Ivco 2006 Forum Trends
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Trends in International Cooperationand Volunteering
2006 and the last five years
IVCO Conference 2006, Bonn
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Rapid changes over last 5 years
• The MDG strategy a central focus for donors –
shaping PRSPs & national development sttategies• Post 9/11 agenda: preoccupation with (military)
security, instability, and perhaps identity & cohesion
• Aid falls reversed: new pledges on UN 0.7% target
• Poverty regularly in news and on mainstream politicalagenda (MPH/GCAP, Tsunami, Sudan and G8 focus)
• Aspects of globalisation a reality: access (for some)to information, increased mobility, global trade,finance and employment.
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• Headline 31% rise in ODA to $106 billion in
2005, the highest level ever• DAC projects aid at $128 billion by 2010
• But - $23 billion of total was debt relief
(Nigeria & Iraq) – underlying rise 8.7%Projected aid growth with and without debt relief
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Delivering more & better aid?
• Doubts on where funds for pledged increaseswill come from once debt relief fades in 2007
• Little real new money at country level
for IVCO priorities
• IVCOs feel pressure to find place within Parisdeclaration/aid effectiveness debate
• IVCOs and the challenge of new modalities:SWAPs, PRSPs and budget support
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TC under the microscope
• Perceived need to reinforcing developingcountry ownership and accountability,
• the need to increase the effectiveness of
Technical Cooperation (TC)• DAC says: “TC and capacity development
are by no means synonymous…… a good
deal of what DAC scores as TC has little to do with capacity development”.
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Budget support
• In past, IVCOs have been concerned that GBS could
limit involvement, contribution and access to funds
• Major evaluation says moves to PGBS are slow
• PGBS can significantly promote partnership
• But not a panacea – one of a family of programmebased approaches
• Room for technical assistance and capacity buildingto be better integrated to PGBS – is this an areawhere IVCOs can contribute?
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Global Security Agenda
• Since 2003 impact on IVCOs has grown
– Countries where volunteers are prepared to go
– Increased importance placed on volunteer safety
and security raises costs of volunteer placements – Dominance of global security on the development
agenda
– Suspension of volunteer programmes in countriesaffected by conflict
– Militarization of development cooperation
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Globalised communications and IVCOs
• Positive impact:
– volunteers shop around, gain betterunderstanding of country and placement
– Harnessing ‘virtual volunteers’
• Negatives:
– Volunteers don’t integrate as well
– More enquiries test response systems
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Engaging with different actors
• Growth in private providers over 5 years• Growth in private sector collaboration
• More involvement of military• Private funders like Gates and funds
such as Global Fund for AIDS, TB &
malaria now distributing billions• When and how should IVCOs engage?
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Short term & older placements
• Growing numbers seeking shortterm placements
–Gap year phenomenon –Career break
–Skills acquisition
• Older volunteers now a key group
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Growth in 55 to 64 age group
Trend in Number of People aged 55-64 - 1980-2050
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Over the next 20 years numbers of peopleaged 55 - 64 will grow in most countries – in India & Ireland by over 50%
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15 – 29 age group stable or indecline over long term
Trend in the Number of People aged 15-29 - 1980-2050
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Percentage changes in younger age groupquite large over next 20 years
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• Central role of southern partners indefining skills needed not new.
• But demand for new types of skill: – less TA and gap filling
– more capacity enhancement and exchange
– expectation of professionalism
Clear shift over 5 years (further) away from
north - south skills transfer to a much morediverse picture
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Funding a familiar preoccupation – despite worst of aid squeeze being over
• Move over 5 years to more programmaticfunding for some IVCOs, in line with donorinterest in longer term more assured funding
• But this funding seldom open to smallerIVCOs
• Less sense of funding-led need to
demonstrate impact (less marginalisation)• Rather a concern shared with majority of
development agencies to show results
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• In 2005 the world missed the first MDG(getting girls into school)
• Can IVCOs play a particular role on gender?
• Halfway from 1995 to 2015 (proportion ofpeople in poverty halved)
• Can IVCOs conceive of a world withoutabsolute poverty (goal envisaged at socialsummit).
• Sachs says this could happen by 2025. Butwhat special contribution could IVCOs make?
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Thank you forcontributing to 2006
IVCO survey!