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Roundtable 3: Enriching the Paris Declaration

Roundtable 3: Enriching the Paris Declaration. Democratic Ownership: Alignment, Co-operation and Harmonisation. Paris Declaration: a Starting Point. Some sticky issues for CSOs How “enrich” a Declaration that you would like to see redrafted? Power imbalances & politics

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Roundtable 3: Enriching the Paris Declaration

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  1. Roundtable 3: Enriching the Paris Declaration Democratic Ownership: Alignment, Co-operation and Harmonisation

  2. Paris Declaration: a Starting Point • Some sticky issues for CSOs • How “enrich” a Declaration that you would like to see redrafted? • Power imbalances & politics • Paris principles and the PRSPs

  3. Accra: an opportunity • No new commitments or targets, but… • …an Accra Agenda for Action! AAA

  4. Can the AAA broaden ownership? WOMEN’S GROUPS GRASSROOTS ORGS Democratic / local ownership means recognising the importance of… THINK TANKS CHURCHES FARMERS ASSOCIATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES PARLIAMENT …and paving the way for their participation in the policy process LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND MANY MANY MORE • the private sector…

  5. What democratic ownership implies Governments should: • improve transparency and access to information, especially around budgets & procurement • support CSO capacity to monitor the policy process (e.g. APRM in Ghana) • work with CSOs to develop alternative policy solutions, drawing on local knowledge “from the base”

  6. What this means for alignment Donors (including CSOs!) should: • reduce those conditions that stifle domestic policy space • facilitate policies, not design them (e.g. Burundi; IFAD) • support Southern CSOs in demanding democratic accountability

  7. What this means for harmonisation • All stakeholders (including CSOs) could coordinate better to reduce transaction costs… • …but not only around national plans and PRSPs • Multi-stakeholder co-ordination works best when it’s sector-specific (e.g. EFA-FTI) and decentralised.

  8. Better monitoring post-Accra? • New indicators of democratic ownership? • Quality of participation • Transparency • Use of conditions • CSO involvement in monitoring • “Not just the Bank”

  9. Towards HLF-IV • “Partner countries commit to take the lead in coordinating aid … in dialogue with donors and encouraging the participation of civil society and the private sector” Paris Declaration 2005 ENSURING BEIJING 2010

  10. MERCI ! THANK YOU !

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