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Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
Walk the Talk? Implementing Division of
Labour - Austrian Experience
Austrian Development Cooperation
Ministry for European and
International Affairs
(FMEIA)
Austrian Development Agency
(ADA)
Department for Development
Cooperation and Cooperation
with Eastern Europe
The operational unit of the
Austrian Development
Cooperation
Austrian Development Cooperation
FMEIA
ADA
Overall-coordination of the
Austrian public development
cooperation
Implementing Austrian development
cooperation strategies and programmes
Formulation of development
cooperation strategies and
policies
Policy-dialogue in Austria and at
international level
Management of bilateral development
cooperation budget
Policy dialogue in Austria and partnercountries
Advising the FMEIA and other Austrian
public institutions
Acquisition of external funding
Geographic Focuses and Local Offices
Sector priorities
The Austrian Development Cooperation offers and implements special
know-how in following priority areas:
Water & sanitation
Rural development
Energy
Privat sector development
Education & science
Governance (incl. peacebuilding
and conflict prevention, human rights)
Cross-sectoral themes
Poverty reduction
Environment
Gender
Public finance and democratisation
Governance (incl. peacebuilding
and conflict prevention, human rights)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) 2010*
* According to the preliminary figures on 2011 aid flows reported to OECD/DAC, Austria spent 796.08 million euros on Official Development
Assistance (ODA), which corresponds to 0.27% of the gross national income (GNI) The final figures for 2011 will not be available until about
the end of August 2012.
Official Development Assistance (ODA) 2010*
* According to the preliminary figures on 2011 aid flows reported to OECD/DAC, Austria spent 796.08 million euros on Official Development
Assistance (ODA), which corresponds to 0.27% of the gross national income (GNI) The final figures for 2011 will not be available until about
the end of August 2012.
Partnership for effective development cooperation,
Busan, South Korea, 2011
From aid effectiveness to cooperation for effective development
The Global Partnership includes new actors based on shared principles and
common goals but differential commitments
Cooperation with the private sector
Promote South-South cooperation
enhanced efforts to strengthen partner country (democratic) ownership
Partner-led coordination of cooperation (including division of labour, joint
programming)
Improved management for results at programme and project level
Accountability by strengthening parliaments, local government and
civil society
Enhanced transparency
Accelerated efforts for gender equality and empowerment of women
Sustainable development in fragile conditions
Operationalizing Aid Effectiveness
Strengthening capacities of development partners according to their
needs
70% of all new ADA contracts (2010) include a CD component
Train4Dev initiative
Intensified use of development countries’ systems: increasingly used in
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Moldova and Western Balkans
joint PFM trainings in Albania and Burkina Faso
Alignment of ADC’s programming procedures with processes in
partner countries to improvepredictability
Joint programming with EU member states locally (where possible) and
EU Agenda for Change
Operationalizing Aid Effectiveness
Mutual accountability: adequate participation in monitoring and review
mechanisms and timely information of partner countries on scheduled flow
of resources
Joint donor analyses as public expenditure and financial accountability
(PEFA) or joint procurement assessment reports
All projects in Bhutan in water and sanitation are implemented via
national execution systems; SPSP in Uganda and Mozambique via use
of partner - systems
Multi year country allocations are part of multi annual cooperation
agreements
Optimising the mix of financing modalities and stepping up
programme based cooperaton: avoiding programme fragmentation
Operationalizing Aid Effectiveness
Upgrading domestic accountability in partner countries by
strengthening parliaments, media, audit courts and civil society
organisations
Improving management for results
Geographical and sectoral concentration in keeping with the EU
Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour (two,
maximum three, sectors per partner country, reduction to ten priority
countries by 2013)
Delegated cooperation with other donors
Participation in initiatives of various donors: EFSE, PIDG, EU
Infrastructure Trust Fund
Participation in and support of operational networks and fora: EUEI,
EUWI, Practitioners’ Network, NGO cooperation
Operationalizing Aid Effectiveness
structured dialogue with civil society on possible complementarity
and synergies for achieving the common aim of more effective
development cooperation
Gaining public and political support for development cooperation
through greater and more targeted information and communication
Emphasising political commitments to provide funds for
development cooperation
Raising the programmable budget for bilateral development
cooperation in Austria
Improving development-policy coherence overall (applying to all
ODA payments)
Managing Diversity
Managing Diversitiy and Reducing Fragmentation
Private Sector Development
Climate Change
Cooperation in fragile conditions
Delegated Cooperation: Indirect
Centralized Management
EU – ADA
Based on the
alignment of ADC’s programming procedures with processes in
partner countries and
the goal to increase aid efficiency and the leverage of
development cooperation through using synergies between donors
and development partners:
ADA intends to contribute to the practical implemenation of DoL
through an active involvement into delegated cooperations
Delegated Cooperations: ADA to a Partner
Implementation of the Energy and Environment Partnership
Programme in Southern and East Africa 2010 – 2012: cofunded
by DIFID : ADA delegates to Finland
Transfer Agreement with EC to assist the Palestinian
Authority in its reform and development agenda: ADA
supports an EU fund since 2008 with an overall amount of 4
Mio. € (so far): PEGASE mechanism: financial support to
vulnerable families in the West Bank and Gaza: social
protection mechanism
EU ADA ICM: Current Commitments
In implementation
Albania: Project Preparation Facility
EU contribution: 1.5 Mio.€
Albania: Support and Expansion of the Treasury System
EU contribution: 1.5 Mio.€+ MoFinance of Albania
Central Amercia: Energy and Environment Partnership with
Central America (EEP): EU contribution 1.5 Mio.€, ADC: 3.6
Mio.€, cofunded by Finland (MFA): 13 Mio.€
Rehabilitation of the water supply system of Nisporeni,
Republic of Moldova
EU contribution: 5 Mio.€, overall ca. 11.3 Mio.€, ADC: 3.5 Mio.€
and SDC: 800.000 € + Government of Moldova
EU ADA ICM: Current Commitments
In preparation: Delegation Agreement already signed
Technical Assistance to the Water Supply and Sanitation
Sector in Albania
EU contribution: 2. Mio.€ planned, overall: 4.2 (ADC: 2.2 Mio.€)
Socio-economic development of the Danube Region in
Serbia
EU contribution: 18.5 Mio.€, overall: 19.5 Mio.€
Experience: Water supply: Moldova
On the base of the Moldovan strategy for water and
sanitation ADA (as Lead Donor) joins hands with EU and SDC
in the Republic of Moldova for the implementation of a
comprehensive water supply and sanitation programme in
southwest Moldova/region of Nisporeni for appr. 23.000 people
EU contributes 5 Mio.€ to this programme via ADA: Delegated
Cooperation
Important:
Clear and focused concentration on sectors: Moldova: WSS
and VET
Active role in the selected sectors: WSS sector dialogue in
Moldova (sector coordination council) and ADA as Lead Donor
in a multi donor project
Active Donor in VET
Experience: ADA cooperation in Uganda
Uganda: Concentration on Water/Sanitation and Justice
Concentration in the sector: Lead in Water and Sanitation
sector in 2010/11 and an active donor in justice sector
Use of Sector Wide Approaches, Programme based aid and
joint funds
Joint Assessment Framework to measure development
progress
Challenges with ICM - Implementation
all actors (implementing agencies, EU-delegations, partner
country institutions) are still in a learning process
knowledge in EU Delegations of systems and procedures
related to indirect centralized management and preparedness
to apply the modality
coordination/consultation between the responsible EU
Delegation and the Commission’s headquarters
In general, the terms and conditions set out in the
Delegation Agreement do not favor delegated cooperation in
the context of larger / joint programs or basket funds
Concluding
ADA: in principle positive experience with delegated
cooperation
Reducing fragmentation is not only a technical matter but a
profoundly political task, that requires political commitment!
Even if commitment exists - implementation remains a
challenge
Being a relatively small agency makes it easier to join forces
with others (examples in Central America, Moldova, Albania)
Permanent dialogue between policy and implementing level
is crucial