Effectiveness of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has to be increased in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One important step in this regard would be to limit the appropriation of Aid money for consultants and experts from countries providing the support. Often large chunks of ODA is used to fund consultants and training institutions in the aid-giving countries, for very good reasons though. Utilization of ODA should be left to the discretion of aid-recipient countries, subject to broad parameters.  That is, although there are good reasons for ODA to fund consultants and training institutions, they should not be