Common Principles
Sector: These principles matter especially for actors in these:
- Functions of Government (COFOG)
- Economic Activities (ISIC):
- #isic8411 - General public administration activities,
- #isic8421 - Foreign affairs,
- #isic9411 - Activities of business and employers membership organizations,
- #isic9412 - Activities of professional membership organizations,
- #isic9420 - Activities of trade unions,
- #isic9491 - Activities of religious organizations,
- #isic9492 - Activities of political organizations,
- #isic9499 - Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. and
- #isic9900 - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
International organizations and government entities have articulated principles that inform and support the way in which they set about fulfilling their mission.
When comparing these principles across a number of organizations and activities, it is striking that there are several commonalities. The listed common principles are based on a commonality check of:
- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005)
- Shared Principles of the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (2011)
- Istanbul CSO Development Effectiveness Principles
- Governance and Anticorruption Key Principles that guide the World Bank Group's work on governance and anticorruption
- The 10 Fragile State Principles that provide a set of guidelines for actors involved in development co-operation, peacebuilding, statebuilding and security in fragile and conflict-affected states
- Principles of Democracy
There is a reference to this page at
the principles article of the Convention on Knowledge Commons.
Jan Goossenaerts
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There is a post including a link to this page on Common Principles in the G+ Community MDG Post-2015.
Jan Goossenaerts
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Here a perspective by Tessie San Martin (Plan International USA) (Sept. 20, 2012): There is a need for:
(a) more INGO investment in development education, with the objective of creating more “sophisticated” buyers (donors more willing to question, evaluate, push back) and
(b) investment in developing common metrics and dashboards to improve transparency and spur discussion about common standards for collecting, aggregating and disseminating results.
Jan Goossenaerts
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Jörg Faust and Dirk Messner in Organizational Challenges for an Effective Aid Architecture – Traditional Deficits, the Paris Agenda and Beyond (2007) use the principal-agent perspective to outline these fundamental challenges for development cooperation: there are often fundamental tensions between broad collective goals and the preferences of specific organizations (agents) which cannot be monitored, evaluated or controlled by the principals.
The authors list and clarify these issues for further detailed study:
Jan Goossenaerts
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