the aid commitments and the principles and targets in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness would be a major breakthrough in international cooperation, particularly for sub Saharan Africa.

Its unique feature would be to front load aid flows through the issuance of bonds guaranteed by participating Governments that will allow aid commitments to be spent before they are budgeted.

The international community should set a specific target for an amount of aid in that form and long term commitments should be made to providing predictable aid flows to recipient countries.

Others called attention to the recent achievements in raising development funds worldwide and the current momentum in aid commitments by donors.

We welcome commitments to enhance the quality of aid that are based on a recognition of the needs of recipient countries.

In that connection, they expected from their traditional partners stronger partnership commitments, especially with regard to aid, trade and migration management.

For example, the international community is increasing commitments of aid resources and has begun to explore innovative approaches for development assistance.

Arab States, particularly Somalia and the Sudan, account for the major share of 1992 emergency food aid commitments to OIC countries.

The Council further demands that all parties fully abide by their commitments in this regard and facilitate timely delivery of humanitarian aid.

International commitments on aid, debt and trade issues for developing countries are essential to implement for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

However, some representatives questioned the opportunity of a global time frame and called for a focus on aid achievements rather than on commitments.

Band Aid, Live Aid.

Measured in terms of aid allocations as a share of gross national product (GNP), the performance of the DAC countries in 1991 fell far short of the aid targets and commitments set forth in the Programme of Action.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

Our aid is effective aid.

Aid us, lord, aid us.

Equally important will be to press ahead with the Doha round of WTO trade talks, and to follow through with past commitments regarding aid to Africa.

There is an urgent need to honour and even go beyond the commitments entered into with regard to aid, access to international trade and debt reduction.

Export subsidies need to be eliminated by a credible end date, and disciplines elaborated on parallel commitments in food aid, export credits and state trading enterprises.

The World Bank group should increase its efforts to support achievement of the Goals through enhanced delivery of aid commitments and improved harmonization among development partners.

Commitments

It would also help if the advanced developed countries fulfilled their commitments to helping the world s poorest by increasing their foreign aid budgets to 0.7 of GDP.

After commending the commitments made by donors to increase aid by around 130 billion a year by 2010, including doubling the amount of aid to sub Saharan Africa over the same period, he urged the international community to explore innovative sources of financing.

This year, despite a massive budget crisis, the UK government has heroically honored its aid commitments, showing that other countries could have done so if they had tried.

This would be more than a technical exercise of periodically publishing figures on aid commitments and disbursements, an exercise that many organizations, including the United Nations, already undertake.