Transcript JAS 2 - Poverty Monitoring

Joint Assistance Strategy for
Tanzania (JAST)
Poverty Policy Week
Creative and Hard Work, the Key to
Fighting Poverty
Presentation by the Ministry of Finance
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Presentation Outline
1. Introduction
2. Why do we need a JAST?
3. What is JAST?
4. JAST development process
5. JAST main features/principles
6. Conclusion
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
2
1. Introduction
 Aid management reforms
 The aim of aid management reforms – aid
effectiveness
 The Tanzania Assistance Strategy (TAS), 2002
 TAS thought to ensure that external resources are
transparently and effectively delivered, managed,
and accounted for, with the view of assisting to
attain the national development and poverty
reduction goals
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
3
1. Introduction, Cont.
 TAS focused on four priorities
 Aid predictability
 Integration of external resources into the GOT budget
and Exchequer system
 Harmonisation and rationalisation of processes
 Capacity building for aid coordination and external
resource management
 Substantial progress during the TAS implementation
(2002/03 - 2004/05) - in almost all the above 4
priorities
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
4
2. Why do we need a JAST?
But despite progress made under TAS, …
GOT ownership needs further strengthening at all levels,
Parallel systems and un-harmonized practices
Continued provision of off-budget financing
Continued multiple missions, meetings and analytical
studies
 MKUKUTA) and MKUZA demands
 International commitments on aid effectiveness
(Monterrey 2002, Rome 2003, Marrakech 2004, Paris
2005)





Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
5
3. What is JAST?
 National medium-term framework for managing




development co-operation between GOT and DPs so as
to achieve national development and poverty reduction
goals
JAST to be implemented at all levels of GOT in existing
national, sector and local processes
DPs to adopt the JAST to guide their development cooperation relation with GOT
Overall objective: achieving results on MKUKUTA /
MKUZA and other national development and poverty
reduction programmes
Intermediate objectives: aid effectiveness
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
6
4. JAST development process
 Broad participatory approach
 GOT JAST Sector Group
 DPs JAST Core Group
 jointly worked on the development of JAST
 Government prepared JAST Document in early 2005
 Final draft JAST Document in May 2006
 Official launch - 5 December 2006
 Government led process
 Joint JAST Working Group
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
7
5. JAST main features/principles
 National Ownership
 Mutual and domestic accountability
 Aid modalities and scaling up of ODA – General Budget
Support (GBS), the GOT preferred modality
 DPs increasingly move to GBS
 Basket funds will be used where it is seen appropriate by the
GOT
 Direct project funds will be utilized for large-scale infrastructure
investment, for piloting and for emergency aid
 Direct Project funds will also continue to be used to support
NSAs
 Existing basket/direct project funds that do not fit in these
categories will be phased out over the medium-term
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
8
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 Principles for using basket and project funds:
 Support national, sector and local priorities, strategies,
plans and programmes, and be based on the GOT’s
request to undertake such activities outside GBS;
 Be integrated in the national budget process;
 Operate within GOT structures, systems, regulations
and procedures and be consistent with achieving
sustainability, complementarity, low transaction costs
and local ownership;
 Be designed and implemented under the same
conditions as other Government funded activities;
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
9
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 Alignment & Harmonization – Using and
strengthening national processes, systems, procedures,
etc. (Budget, exchequer & accounting, procurement ,
etc.)
 Capacity development – build sustainable capacity at
all levels of Government to manage the development
process,
GOT to support capacity development of
Parliamentarians, Councillors, politicians, and nonstate actors
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
10
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 Capacity development – development partners’ role
 DPs to respond to national capacity needs
 DPs to increasingly rely on GOT systems and structures –
elimination of parallel PIUs
 Provide TA as a means to facilitate sustainable capacity
development
 Demand-driven and untied TA
 TA management - GOT administrative system &
structures
 TA policy formulation to guide the use and management
of TA
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
11
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 Division of labour – rationalize engagement,
increased
use of comparative advantage
Use of competitive advantage
use of delegated cooperation arrangements
Assessment is primarily based on a DP’s
established international and field office expertise,
based on past successful experience
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
12
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 Dialogue – creating a structure for improved dialogue with all
relevant stakeholders, at all levels and processes, and in
particular on governance and accountability
 Guiding principles:
 Government leadership
 Involvement of all relevant stakeholders
 Domestic accountability
 Openness, frankness and mutual trust
 Minimisation of transaction costs through simplification and
rationalization
 Transparent, timely, clear and accessible information sharing
 Establishment of follow-up mechanisms
 Strengthened Sector dialogue
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
13
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 JAST action plan and monitoring framework
 The action plan operationalizes the JAST
 Action plan organised around the five objectives of JAST:
1) National ownership and Government leadership of the
development process
2) Aligning DP support to Government priorities, systems,
structures and procedures
3) Harmonising Government and DP processes
4) Managing resources for achieving development results
5) Strengthening domestic and mutual accountability
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
14
5. JAST main features/principles, Cont.
 JAST Monitoring and Evaluation –
to take two
forms:
1. Joint JAST review by GOT and DPs in consultation with
NSAs
 Annual JAST review, using existing processes
(NSGRP/ZPRP, PER, GBS, sector reviews, etc.) and
information generated therein to the greatest extent
possible – output: JAST annual implementation report
 Comprehensive mid-term and final review – output: midterm and final review reports
2. Independent Monitoring Group (IMG)
 Mid-term and final assessment of JAST with a view to
facilitating mutual accountability – output: IMG report
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
15
6. Conclusion
 Tanzania’s development partnership has made substantial
progress in enhancing national ownership and aid effectiveness
 With the JAST, we now have the opportunity to take a major step
forward on our national as well as the international (Paris) aid
effectiveness agenda
 JAST is an inclusive process, involving ALL DPs – progress
under the JAST depends on balancing the need to move forward
on key issues with the need for inclusiveness
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
16
THANK YOU
Nov 19, 2007
Poverty Policy Week
17