Pestalozzi 7/2012 International Development Cooperation Paris Declaration.

Pestalozzi 7/2012International Development Cooperation

Paris Declaration


The Search for Effectiveness of Development Aid Debade on Aid Effectiveness

Themes:

• National Ownership: Who is in the driver seat?

• Favoring frame conditions: Good Governance

• Limits of project approaches

➔ from Project- to Program Approach


• Limted effectivity /impact

Impact restricted to direct target groups (isolated „island“ solutions)

Multiplication of strategies (up-scaling, mainstreaming) often not successful

No or limited influence on political frame conditions

Limits of the Project Approaches

• Limited Sustainability

reduced utility after external support

missing ownership because of dominant role played by internationaldevelopment organisations

• Creation of donor driven Parallel Structures

Project Implementing Units outside regular structures

regular structures are not strenghthened

Projects develop towards (dependant) organisations


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• Example Vietnam: 25 bilateral agencies, 19 multilteral Agencies, 350 internationae NGOs 8000 Projects

• Example Mosambique

49 Agencies, 840 new projects/year > 1000 Project finding-, Monitoring- and Evaluationmissions / year thousands of reports

Problems of project approaches:

high transaction costs,missing ownership and donor coordination


Development Aid in too much pieces of too much donors

Problems of coherence and coordination

Little national Ownership; Projects are donor driven

(each donor has ist own concept – each project shows the flag of the donor)

High transaction costs: different procedures and requirements

Governments are absorbed by development cooperation !!!


Instruments for new architecture of development cooperation

Basis: PRSPs as binding national development strategies Alignment and Harmonisation as binding principles

Project support: Projects/Programs of multi- or bilateral agencies as well as international or national NGOs, preferably in Partnership with national government structures or/and Civil Society actors and private sector. Main objective – capacity development.

SWAP: Sector-wide Approach. Close collaboration of donors, ministries, NGOs and private sector based on a national sector strategy. Budget of donors tranferred to budget of repsective sector ministry or to a basket fund of donors.

General Budget Support (GBS):Development aid budget are transferred to budget of partner government

Program-based

approaches

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Aid Effectiveness Commitments

Paris HLF on Aid

Effectiveness (2005)

Monterrey Consensus

Aid as partnership (2002)

Rome HLF on Harmonisation

(2003)

Marrakesh, Manging for

Development Results(2004)


The Five Pillars of the Paris Declaration

„Alignment“towards partner‘s interest

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Partnerdefine

objectives

„Ownership“ responsibility of the partners

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„Managing for Results“

Result Orientation

(Donor –

Partner)

„Mutual Account- ability“

(Donor –

Partner)

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Simplification of processes

Coordinated common support

procedures

3„Harmonisation“between donors

Orientation towards patner‘s

policies & strategies

Use of Existingsystems of the partner

Share of information


Money flow

Tay payerParliament

Backdonor PO Swissz BeneficiariesDonor PO abroad

• Projects are cooperation endeavors

• Partner – Stakeholder – more and more organized in networks

and accountability

• Transparency: Money causes dependencies and asks for accountability

• Way and quality of communication are the very success factors when implementing projects



Paris HLF on Aid


HLF 3, Accra Agenda for

Action Role of Civil

Society (2008)

Monterrey Consensus



(2003)




Accra - CSO-critic of the Paris Declaration

• Ownership ? - Important positions of the civil socoiety are not taken into account

• Alignment ? – Governments often lack capacity for implementation

• Harmonisation – Definition of „relevant“ development actors not wide enough (only actors on state level)

ignores the central role of civil society forces in the development process !Flouts democratic ground rules!

• Risque of recentralisation

• Poverty- and minority focus?

• Transaction costs are not diminuished up to now


Harmonisation Triangle,based on the Paris

Declaration

CSO Principles for Development Effectiveness

Human Rights

Gender

People-Centred Empowerment

Transparency & Good Governance

Ownership & Participation

Equitable Partnership and Solidarity

Mutual Learning

Sustainable Outcomes

Accra - Inputs to the discussion from Civil Society Organisations (CSO)


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Accra Agenda for Action, 2008

• Predictabilty

Donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on their planned aid to partner countries

• Country systems

Partner country systems will be used to deliver aid first option, rather than donor system

• Conditionality

Donors will switch from reliance on prescriptive conditions about how and when aid money is spent to conditions based on the developing country‘s own development objectives.

• Untying

Donors will relax conditions that prevent developing countries from buying the goods and services they need from whomever and wherever they can get the best quality and the lowest price.



Paris HLF on Aid


HLF 3, Accra Agenda for

Action Role of Civil

Society (2008)

HLF 4 Busan, Süd Korea (Nov. 2011)

Monterrey Consensus



(2003)




Evaluation of Paris Declaration

OwnershipAlignment

HarmonisationMfDResults

Mutual AccountabilityFort

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Overall the Evaluation finds that of the five principles, country ownership has advanced farest, with alignment and ownership progressing more unevenly, and managing for development results and mutual accountability advancing least.

… changes made by the Declaration have not yet reduced overall burden of aid management as hoped. However, they have contributed to a better quality of aid, to more transparent and effective partnerships and, to supporting rising volumes of aid.

(Final Report May 2011, page XV)


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