Transcript Aid Effectiveness presn for Brazzaville

Effective Aid?
From Paris to Accra
to Doha and Beyond
GERT DANIELSEN
PROGRAMME SPECIALIST, UNDP
11 MAY 2009
TODAY’S PRESENTATION
 What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
 Any progress since Paris?
 What came out of Accra?
 What is the UN response?
 Access to more information
 Q&A, Discussion
WHAT IS THE PARIS DECLARATION?
 Millennium Summit 2000, Summit+5
 Monterrey (FfD) 2002, Rome 2003, Paris
2005, Accra 2008 (AAA), HLF4 2011
 OECD, WB, Regional Banks, civil society
 Monitoring Surveys 2006 and 2008
 PD Implementation Evaluation
Paris Declaration on Aid
Effectiveness, March 2005
 Who endorsed it?
 35
donor countries
 26 multilateral donor agencies
 56 countries that receive aid
(recently more)
 14 civil society organisations present
 Roadmap to deliver more effective aid:
 56
specific commitments
 12 indicators of progress
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness:
12 Indicators of Progress (1/2)
Ownership:
1. Partners have operational development
strategies.
Alignment:
2. Reliable country systems.
3. Aid flows are aligned on national priorities.
4. Strengthen capacity by coordinated support.
5. Use of country systems.
6. Strengthen capacity by avoiding parallel PIUs.
7. Aid is more predictable
8. Aid is untied.
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness:
12 Indicators of Progress (2/2)
Harmonization:
9. Use common arrangements or procedures.
10. Encourage shared analysis and joint
missions.
Managing for Development Results:
11. Results-oriented frameworks.
Mutual Accountability:
12. Joint/independent country reviews of aid
effectiveness.
Paris-FfD Principles
 Effective development cooperation -
an integral part of global partnership for
development
 Development cooperation guided by a
shared set of development goals,
owned by all stakeholders.
 National development priorities and
IADGs constitute this agreed framework for
development cooperation
From Monterrey and Paris
Outcome
2005
FfD
ECOSOC
symposia
and HLD
Doha
Dec. 2008
PD
DCF
Monitoring
progress,
CCIs, CSOs
Accra
Sept. 2008
TODAY’S PRESENTATION
 What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
 Any progress since Paris?
 What came out of Accra?
 What is the UN response?
 Access to more information
 Q&A, Discussion
ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS?
Ownership
PDI 1
17% vs 12,5% (target 75%)
Poor predictability
Alignment
Little progress with aid on budget
Some improvement on untying
Some improvement on PFM systems quality
Little use of systems, no ‘quality correlation’
ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS?
Harmonisation
Some progress on PBAs
Some progress on joint missions, studies
Managing for Development Results
Challenges in monitoring national devt plans
Unrealistic performance matrices
Mutual Accountability
Need for donor-country balance
CS and parliaments to come onboard
TODAY’S PRESENTATION
 What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
 Any progress since Paris?
 What came out of Accra?
 What is the UN response?
 Access to more information
 Q&A, Discussion
WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA?
Accra Agenda for Action
 Predictability – donors will provide 3-5
year forward information on planned ODA
 Partner country systems – first option
for aid delivery
 Conditionality – switch from prescriptive
conditions to countries’ dev’t objectives
 Conditionality – conditions made public
WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA?
 Broad ownership – more engagement of
civil society and parliaments; CD for all
 Gender equality, environment, HR,
disability – integrated into national plans
 Country-led division of labour – across
sectors and countries (2009)
 Commitment to engage with CSOs
 Situations of fragility - special efforts
WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA?
 Monitoring – donors to align with country
information systems
 Incentives for AE – authority to donor
field offices and staff incentives
 Untying – restrictions relaxed to allow best
quality-lowest price purchases
 Link to MDG Event and FfD Doha – SG
asked to convey AAA message
TODAY’S PRESENTATION
 What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
 Any progress since Paris?
 What came out of Accra?
 What is the UN response?
 Access to more information
 Q&A, Discussion
WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE?
 UNDG Practice Note and Action Plan
 UNDG Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
 Capacity development for AE
implementation (DoL for agencies, funds)
 UNCT implementation of the Paris
Declaration
 Country and CS facilitation
WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE?
 Support in RRMs (CGs, RTs, JAS)
 Aid policy, AIMS and PFM linkage
 Peer-learning, tripartite cooperation
 Sharing best practices (CoP)
 CSO, gender, HR, MICs, new donors
 HIV response, post-crisis contexts
 UN positioning, UNCT facilitation
UNDP ENGAGEMENT IN BS, FUNDS
 Growing demands from governments and the recent TCPRs
- reports:
 “UNDP engagement in direct budget support and pooled
funds” (DP/2008/36)
 “The role of UNDP in the changing aid environment at
the country level”, DP/2008/53) in September 2008.
 The Executive Board issued two decisions and endorsed a
four-year pilot period, enabling UNDP to provide limited
financial contributions to a sector budget support fund
and/or pooled fund (Decisions 2008/24 and 2008/29).
 Main contribution: capacity development. Soon:
Respective guidance note for COs on options and approval
processes
OPTIONS FOR UNDP ENGAGEMENT
UNDP support in a DBS environment in four ways:
1. Standard UNDP project for policy advisory services and
capacity development support;
2. Managing a pooled fund upon request by a
government;
3. Signing on to a sector budget support fund or a pooled
fund as a non-fund provider or “signatory without”
fiduciary obligation”, or becoming a non-signatory with
observer status in the respective partnership group;
4. A financial contribution to a sector budget support
fund or to a pooled fund.
COs can undertake an appropriate combination of options
TODAY’S PRESENTATION
 What is the Paris Declaration (PD)?
 Any progress since Paris?
 What came out of Accra?
 What is the UN response?
 Access to more information
 Q&A, Discussion
ACCESS TO MORE INFORMATION
www.undg.org/index.cfm?P=219
www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness
www.accrahlf.net
www.devaid.org
www.aideffectiveness.org
UNDG: [email protected]
NY: [email protected]
Panama: [email protected]
QUIZ
OECD-DAC
AAA
HLF
RRM
AIMS
TBC
OBRIGADO
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
Which tools will help the CO/CT?
What are CT challenges?