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Women and children play a crucial role in development. Investing more in women's and children's health is not only the right thing to do; it also builds stable, peaceful and productive societies. Increasing investment has many benefits.

This paper offers new measures of aid quality covering 38 bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as new insights about the robustness and usefulness of such measures.

How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this survey report. The 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration assesses progress made in 54 partner countries and helps us understand the challenges in making aid more effective at advancing development.

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) in 2004 coordinated a GAVI workplan area seeking to explore ways to address system-wide barriers to immunisation. A consultation with country representatives and international partners was organised on 7-8 October 2004 in collaboration with WHO/EIP/SPO, the GAVI Secretariat and the Centre for Health and Social Development (HeSo).