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Deepening Voice and Accountability to Fight Poverty

Explore the importance of government-citizen partnerships in policymaking, transparency in development cooperation, and strategies for effective communication in poverty alleviation efforts.

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Deepening Voice and Accountability to Fight Poverty

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  1. Deepening Voice and Accountability to Fight Poverty Javier Santiso Chief Development Economist & Deputy Director OECD Development Centre DFID - OECD – World Bank Paris  30 March 2006

  2. OECD Countries can still improve transparency • Free access to government information is recent: 80% of OECD Members in 2000. • Government–citizen–civil society partnerships in policymaking are still rare in OECD countries. • It’s a “new frontier” for governments and citizens alike. Source: OECD 2001, Citizens as Partners

  3. And poor practice has its risks for Government • Quality, credibility & legitimacy of policies are lost if citizen inputs are not reflected in decisions. • [OECD] governments must invest adequate time and resources • to build robust legal, policy and institutional frameworks, • To develop appropriate tools and • evaluate their own performance in engaging citizens in policymaking (OECD 2001, Citizens as Partners). • In non-OECD and developing countries the time, resource and institutional constraints are even greater.

  4. OECD-DAC donors engage citizens in development cooperation policy through: • Information & communications: transparency about aid and what it achieves sustains public support for development cooperation. • Development education about global interdependence and inequalities to strengthen global solidarity. • Support to civil society: e.g. aid-trade-debt campaigns in 2005.

  5. Financing uneven across DAC countries but increasing in most How is government communication financed in developing countries? Source: OECD Development Centre Policy Insight # 13, 2005.

  6. Majorities support democracy in Africa Source: Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 9, 2004

  7. But little public satisfaction with economic reforms in Africa Sources: Afrobarometer 2002

  8. Little public satisfaction with economic reforms in Latin America Source: Latinobarometer Report 2005

  9. Democratic trends 1976-2003: How to deal with Open and Closed Societies? How should we discriminate among political regimes when building strategies for communication for development? Source: Polity IV Project

  10. OECD Development Centre’s contribution:Coordination of a network of communicators from donor agencies-- Heads of Information (HOI) network -- • Exchange best practices on effectively communicating development results to OECD taxpayers. • Identify emerging practices on how HOI work with country staff and developing country governments for more effective communications about MDGs, aid effectiveness, etc. to OECD and developing country citizens. • Prepare a joint policy position paper on mainstreaming communication with key actors to sensitise OECD policymakers and the development community to the issue.

  11. Thank you very much for your participation

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