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Since the modern era of aid giving began after WWII donors have sought to improve the effectiveness of their aid. In this context, the Paris Agenda strongly emphasized greater use of recipient government systems in the 2000s, primarily with a view to strengthening their capacity and accountability. This paper sets out a research program to address whether the ‘Paris-style’ approach to using systems in order to strengthen them (i.e. transferring aid to and through those systems) is working, and whether an analogous approach might also be appropriate for non-state sectors.