Enhancing Results for Development Cooperation
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Mr. Heng CHOUCambodian Rehabilitation and Development Board
Council for Development of Cambodia
November 2010
Enhancing Results for Development Cooperation
Objectives of presentation
• How the Royal Government manages aid• What government-donor coordination mechanisms
have been established• What the challenges are• What to do to enhance coordination to achieve results
• National development framework• Development partners in context• Policy on managing development assistance• Mechanisms for managing development partnerships• Experience to date
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National development framework• Rectangular Strategy Phase II for Growth, Employment, Equity
and Efficiency– Royal Government’s Political Programme for socio-economic
development and reforms– Launched Sept. 2008 at the first Cabinet meeting– Builds on the Rectangular Strategy (2004-2008)
• National Strategic Development Plan 2009-2013– Operationalizes the Rectangular Strategy Phase II– Updating the NSDP 2006-2010 to cover 2009-2013 period– Overarching national development framework– Promote national ownership of development– Alignment of development partner resources
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Contextualizing ODA
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Managing development assistance policy• Strategic Framework for Development Cooperation
Management– Institutional arrangements– Responsibilities of Royal Government’s respective ministries and
agencies– Establishes CRDB/CDC as national aid coordination focal point
• Harmonization, Alignment and Results (HAR) Action Plan 2006-2010—making aid more effective
• Managing different aid modalities– Loan financing: Standard Operating Procedures (2005)– Grant funding: National Operational Guideline (2006)– Technical Cooperation: Guideline on the Management of Technical
Cooperation (2008)5
Coordination mechanisms• Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum
– Highest level for political dialogue and review of NSDP implementation
– Resourcing of NSDP
– Endorsing the Joint Monitoring Indicators (JMIs)
– CDCF is chaired by the Royal Government
• Government-Development Partner Coordination Committee– High-level dialogue (2-3 times per year) on both political and technical issues
– Government and development partners
– Monitoring the JMIs
– Cross-sectoral issues
• Technical Working Groups– Facilitate dialogue on sector and thematic issues
– Technical level and mainly on resourcing, implementation and monitoring
– Monitoring implementation of HAR Action Plan
– Formulate and implement JMIs6
What are the challenges?Framing the issues
• Development results– Reaching the Cambodian Millennium Development Goals
– Achieving the RS II goals
– Meeting the NSDP targets
• Aid effectiveness leads to development results– Stronger national ownership and leadership
– Strengthened national capacity and systems
– Delivery of development assistance more efficient
– Results drive actions
– Improved partnership: mutual accountable for results
• Aid effectiveness commitments/actions implemented– HAR Action Plan and Cambodia Declaration on Enhancing Aid Effectiveness
– Joint Monitoring Indicator on aid effectiveness
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• Third Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum (June 2010) discussed progress in meeting national and global commitments to aid effectiveness
• Paris Declaration monitoring exercises have shown progress has been made but continued effort is required
• Public Financial Management reforms have contributed to enhanced ownership
• Most sectors now have robust sector strategies to coordinate planning, programming, implementation and monitoring
• Predictability of external financing has significantly improved
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Challenges: Five key messages• Good progress in establishing tools and processes yield limited
results. High level Royal Government and development partner leadership is required.
• Efforts need to focus on simpler measures relevant to sector and central planning/budgeting process.
• Improved partnership dynamics are needed to support multi-stakeholder processes that deliver results.
• Broader and higher level engagement in development partnerships is necessary.
• Partnership in development must increasingly focus on capacity development to strengthen national systems.
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Aid Effectiveness and Development Results: An Agenda for Action
• Development assistance to Cambodia continues to grow (USD 989.5 million in 2009 to > $1 billion in 2010).
• Leadership and capacity remain the most likely route to impact at sector level.
• Increased focus on link to outcome level results shows positive development in aid effectiveness policy.
• Opportunity for applying and extending PBAs
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Royal Government’s Decision on Programme Based Approaches: Decision dated 02
November 2010
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Linking development assistance to results: the important role of information
• Cambodia ODA Database: A Government-wide system
of recording aid as input to NSDP implementation
• Aid information systems at sectors
• Monitoring and evaluation at sectors
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Aid effectiveness: Result means BE SMART
• 2008 Evaluation: HAR Action Plan too ambitious
• Small/less may be beautiful: a facilitated process in
which fewer but more relevant activities were
identified
• Aid effectiveness Joint Monitoring Indicator: a set of
results-focus aid effectiveness activities
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Joint Monitoring Indicators: it’s the results that matter• Joint Monitoring Indicators as a framework for mutual
accountability between the Royal Government and
Development Partners
• How we jointly monitor what we are doing together:
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MfDR: what lies ahead?• Proactive embrace yet political support for results is
key
• Address scattered and uncoordinated external
support to institution building in monitoring and
evaluation
• Too many information systems yet far less results-
tracking capacity