Putting Development Results First in Africa

1. AfCoP’s Contribution Putting Development Results First in Africa Solomon Mhlanga, Zimbabwe Meeting of the AfCoP-MfDR May 24, 2011 – Nairobi, Kenya

2. ROADMAP TO EFFECTIVE MFDR 2003 2005 2008 2011

3. CHALLENGES IN ACHIEVING RESULTS THROUGH AID Aid is a catalyst for development. However, it can incur: • Cumbersome administration costs • Prolific and uncoordinated number of indicators, donor missions, reports, audits, accounts. Numerous parallel structures. • A focus on short-term • Driving attention away from reform • An impact on governance • Weakens social contract, blurs responsibilities, donors acting like opposition • Wrong choices of activities • Donors impose agenda and ignore country needs • Weakened country ownership, capacity and accountability

4. MFDR AND THE PARIS DECLARATION The Five 2005 Paris Declaration Principles: • Ownership Developing countries take the lead in determining goals and priorities of their own development. • Alignment Developing countries develop national development strategies and donors must support and use strengthened country systems, for data collection. • Harmonisation Donors coordinate their actions to avoid duplication and adopt common procedures for aid delivery. • Mutual Accountability Developing and donor countries are mutually accountable for results. • Managing for Development Results Developing and donor countries focus on achieving and measuring development results.

5. PROGRESS SINCE PARIS DECLARATION • 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey: • Measuresprogress of donor and developing countries • 91 countries participated • Overallprogress for donors and partnersis mixed • Evaluation of Paris DeclarationImplementation • 21 countries in 2011 including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia • WP-EFF focus countries • Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, and Mali

6. AFCOP AND THE MFDR AGENDA AfCoPis: • Advocatingkeyresultsprinciples • Helping to permeateMfDR practices in the dailywork of members • AfCoPmembersresponded to Paris Declarationsurvey • Participating in the OECD-DAC SupportedWorking Party on AidEffectiveness’ Cluster E – Global Partnership on MfDR • AfCoPisvalued as primary source of MfDR good practices • Member participations in meetings • Participating in Consultative Forums throughmembers • 2ndAfrica Meeting on AidEffectivenes, Tunisia, Nov. 2010 • Forum on AidEffectiveness in Rural Dev., April 2011

7. Context • Budget difficulties in traditionaldonor countries • End of Growing Official Aid Budgets • Growth of 2% a YearFrom 2011-2013 (OECD-DAC) • Need to Leveraging New Resources and Improving the Dysfunctional International Aid Architecture • New Aid Architecture • Middle-Income Countries, China • Large NGOs • Transnational corporations • Pressure to DeliverResults • Stock Taking of Progress Since Paris Declaration • Progress Toward the MDG Targets

8. MFDR AND THE 4TH HLF • Technical Discussions • Political Messages • High-Level Agreements & Outcomes

9. What This Means for Africa The 2010 Tunis Consensus: • Building capable states • Developing democratic accountability • Promoting South-South cooperation • Thinking and acting regionally • Embracing new development partners • Outgrowing aid dependence A focus on results: • Strengthened country systems to be used by development partners for data collection and analysis • A focus on the outputs and outcomes in all aspects of public sector management

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