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Commonwealth Progress Since 2005

Commonwealth Implementation of the Paris Declaration Samantha Attridge, Economic Affairs Division Senior Officials Meeting, CFMM 30 th September 2009, Cyprus. Commonwealth Progress Since 2005. Commonwealth Position. Areas of Good Practice - Donors. Untied Aid

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Commonwealth Progress Since 2005

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  1. Commonwealth Implementation of the Paris Declaration Samantha Attridge, Economic Affairs DivisionSenior Officials Meeting, CFMM 30th September 2009, Cyprus

  2. Commonwealth Progress Since 2005

  3. Commonwealth Position

  4. Areas of Good Practice - Donors • Untied Aid • UK, Australia –demonstrated political leadership, untied 100% • Support and Use of Country PFM Systems • Limited association between quality of system and use by donors. • CIDA “Centre of Excellence” • UK putting this at the forefront of their agenda • UK commitment to budget support, supports activities aimed at improving PFM • Choice of aid instrument important

  5. Areas of Good Practice - Donors • Avoiding parallel implementation structures • UK commitment to not establish any new PMUs • Donor coordination – joint analytical work • Australia and New Zealand – joint operations, delegated cooperation arrangements • UK – established joint donor offices, shares specialist staff and entered delegated cooperation arrangements

  6. Areas of Progress – Recipient Countries • Reliability of Country Systems (PFM and Procurement) • General improvement “up-stream” PFM reform tasks relevant to budget preparation procedures, rather than strengthening implementation. • Ghana and Zambia moving beyond upstream improvements to strengthening more difficult processes surrounding budget execution. • Procurement – CW marginally outperform NCW (Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda B scores) • Procurement – Bangladesh – strengthened, established new procurement law and seen a large increase in use of donors

  7. Areas of Progress – Recipient Countries • Operational development strategies and results orientated frameworks • I1 - CW sig outperform NCW. • B Score = Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia • Countries that improved scores = 2nd generation PRSPs • I11 – mutually reinforcing relationships I1 and I11 • Uganda and Tanzania – heralded “good practice” - mutually reinforcing activities/relationship I1 and I11 • Despite considerable progress still far from target and no country achieved highest score

  8. Slow Progress Areas - Donors • Alignment of aid to national priorities • individually less than 50% of CWD aid is recorded in government budgets • Aid predictability • individually on average less than 50% of CWD scheduled aid was disbursed in 2007 • Use of country PFM and procurement system • limited association between quality of systems and their use by donors

  9. Slow Progress Areas - Recipient Countries • Results orientated framework • slow progress area, only three countries achieved largely developed results-orientated frameworks (all CWRC Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda) • Limited support has been provided by donors in this area • Mutual Accountability • problem area, no progress made and only 5 countries reported having mechanisms in place (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania.) • Mutual Accountability – some countries that perform well in mutual accountability also appear to do well on ownership and results-framework indicators.

  10. Discussion points • In areas of progress • What has been the key drivers of the success? • What is it that made improvement possible? • In areas of slower progress • What have been the obstacles to improvement? • How might these barriers be overcome?

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