Integrated Approach to Implementing International Frameworks

1. ECA Integrated Approach to Implementing International Frameworks Bartholomew Armah PhD Chief Renewal of planning section Macroeconomic Policy Division 30 October 2017 Djibouti Continental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System

2. ECA CHAPTER | TITLE 2 • African member states have made several continental and global commitments • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063 are not the only international commitments • Other global commitments include the; The Paris Agreement, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action SAMOA Pathway, the Vienna Programme of Action and the Istanbul Programme of Action and APRM • Meanwhile, the MDGs taught us the importance of integrating International agendas in national planning frameworks for effective implementation • But how do you embed so many agendas in national frameworks without losing coherence? An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

3. ECA Ensuring Coherence | • Effective implementation of IAGs requires horizontal and vertical coherence • Horizontal coherence: do the multiple international agendas speak to each other? • Vertical coherence: • Do the international agendas speak to the national and subnational priorities? • Internal coherence: Are the goals targets and indicators of the NDP interlinked and mutually reinforcing? (e.g., education is linked to gender which is also linked to industrial development and employment generation) • Prioritization: catalytic interventions An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

4. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Horizontal An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

5. ECA Ensuring Coherence | 5 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

6. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Mapping 6 • In cases where international agendas share commonalities and synergies implementing them separately could result in duplication of effort and in some cases policy incoherence • Commonalities: The IPoA priority area on governance relates toGoals 11 (Democratic values) and Goal12 (institutions) of Agenda 2063 and Goal 16 of the SDGs • Synergies: Improving access to energy and infrastructure (SDG 7; Priority A of the IPoA) improves agricultural productivity and food security (Priority B of the IPoA), reduces poverty (SDG 1) and facilitates economic diversification (Priority area D of the IPoA) An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

7. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Mapping 7 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

8. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Mapping 8 • Hence, a country can make progress on the three international commitments without necessarily addressing each commitment separately • Mapping the relationships between the key internationally agreed development initiatives is critical to identifying the inter-linkages across them. • Tools that present the key development initiatives and their interlinkages in a single platform are critical for advancing an integrated approach • ECA’s Integrated Planning and reporting toolkit seeks to achieve this objective An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

9. Tracking Performance| Integrated Regional Results Framework Framework ECA • An integrated Regional Monitoring and Reporting framework has been developed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in follow-up and reporting • A2063 indicators 63 • SDG indicators 61 • Total 124 •  Of which: • Fully mapped with SDGs 102 • No overlap with SDGs 10 • Africa-specific 12 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

10. ECA Tracking Performance | Regional Results Framework An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

11. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Coclusions 11 • Promote Integrated M&E systems • Develop common results framework for IPoA, Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063 based on mapping • Use one reporting mechanism to assess progress; ensures coherence • Track progress and feedback into policy improvements; ECA’s tool tracks performance • Use regional forum for sustainable development as a platform evaluate progress reports • Policy implementation and sequencing • Prioritize based on interventions that have the greatest knock-on effects on other sectors An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

12. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Vertical An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

13. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Internal coherence An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

14. ECA Ensuring Coherence | Prioritization An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

15. ECA Existing SDG Tools | 15 • MAPS: UNDG’s campaign to promote SDGs • Mainstreaming to localize SDGs (not A-’63) into NDPs and sub-national plans through sensitization and adoption of the SDGs. • Accelerationofresource mobilization to mainstreamed priorities • Policy Supportthrough coordinated development cooperation • OECD’s Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development toolkit(PCSD) • An institutional assessment tool to determine policy coherence: • Among economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of sustainable development • between international and domestic policy making and at all stages • between various global agreements and SDGs An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

16. ECA Comparing Existing SDG Tools | 16 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

17. ECA Key Features | ECA Integrated Planning and Reporting Tool • Relevant for countries that are in the process of designing their planning frameworks • For countries that have completed the integration process the tool is equally relevant for validating the quality and extent of integration • Identifies reasons for non-integration and this can be a basis for discussion with partners for support • Eases country preparations for national voluntary reporting to the High Level Political Forum and for national policy dialogue on the implementation of national development plans An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

18. ECA Key Features | ECA Integrated Planning and Reporting Tool • Assesses the degree of integration; partial or full integration • Assesses integration across the three dimensions of sustainability • Assesses alignment of sectoral results frameworks against the SDGs/Agenda 2063 • Flexible enough to incorporate additional internationally agreed frameworks • Tracks performance of NDPs over time and assess quantitative gaps between actual performance and targets • Can be used both online and off-line An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

19. ECA Integration Tools | ECA’s IPRT 19 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

20. ECA Key Requirements | ECA Integrated Planning and Reporting Tool • A coordinating entity to oversee the integration exercise: typically the entity responsible for planning • A Results Framework that identifies goals, targets and indicators • A computer with windows operating system An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

21. ECA Alignment Results | Gambia 21 Percent of Indicators Aligned with SDGs/Agenda 2063 | UNECA.ORG

22. ECA Alignment by Strategic Pillar | The Gambia 22 An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

23. ECA Conclusions | • The APRM should be part of an integrated approach to the implementation of international and continental development agendas • ECA’s Integrated Planning and Reporting Tool can be adopted to achieve this objective An integrated approach to implementation | UNECA.ORG

24. ECA THANK YOU! more info: armahb@un.org UNECA.ORG