Aid Delivery Modalities

The European consensus on development lays down a range of modalities or procedures based on needs and performance.

“111. The Community has a wide range of modalities for implementing development aid which enable it to respond to different needs in different contexts. These are available to all geographical and thematic programmes and reflect a genuine Community added value.

112. Community assistance, whether it is project, sector programme, sector or general budget support , should support partner countries’ poverty reduction or equivalent strategies. Decisions on what modalities of Community aid are the most appropriate for each country will be made at the programming stage, which must be increasingly coordinated with the process of formulating sectoral policies and implementing national budgets”.

Three main modalities or procedures are used to implement external EU aid:

The balance/mix of methods to be used is initially established during the programming phase and laid down in the Country Strategy Papers and National Indicative Programmes.

The choice of methods used depends on (i) the social, economic and political development needs of the country and (ii) the priorities of the development partners.

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