Transcript Making better use of research on chronic poverty

Engaging with Civil Society -
Presentation to 4th Annual meeting of the Practitioners
Network for European Development Cooperation
Roy Trivedy
Head Civil Society Department
DFID
May 2011
Slide 1
Objectives and Structure
Objectives
Structure
• Share experience and learning
• Why support CSOs
from work with civil society
• Explore possible areas for
future collaboration
• DFID’s Portfolio Review and
recent changes
• Areas for discussion and
increased collaboration
Slide 2
Why work with Civil Society?
• CSOs can respond quickly and
flexibly to humanitarian needs
• Often better at supporting
particular groups of poor (eg
community based orgs and
Disabled Peoples Groups)
• “CSOs help relieve poverty by
reaching disadvantaged
groups and geographical areas
that governments often fail to
reach”
Slide 3
But limited evidence of…
• CSOs (individually or
collectively) enabling
chronically poor to organise
and do things for themselves
• CSOs consistently performing
more effectively than other aid
modalities
Which CSOs does DFID support and how?
• Diverse range of Southern and Northern based organisations (including
NGOs, CBOs, Faith and diaspora groups, research and policy institutes..)
• Unrestricted grants: 20% of portfolio
• Central Funds: 4 central funds plus humanitarian and in-country
• Indirect funding: through joint initiatives eg. Comic Relief’s Common Ground
Initiative and the Disability Rights Fund
• Pooled funds: increasingly used - channelling approx 40% of funds
• Via multilaterals: Hard to trace – over £160m through World Bank, EC, UNDP,
UNFPA, UNICEF
Slide 4
DFID Afghanistan
DFID Nepal
Liberia
DFID Mozambique
DFID Pakistan
South
Asia
Division
DFID India
£80M
Middle East, Caribbean,
North Asia Division
DFID Indonesia
£23M
Other
Iraq
DFID Vietnam
DFID Caribbean
& Nicaragua
Latin America
DFID Cambodia
Other
DFID Ghana
DFID Sierra Leone
DFID Malawi
DFID Zambia
Other
DFID Bangladesh
West &
Southern
£63M
DFID Nigeria
DFID Zimbabwe
DFID DRC
DFID Burundi
DFID Rwanda
Other
Country
Programmes
£170M
DFID Ethiopia
East &
Central
Africa
£273M
DFID Tanzania
£67M
Africa Conflict & Humanitarian
Africa Regional
Department
= Fragile State
DFID Southern Africa
DFID Uganda
DFID Sudan
DFID Kenya & Somalia
Pan-Africa Strategy & Programmes
£40M
= PSA Country
= Budget Support Country
= PSA & Budget Support Country
DFID
£515M
Other
World Bank
Multilaterals
Minimum £160M
Trade Policy
Unit
Europe &
Donor Relations
Policy &
Research
Directorate
Central
£242M
Evaluation
Department
Slide 5
Research
& Evidence
£141M
UNDP
EC
Civil
Society
Dept.
Communications Division
Growth & Investment
£175M
Governance &
Social Development
Climate & Environment
Human Development
Conflict, Humanitarian
and Security
Size and composition of DFID’s support
• Total spend £515m - 15% of
bilateral programme (08-09)
- £242m (47%) central
- £273m (53%) through
country offices
• Good evidence on project
outputs/outcomes but difficult
to aggregate results
• Plus £160m through
multilaterals such as World
Bank, EC and UN
Slide 6
Where and what…?
• Most spend - on delivering
goods and services
• Almost 66% spent in fragile
states
• Spend by country ranges from
over 30% in Bangladesh,
Liberia and Burma to 3% in
India and Ethiopia
Five objectives for DFID’s work with civil society
1. Deliver goods and services
2. Empower citizens to be more effective in holding
governments to account and to do things for
themselves
3. Build and maintain capacity and space for active
civil society
4. Enable CSOs to influence policies at national,
regional and international levels including on aid
effectiveness
5. Build support for development by encouraging UK
citizens to contribute internationally
Slide 7
Key changes in 2010-11
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Ceiling on DFID funding - max 40% of org income
Balance between support for small, medium and larger CSOs
DFID focal countries + HDI bottom 50
More competition, stronger focus on outcomes, outputs and VfM
Reducing advocacy and increasing focus on tangible results
Pre contract due diligence work
Encouraging matched and performance based funding
Transparency Guarantee
More emphasis on use of evidence and independent evaluations
Increased emphasis on generating learning and changing practice
Slide 8
Results and VFM
…..shared agenda, DFID wants civil society to be as effective as
possible in eradicating poverty.. same agenda for all –
multilaterals, governments, CSOs and private sector…
Critical factors in improving effectiveness of CSOs:
• Having a clear vision and plausible ‘theory of change’
• Measureable results – outputs and outcomes
• Sound and evolving partnerships strategy
• Being well led/governed with robust organisational processes
• Diversifying sources of income
• Maximising value through contribution
• Commitment to transparency, learning and improved practice
Slide 9
Areas for Discussion?
How can we:
• Improve the transparency and delivery
of tangible results through CSOs?
• Help protect the space for civil society
to organise and contribute more?
• Make better use of multilateral
instruments such as EC Structured
Dialogue process to drive a stronger
focus on results and systematic use of
evidence in work with CSOs?
Slide 10