The "zero draft" is a very good basis for refinement. It obviously results from substantial work and, I imagine, a multiplicity of previous drafts! last sentence.
A few comments:
-- The first 4+ pages will benefit for further editing, including streamlining...
-- In several places there are references to "comprehensive policies and actions" (e.g. in #35, principle 3 and #34, principle 4). These might be modified to refer to "coherent and comprehensive policies and actions"
-- In #32 (Principle 2), sub-paragraph 'iv' is unclear. Might the intention be: "However, this is not a valid reason for cooperation partners to by-pass national structures. They should continue to respect the tenets underlying country ownership...strategies and implementation and, where necessary, support capacity development to achieve this"?
-- In #33(iii) it is said that "comprehensive analyses...require joint and coordinated assessments". Unless I am already out-of-date, recent inter-agency discussions and guidance have distinguished between "joint assessments" and "coordinated assessments" with the former being the rarely-achievable ideal and the latter being what might be realistic to aim for in most situations while advocating for at least joint analyses. Might the reference to "joint and coordinated assessments" be replaced by "coordinated or, preferably joint, assessments" or, even better, "joint analyses based on coordinated assessments"?
I hope this might be helpful. Best (Ron)
Mr. Ron Ockwell