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Main conclusions and implications for EU Delegations
Training Seminar – 7th of July
Maxime MontagnerDEVCO Unit D2 « Civil society, local authorities »
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•Rationale and methodology of the SD
•Outputs & institutional Follow-up
•Selected recommendations & implications for EU Delegations
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The Structured Dialogue: Why?Internal & external incentives
• Important changes after the Palermo Process
Evaluation of EC aid delivery through CSOs European Court of Auditors Report Mid-term review of the NSA&LA thematic Programme Capitalisation of support programmes
to NSAs&LAs (9th EDF)
•The principles of the Paris Declaration &
the Accra Agenda for Action
claim for a broad-based ownership
of development strategies.
Conducive for EC effort to enhance its partnership
with CSO & LAs3
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WG1: Role of CSO&LA in EU external cooperation (from programming to evaluation)
WG1: Role of CSO&LA in EU external cooperation (from programming to evaluation)
WG2: Complementarity and coherence within the Aid Effectiveness Agenda
WG2: Complementarity and coherence within the Aid Effectiveness Agenda
WG3: EU aid delivery
mechanisms
WG3: EU aid delivery
mechanisms
Policy-informing debatesPolicy-informing debates
Operational debatesOperational debates
Based on topics agreed-upon during preparatory phase
Sequencing of discussions
April 2010/March 2011
November 2010/March 2011
April 2010/March 2011
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• Participation of CSO and LA from EU Partner countries has been systematically promoted. More than 700 representatives from over 65 Partners countries have been gathered during SD events;
• At European and global level: 10 main European Platforms of Civil Society Organizations have been involved, representing the different sections of CS as well as Platforma.
• Member States and Members of the European Parliament have been actively involved as well as EC and 51 EU Delegations.
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Extensive consultation & exchanges and unprecedented support
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Events: 13 Workshops & Regional
Seminars
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Intermediary Outputs & Main Results
•Reports drafted after each event (in Brussels & regional
seminars)
•Final Declaration & Concluding Paper with key messages
and recommendations
• 12 Technical fiches on funding & selection mechanisms
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Announcement in Budapest: which institutional follow-up?
• Communication of the EC on Engaging with CSO & LA in development cooperation (2012)
• DEVCO Unit D2: Stable institutional interface for CSO and LA
• Thematic programme NSA&LA to be reshaped to support more particularly CSO&LA platforms at different levels
• Integration of Structured Dialogue conclusions in EU position on Aid Effectiveness
• Update of methodological tools for EU Delegations, including on aid delivery and selection mechanisms
EuropeAidSelected recommendations: which implications for EUD?
On enabling environment for CSO:
The EU should commit to and promote an enabling environment for
CSOs as independent development actors in line with
internationally agreed commitments
The EU is called on to base budget support decisions upon
assessments of government commitment to respect and promote
democratic values and practices, human rights, accountability and
CSOs and LAs involvement
EuropeAidSelected recommendations: which implications for EUD?
The EU should promote and support regular, structured and
inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogues to increase trust,
complementarity and mutual accountability across stakeholders:
(i) long-term, predictable and independent funding (for research,
advocacy and networking) should be envisaged to empower CSO
and LAs (particularly representative organizations)
(ii) EC guidelines on dialogue and consultation should be followed and
possibly redefined
(i) more efforts should be made, including around consultations, to
improve the accessibility and quality of information.
EuropeAidSelected recommendations: which implications for EUD?
On CSO right of initiative & accountability:
The EU should respect and actively promote the right of initiative of
CSOs avoiding unwarranted governmental interference. Adequate
political and financial support (free from State control) should be provided
to CSOs, including defending civil society’s space when necessary.
European CSOs are called on to (i) acknowledge that the initiative of the
identification of local development needs relies primarily on local CSOs,
(i) enhance their understanding of the mandate and priorities of local
counterparts through research and dialogue, (iii) be responsible to their
local partners' priorities and accountable towards them.
EuropeAidSelected recommendations: which implications for EUD?
On territorial approach to development:
The EU is prompted to attach a fundamental importance to
decentralization (e.g. by including indicators linked to local
governance in the set of conditionalities to donors’ partnerships with
national governments).
Local governments and the associations representing local
governments should be recognised as legitimate development
partners and should be systematically invited to engage in policy
dialogues.
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On knowledge management:
Strategic mappings should be regularly conducted and updated to
identify the most relevant actors, yet going beyond the known
beneficiaries
Sufficient resources and guidance should be made available so as
to develop, apply and monitor CSO and LA engagement strategies
and practices. In particular, networks of both CSO & LA focal
points in EUD should be strengthened and developed.
Selected recommendations: which implications for EUD?
EuropeAidEU aid delivery and selection mechanisms
Possible solutions identified (I)
• 12 technical briefs covering different aid modalities and mechanisms
• General consensus on strengths and weaknesses of those modalities
• Calls for proposals to be complemented by more diverse mix of aid modalities (operational toolbox)
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Possible solutions identified (II)
Operational toolbox should focus on: • providing a flexible set of responses adaptable to different local situations;
• incorporating sensible actor differentiation;
• allowing for more strategic and effective pursuit of development objectives by both donors and partner organisations.
EU aid delivery and selection mechanisms
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Possible solutions identified (III)
• Commission proposal for 2012 review of Financial Regulation globally welcomed as step in the right direction:
- more flexible rules for regranting- core funding for non-EU organisations- possibility of EC-managed trust funds- more flexible co-financing rules
• Next update in the context of the new Financial Perspective
• Financial Regulation offers sufficient flexibility (!!)
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Possible solutions identified (IV)
Concrete examples of possible tools:
• Simplified calls for proposal application process
• Regranting for improved access to funding by
grass-roots organisations
• EC-managed trust funds for strengthened aid effectiveness and donor harmonisation• Ringfencing and full financing to promote involvement of specific types of actors• Programme funding for better strategic focus and enhanced sustainability• Core funding for advocacy work and capacity-building
EU aid delivery and selection mechanisms
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Main challenge: how to operationalize
recommendations?
- Which specific support would EUD need from HQ so as to improve their strategic engagement with CSO&LA?
- Tools, guidelines, toolkit are already existing…Are they effectively disseminated and used by colleagues in EU Delegations?
- Which content for a potential forthcoming EU Staff working paper which would build on results of the SD?
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Maxime MontagnerDEVCO D2 « Civil society, local authorities »