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UNDP/TIKA
PROJECT
TIKA
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SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION
Project Title:
Bridging South-South Cooperation and Emerging Donor Roles:
Strengthen Turkey’s Participation in International Development Cooperation
A brief introduction to the project
by: Dr. Sebahattin GAZANFER
Senior Project Advisor
9th October 2008
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What is South-South Cooperation?
> A broad framework for collaboration among
countries of the South in the political, economic,
social, environmental and technical domains.
> Semi-independent entity established by the UNGA in 1978. Hosted in UNDP since then.
> Primary mandate: to promote, coordinate and
support South-South and triangular cooperation on
a Global and United Nations system-wide basis.
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Framework in which the international cooperation
for development is based
Summary of recent developments related to MDGs
In 2000: Millennium Declaration adopted (MDGs estalished)
clear targets, around which international development will focus,
were defined.
In 2002: Monterrey Consensus underlined the importance of aid
effectiveness
In 2003: Rome Declaration on Harmonization more efforts were
urgently needed from donors and recipients to meet the MDGs.
In 2004: 2nd International Roundtable on MfDR(Marrakesh).
Main focus areas: how to improve aid effectiveness,
harmonization and alignment to national development
strategies, public financial management (including aid
predictability), procurement, and managing for development
results.
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In 2005: 2nd High-Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness
(Paris) brought donors and partners who resolved to establish
concrete benchmarks to make aid more effective.
Paris Declaration: a series of commitments were approved
based on principles of ownership, alignment, harmonisation,
managing for results and mutual accountability.
In Sep 2008: 3rd High-Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness
(Accra/Ghana) brought donors and partners who resolved to
establish concrete benchmarks to make aid more effective.
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Outcome of the
ACCRA AGENDA for ACTION
• Developing countries have committed to
take control of their own futures,
• Donors have committed to co-ordinate better
amongst themselves, and
• Both parties to the Agenda have pledged to
account to each other and to their citizens.
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SOUTH-SOUTH PROJECT AND TURKEY
Turkey;
> is becoming an advanced MIC,
> is capable of achieving the targets of the MDGs,
> despite important regional disparities, does not face the
challenge of absolute poverty (less than 2% of the total
population live under the level of absolute poverty).
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Turkey’s emerging donor role is important because;
> Turkey is an important driving force for its immediate
region due to the spill-over effect of its economic activity and
dynamism.
> The international community, including UNDP, can take
advantage of these externalities by promoting the
effectiveness
of
Turkey’s
technical
development
interventions and maximising as well the positive effects of
its programmes within the region and with other LDCs.
> Partnership with other MICs and with international
development organisations, such as UNDP, will influence
global economic/development actors to consider their
“voice” and needs of MICs (their needs and their solutions) in
shaping the global development agenda to eradicate poverty
and to contribute to the fulfilment of the MDGs.
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Turkey is in a unique position to provide expert
knowledge to the development community,
particularly in Balkans, the Middle East and in the
largely Turkish-speaking Central Asian region,
because;
>Turkey was a former recipient country,
>Turkey has deep cultural linkages,
During the recent years, Turkey extended its
development assistance to Africa, as well.
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The project aims at contributing to Turkey’s
aid effectiveness and therefore to increase the
impact of its aid interventions through the
development of TIKA’s capacities on the new
trends and methodologies of the International
Development System.
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Background information on
TCDC (Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries)
in Turkey
Three phases of Turkey’s TCDC Programme:
1) Phase 1 (1988-2000): Implemented by the SPO
2) Phase 2 (2001-2007): Implemented by the SPO
3) Phase 3 (2008-2011): Being implemented by TIKA
all with the support of the UNDP Turkey
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Background information on TCDC
Three phases of Turkey’s TCDC Programme:
1) Phase 1 (1988-2000): Implemented by the SPO with the
support of the UNDP
11 meetings held in Turkey with the participation of developing
countries for “Capacity and Matching Exercises”.
As a result of these meetings 350 TCDC projects accomplished
through bilateral technical cooperation agreements.
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Background information on TCDC
2) Phase 2 (2001-2007): This phase was aimed at
supporting the cooperation through the
activities such as vocational in-service training
programmes, study visits, missions, workshops.
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Background information on TCDC
2) Phase 2 (2001-2006): This phase was aimed at supporting the
cooperation
through the activities such as vocational in-service training programmes, study visits,
missions, workshops.
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Main areas of intervention:
UN Millenium Development Goals,
Democratic governance,
Small and Medium Sized Enterprizes (SMEs),
Information and Communication Technologies,
Crisis Prevention and Disaster Management,
Improving the capacities of individuals and
institutions, which are responsible for the
organization of technical cooperation activities,
Alignment of EU Accession Process and UN
Millenium Development Goals.
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3) Phase 3 (2008-2011):
UNDP/TIKA “South-South Cooperation Program”
The intervention will focus on Turkey’s Middle Income
Country (MIC) Status. Therefore,
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Special attention will be paid on the technical
cooperation needs that are unique to MICs.
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GOT will contribute to the achievement of MDGs to
developing countries by sharing with other donors the
experiences and “best practices”, as an emerging donor
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The Overall Objective of the Project:
To strengthen national capacities for the GoT as an emerging
donor, through the capacity development of TIKA. It will
> promote the leadership of Turkey’s emerging donor role
within the international development architecture, and,
> contribute to the capacity development of TIKA
in preparing and managing Turkey’s development assistance
programs, in order to increase the effectiveness of Turkish
Official Development Assistance (ODA) in line with the “Paris
Declaration Principles”
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Expected Outcomes of the project
1. The first outcome:
Strengthening Turkey’s emerging donor role, will be
implemented by supporting TIKA;
> in the organising and hosting development knowledge
events (conferences, international forums, etc.), as well as,
> by promoting its participation in knowledge and action in
Global Development Forums and Networks.
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 Organising and hosting development knowledge events
(conferences, international forums, etc.)
Three such events foreseen in the project: The 1st event:
UNDP and TIKA
are very pleased
to organise jointly
a Regional Conference on
“Women and Governance
in Eastern Europe and CIS”
on 1-3 December 2008 in Istanbul
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Through the project, Turkey will have at its disposal UNDP’s
global infrastructure:
- 166 country offices,
- regional centres,
- policy institutes, and
- knowledge Networks
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2. The 2nd outcome:
Building technical and institutional capacities of TIKA
> an analysis of current situation related to skills and capacity
for development cooperation of TIKA will be undertaken through
a structured capacity assessment process, taking as basis the
principles of aid effectiveness declared on the Paris Declaration,
as well as its consequent methodologies.
The ouput of the capacity assessment will be:
> an analysis of existing functional capacity assets against
future capacity needs,
> the formulation of a capacity development plan, with
prioritised capacity development initiatives.
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The project will build capacities to promote effective and
efficient programme implementation, including:
 project management for results,
 monitoring and evaluation methodologies,
 risk analysis management,
 financial management,
 human resources management, and
 information and communication technology management.
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Three main outputs from the technical capacity development
intervention:
> A Development Assistance Strategy (+ its action plan),
at the level of aid development bilateral interventions.
> A Talent Bank of Turkish Experts
Turkish institutions (public and private) and individual experts (CSO,
academicians) to provide technical assistance abroad
> A Paris Declaration Implementation Plan
and three Country Strategy Papers (as pilot country papers) will be
elaborated at the multilateral level, in accordance with the PD principles.
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A Talent Bank of Turkish Experts
Expertise Management
Expertise Management includes the processes for sourcing, tracking and
managing the expertise of the extended workforce usually composed of
consultants, towards increased systemic performance. These processes
include:
• Sourcing/attracting/selecting experts with appropriate backgrounds;
• Defining Managing and TOR’s for selected expertise
• Performance tracking;
• Forecasting demand for expertise, to help plan the number and skills
required;
• Improved knowledge sharing; to retain the experience and build upon
previous work.
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A Talent Bank of Turkish Experts
(a tangible advantage of working in partnership with the UNDP!!!)
(no need to invent the wheel again!!!)
WIDE Roster Platform?
 WIDE (Web of Information for Development) roster platform is a webservice
platform on which institutions can create/manage/make use of their own rosters
of experts.
 WIDE offers integrated web mechanisms for:
a) gathering information provided by experts, such as resume, CVs, etc.,
b) managing the processes of screening and classification of experts as well
as support communication with experts and recommendations;
c) searching for experts under several criteria and producing a referral short
list that can be shared via email.
 WIDE also includes the solutions gateway; a knowledge sharing platform for
storing, classifying and searching for experiences.
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Thank you for your kind attention!