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Making Aid more Effective
Through Local Insight
Brenda Killen
Aid Effectiveness
Development Cooperation Directorate
ASADI Annual Meeting
November 4th, 2008
Table of contents
1 Aid Effectiveness Agenda:
From Paris to Accra
2 Implementing the Accra Agenda
for Action: Local Insight is Key
3 Evidence Based Interventions in
Health
Paris Declaration: a roadmap for change
Managing for Results
2
Ownership
Partners
set the
agenda
(Partner countries)
Alignment
(Donors - Partner)
3 Harmonisation
(Donors - Donors)
Aligning
with
partners’
agenda
Establishing
common
arrangements
Using
partners’
systems
Simplifying
procedures
Sharing
information
5 Mutual accountability
1
4
Paris Declaration (2005)
• Unprecedented consensus;
• 56 action-oriented commitments for both Donors and
Partners countries;
• New concepts of managing for results and mutual
accountability;
• Built-in mechanism for monitoring progress at country
and global levels; and
• Targets set for 2010.
Evidence is Key in the Paris Declaration:
12 indicators to monitor the Commitments
INDICATORS
SURVEY
REVIEWS
Ownership
1
National development strategies
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Alignment
2
Quality of country systems
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3
Alignment: aid is on budget
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4
Coordinated support for capacity
development
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5
Use of country systems
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6
Parallel PIUs
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7
In-year predictability of aid
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8
Aid is untied
9
Programme-based approaches

10
Joint missions & analytic work
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Managing for
Results
11
Results-oriented frameworks
Mutual
Accountability
12
Reviews of mutual performance
Harmonisation
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Accra High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness (2008)
•
High Level political event on aid, a few months
before Financing for Development in Doha
•
Mid-term Stock-taking of the Paris Declaration
mutual commitments
•
Forward looking event : road to 2011.
•
140+ partner countries, most donors, most
international aid agencies. 1 700 participants
•
Strong civil society engagement (+ parallel event)
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Unprecedented consultation process
Accra Agenda for Action: Features
• 48 ambitious actions to accelerate the full
implementation of the Paris Declaration with
additional deadlines and few new areas (southsouth, global programs and funds)
• Progress will be monitored and evaluated by
2010. OECD’s Working Party on Aid
Effectiveness (WP-EFF) will report back on
progress to the 4th High Level Forum in 2011
Table of contents
1 Aid Effectiveness Agenda:
From Paris to Accra
2 Implementing the Accra Agenda
for Action: Local Insight is Key
3 Evidence Based Interventions in
Health
Local Insight key to making Aid More
Effective
• Experience shows that the universality
and cookie-cutter approaches to aid
have not worked
• Making aid effective requires evidence
based on local knowledge
• Local capacity needs to be built to
produce evidence
• Leading to more effective, sustainable
and accountable use of resources
Local Insight and the Accra Agenda for
Action (1)
Strengthening Country Ownership over
Key Pots of the AAA
Development
- Engage in open and inclusive dialogue on development
policies, including with research institutes on the role of aid
in contributing to countries’ development objectives (§13)
- “Without robust capacity – strong institutions, systems and
local expertise – developing countries cannot fully own and
manage their development process” (§14)
- Provision of technical co-operation by local and regional
resources (§14)
- Developing countries and donors will jointly assess the
quality of country systems in a country-led process (§15)
Local Insight and the Accra Agenda for
Action (2)
Building More Effective and Inclusive Partnerships
Key Pots of the AAA
for Development
- Partnerships will be most effective when they fully harness
the energy, skill and experience of all development
actors, including CSOs and the private sector (§17)
- Donors will promote the use of local and regional
procurement and build on examples of good practice to
help improve local firms’ capacity (§18)
- Deepen engagement with CSOs as independent
development actors whose efforts complement those of
governments and the private sector (§20)
- Donors are to provide tailored capacity development
support for core state functions in fragile states (§21)
Local Insight and the Accra Agenda for
Action (3)
Delivering and Accounting for Development Results
Key Pots of the AAA
- Strengthening the quality of policy design,
implementation and assessment by improving information
systems (§23)
- Developing countries and donors will work to develop costeffective results management instruments (§23)
- Donors will invest in strengthening developing countries’
national statistical capacity and information systems
(§23)
- Mutual accountability is to be strengthened through mutual
assessment reviews based on country results reporting and
information systems complemented with credible
independent evidence (§24)
Table of contents
1 Aid Effectiveness Agenda:
From Paris to Accra
2 Implementing the Accra Agenda
for Action: Local Insight is Key
3 Evidence Based Interventions
in Health
Evidence based interventions in health
• Investing in the right activities based on
local knowledge will ensure that
interventions are sustainable and
effective
• Developing good Health Information
Systems is key: Tanzania is an example
Aid to health continues to grow
Chart 1. Trends in aid to Health
1973-2006, 5-year moving averages and annual figures, constant 2006 prices
9000
USD Million
DAC countries, annual figures
8000
7000
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DAC countries, moving average
4000
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Multilateral agencies, moving average
1000
Multilateral agencies, annual figures
0
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2006
Ongoing Initiatives and Partnerships in
Health
• Special Program on Research and Training in Tropical
Diseases (TDR)
- Research on neglected priority needs
- Innovation for product discovery and delivery
- Regionally based research activities undertaken by
developing country scientists and institutions
• International Aids Vaccine Iniative (IAVI)
- Applied research and product development
- Enabling a country research environment
- Established clinical sites and trained local scientists and
health care workers
Next Steps
• Enabling local insight and capacity for independent
advice is key to implementing the AAA
• Working Party on Aid Effectiveness is currently in
the process of renewing its mandate to address the
AAA commitments
• Independent research institutes have an important
role to play
• Clear contribution from academies in the health
sector
Further Information
• OECD work on Aid Effectiveness
– www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness
• Accra High Level Forum
– www.accrahlf.net
• OECD/DAC aid statistics
– www.oecd.org/dac/stats
• 2007 Development Cooperation Report
– www.oecd.org/dac/dcr
• High Level Forum on the Health MDGs
– www.hlfhealthmdgs.org