Transcript EUROPEAID ACTION PLAN TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF …

EuropeAid
Dublin,
21st September 2009
Koos Richelle
Director General
EuropeAid Cooperation Office
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Outline of Presentation
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1. Funding and global context
2. Facts & Figures in 2008
3. External aid & Innovation
4. Quality
5. Aid Effectiveness
6. Organisation
7. Outlook end 2009 and beyond
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Funding and global context
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EU and EC aid implementation
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EU the largest donor in the world
• 27 + 1 donors together responsible for 60% of
all development aid (2008: 48,6 billion)
• USA provides 22%
European Commission on its own:
• Second largest donor of humanitarian aid
• Third largest donor of development aid
(11%, after USA and Germany)
• Present in aprox. 140 countries
Based on OECD/DAC figures 2009
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Official Development Assistance
Percentage of Gross National Income:
actual 2008, forecast 2010, objective 2015
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0,8
0,6
2010
2015
2008
0,4
0
Sweden
Luxemb
Denmark
Netherla
Ireland
Belgium
Spain
UK
Finland
Austria
France
Germany
Portugal
Greece
Italy
Cyprus
Slovenia
Lithuan.
Malta
CzRep
SlovRep
Estonia
Poland
Hungary
Romania
Latvia
Bulgaria
0,2
Source: OECD DAC where available. EC data base on MS information to the EC or the DAC for
2008. EU DAC Average: 0.42% in 2008 compared with 0.38% in 2007
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Ireland – funding levels through history
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1400
1200
1000
800
ODA $M
600
400
200
0
1974 1980 1990 1995 2000 2003 2005 2008
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Source: OECD/DAC website www.oecd.org/dac/stats
Ireland – ’09 OECD/DAC peer review
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☺ Poverty reduction is overarching goal
☺ Aid is well concentrated on limited number of
very poor African countries
☺ Enhanced policy coherence for development
☺ ODA funding has increased by 90% since
2003, reaching USD 1.3 billion in 2008
Ireland’s financial contribution keys to EC:
Budget: 1.42
10th EDF: 0.91 (up from 0.62 under 9th EDF)
Source: OECD/DAC Peer review Ireland, 2009
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The EC and the external aid budget 2008
External aid: €12.8 bn
(9%)
Non-EuropeAid
Budget: €3.3 bn
(26%)
Commission budget inside EU:
€124 bn (91%)
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EuropeAid EDF
fund: €4.8 bn
(37%)
EuropeAid Budget:
€4.6 bn (37%)
EuropeAid implements external assistance. This excludes pre-accession aid,
humanitarian aid, and Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) aid. EC total budget
includes European Development Fund (EDF). NB – 2008 provisional figures (April 09)
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EC development programmes
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Average annual commitments 2007-2013
• Pre-accession, 7 countries
• Neighbourhood, 17 countries
• 10th EDF, 78 ACP countries / OCTs
• Development, 48 countries
• Development, sugar, 18 ACP
• Development, thematic
• Human rights & Democracy
• Stability (post crisis)
• Nuclear safety
• Humanitarian aid
1.6 billion
1.6 billion
3.7 billion
1.4 billion
180 million
800 million
160 million
290 million
75 million
802 million
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The EC and Non State Actors (NSAs)
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• NSAs are full actors in the field of development:
• Participation of civil society in the definition,
implementation and monitoring of development
policies
• Strengthening of civil society is an objective in
itself
• Search for a better complementarity between
state and non-state actors at national, regional
and local level
• EuropeAid funding opportunities:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/funding/index_en.htm
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EuropeAid
Facts and Figures in 2008
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Financial commitments in 2008
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Budget & EDF commitments 2008
Planned: €7.3 bn - we did €9.3 bn
Budget
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4
EDF
3
2
1
'02
'03
'04
'05
'06
'07
0
'08
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Paid out in 2008: €7 billion
Record year for project implementation
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Budget
5
4
3
EDF
2
1
0
'02
'03
'04
'05
'06
'07'
'08
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Geographic distribution of funds - 2008
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In M€
Neighbourhood
south: 1137M
19%
Neighbourhood
east: 318M
5%
Africa,
Caribbean,
Pacific: 3443M
60%
Asia: 673M
11%
Latin America:
310M
5%
EuropeAid spending per region, ODA and OA, ACP including South Africa and Bananas
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Distribution of funds by horizontal
programme - 2008
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2008, payments per thematic programme, in M€
Stability
instrument:
34M
4%
Nuclear safety:
75M
8%
Democracy &
human rights:
112M
12%
Thematic
programmes*:
690M
76%
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* Thematic programmes include: non-state actors & local authorities, investing in
people, gender, environment, migration and food security
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External aid and innovation
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Innovation (a)
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• The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Fund: mobilise private investments to fight
climate change & poverty. EC investment = €80 M
2007-10
• Neighbourhood Investment Facility: EC grants
with European Finance Institutions to generate large
projects on energy, social, transport & environment.
EC invest. = €50-70 M per year
• EU-African Infrastructure Trust Fund:
interconnecting Africa through large regional
programmes. EC investment = €108.7 M
• EU-ACP Peace Facility: African-led peace support
operations and capacity building activities in the field
of peace and security. EC investment = €300 M for 17
2008-2010
Innovation (b)
• 7 MDG Contracts in 2008 (1,521 M€): Burkina EuropeAid
Faso, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda,
Zambia
Aid more predictable, targeted at good
performers
o Longer term time horizon: 6 years vs. 3 years for
traditional budget support
o Larger predictable share: >70% against 50%-70%
o Annual performance tranche up to 15% &
contract review after 3 years to determine tranche
on basis of MDG-related result indicators (at least
15%)
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• Mali Migration Centre
• First co-financings/delegated cooperation with
EU Member states
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Quality
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Quality
EuropeAid
AIDCO has a system in place to ensure and improve
the quality of our operations covering the whole
project cycle from the
design phase, through the…
implementation phase, to …
ex-post evaluation of impact
and sustainability
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Quality Implementation (a)
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ROM* performance feedback 2008
No. of countries visited
No. of monitoring reports
Billion euro covered
149
1249
5.5
Stable performance on-going projects:
Very good performance
Good performance
Performing with problems
Major problems
2007
2008
4%
67%
21%
8%
3%
71%
20%
6%
Improvement in African countries
* ROM = results oriented monitoring
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Quality Implementation (b)
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Joint monitoring
Two types:
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joint monitoring carried out with other
donors - ongoing dialogue within the family of
international donors (in the context of Aid
Practitioners Network)
joint monitoring implemented together with a
partner government - AIDCO is developing a
new methodology based on our positive
experience in Ethiopia
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EuropeAid
Aid Effectiveness
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Aid fragmentation in Bangladesh
UNICEF
1%
UNDP
1%
Norw ay
2%
Sw eden
2%
Germany
2%
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IFAD
1%
Sw itzerland
1%
The Global Fund
1%
11 smallest donors <
1%
United States
3%
Denmark
3%
IDA
33%
Canada
4%
Netherlands
4%
Japan
5%
EC
5%
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UK
13%
AsDF
19%
Aid fragmentation in Bangladesh
UNICEF
1%
IFAD
1%
UNDP
1%
Norw ay
2%
United States
3%
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Sw itzerland
1%
The Global Fund
1%
6 smallest donors <1%
Canada
4%
Japan
5%
IDA
32%
AsDF
18%
EU countries + EC
taken together
EU
31%
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The Road Ahead:
EuropeAid Action Plan
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Action plan - Priorities based on Paris & Accra
Core business for All - Not only a task for experts
1. Use of country systems: TC/PIU backbone
strategy; budget support and decentralised
management
2. Division of labour: fast tracking initiative,
delegated cooperation if needed
3. Untying of aid: assessment; revision of
reporting
4. Predictability and transparency: assessment;
International Aid Transparency Initiative
5. Conditionality: assessment
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Delegated cooperation
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Status September 2009
52 agreements in pipeline:

38 delegation agreements aprox. €214 million

14 transfer agreements aprox. €126 million
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Ireland has not yet requested to be eligible
for delegated cooperation
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Ireland – ’09 OECD/DAC peer review
☺
Ireland is “champion” in making aid more
effective
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Full untying of aid
☺
No use of parallel project implementation
units
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Good performance in use of national
systems, sector wide approaches, use of
pool funding
☺
Works closely on division of labour and
coordination
Source: OECD/DAC Peer review Ireland, 2009
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EuropeAid
Organisation
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EuropeAid comparative study of
aid implementation processes
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Objectives & Methodology
• To compare aid implementation processes:
average time frames; decision-making at HQ and
in field offices; procedures
• Challenge to compare 5 different donors (EC,
AfD, SIDA, DFID, DGIS)
• Matrix to compare processes
• Interviews (HQs & 3 partner countries)
• Consultation & validation by MS
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Main findings comparative study:
Timelines Total
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From start of Programming to start of Operations - weeks
DGIS
68
SIDA
100
EC
120
DFID
120
AFD
Approval*
= 20 wks
122
0
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*Approval = translations, Comitology &
EP scrutiny at both programming &
design stages
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60
80
100
120
140
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Outlook end 2009 and beyond
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Outlook 2009: developments & challenges EuropeAid
• Aid effectiveness: driving the agenda and
action plan forward; EU-US cooperation
• Quality: more focus on results-orientation, data
quality
• Institutional change: new Commission, new
EP. Lisbon Treaty (?)
• Review: mid-term review of the financial
framework, strategy papers, instruments
• Responding to the international context:
financial, economic, climate and food crises (and
migration). Challenges, but also opportunities?
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Commission Spring Package
Challenges for the longer term
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• Aid effectiveness: post Accra/Paris, 2010?
• MDGs: post 2015?
• Results: how we can systematically present
and communicate results? Is the ‘Resultaten
Rapportage’ the anwer?
• Development assistance beyond shared EU
competence: is there still a need for bilateral
aid from EU Member States?
• ‘Finalité de l’aide’: how long will we continue
to deliver aid and finance large shares of
budgets of partner countries? Should we already
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stop aid to Middle Income Countries?
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THANK YOU!
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