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Mutual Accountability

Mutual Accountability. The PRS approach/ Paris Declaration and the Africa Partnership Forum. Presentation by Fletcher Tembo, WV UK at ODI Workshop on Southern Voices for Change in the International Aid System, held at ODI office, London 15 th November, 2005.

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Mutual Accountability

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  1. Mutual Accountability The PRS approach/ Paris Declaration and the Africa Partnership Forum Presentation by Fletcher Tembo, WV UK at ODI Workshop on Southern Voices for Change in the International Aid System, held at ODI office, London 15th November, 2005 Donor Commitments Instruments for Transparency & Enforcement Third Party Assessments

  2. Overview • The PRS- Paris Approach • Mutual accountability framework (World Vision, UK study) • Mutual accountability framework (the World Bank 2005 review of the PRS) • Issues/ ways forward • The Case of the Africa Partnership Forum/ Africa Peer Review Mechanism

  3. The PRS- Paris Declaration approach to mutual accountability • Argument: a) offers a strong signal for country ownership and donor coordination/ harmonisation (b) the pooling effect on donors e.g 4th Pillar in the World Bank’s new Strategic Framework for Assistance to Africa (c) gives a chance to pursue multiple forms of accountability.

  4. Mutual Accountability : definitional issues • Mutual accountability • “when two or more parties have shared development goals, in which each has legitimate claim that the other is responsible for fulfilling, and where each may be required to explain how they have discharged their responsibilities and be sanctioned if they fail to deliver” DFID’s definition, cited in de Renzio et al, draft paper for this workshop, emphasis mine. Donor Commitments Instruments for Transparency & Enforcement Third Party Assessments

  5. Traditional institutions media Civil Society Civil Society Parliament Parliament • PRS CYCLE • - Policy • Budget • Aid flows • Trade strategies Who ‘owns’ what? Who is accountable to whom? EXTERNAL CONSTITUENCY DOMESTIC CONSTITUENCY Children, women, poor families media CITIZENS Decentralised donor agencies Private sector Decentralised govt DONOR AGENCY GOVERNMENT From consultation to influence and accountability From conditionality to mutual accountability Adopted from de Renzio

  6. (Trade) Government Polices, Programs, Public actions Poverty- and results-oriented Well-implemented more aid Participation predictable harmonized aligned Domestic Constituents PRSP External Actors Institution and capacity building agenda Analytic Underpinnings Mutual accountabilitySource: Presentation by Linda Van Gelder and Elliot Harris of WB/IMF, based on 2005 PRS Review Overview Balancing Accountabilities Scaling Up Results

  7. links to budgets Lack of prioritization and specificity Conditionality effective monitoring Government Polices, Programs, Public actions Poverty- and results-oriented Well-implemented Volume and modalities of assistance institutionalized participation: who, when, how, what Limits on policy space more aid predictable harmonized aligned Domestic Constituents PRSP External Actors Institution and capacity building agenda Analytic Underpinnings Some factors that can tilt the balanceSource: Presentation by Linda Van Gelder and Elliot Harris at WB/IMF annual meetings, based on 2005 PRS Review Overview Balancing Accountabilities Scaling Up Results

  8. Greater prioritization and specificity Greater prioritization and specificity Aid modalities that support domestic accountability Aid modalities that support domestic accountability links to budgets links to budgets Government Polices, Programs, Public actions Poverty- and results-oriented Well-implemented Government Polices, Programs, Public actions Poverty- and results-oriented Well-implemented more aid more aid effective monitoring effective monitoring predictable predictable institutionalized participation: who, when, how, what institutionalized participation: who, when, how, what harmonized aligned harmonized aligned Domestic Constituents Domestic Constituents PRSP PRSP External Actors External Actors Institution and capacity building agenda Institution and capacity building agenda Analytic Underpinnings Analytic Underpinnings (Re-) Balancing accountabilitiesSource: Presentation by Linda Van Gelder and Elliot Harris at WB/IMF annual meetings, based on 2005 PRS Review Overview Balancing Accountabilities Scaling Up Results

  9. Issues from Zambia and Bolivia case studies/ Ways forward • Institutionalisation of participation of civil society/ dealing with the question of legitimacy? • From systems to support mechanisms that enhance voice/transparency/exit (Paris agenda) e.g. Zambia • Harmonisation of agendas/ development cooperation then instruments

  10. Government-Donor Coordination in Zambia Source: Mwanawina, I (2005): Assessment of aid mgt capacity in Zambia GRZ GRZ/DONORS DONORS Permanent Cabinet Aid Coordination Committee Consultative Group (CG) Meeting Ambassadors' Donor Group AID COORDINATION SECRETARIAT Aid Management Steering Committee Donor Coordination Meeting Donor Sector/Thematic Working Groups Aid Management Technical Committee Quarterly Minister of Finance Meetings Six monthly Sector/Thematic Group Meeting Public Expenditure Review Examples of Sector/Thematic Groups PEMFA Joint Technical Working Group Mining Working Group Agriculture Working Group Joint Country Assistance Strategy Working Group Private Sector Development Forum

  11. Issues/ ways forward • Unless the PRS process is mainstreamed, it cannot drive mutual accountability, in which case it is not just capacity building/ address political interfaces • Enforcement through both horizontal and vertical means (appropriate discourse of development) bearing in mind political economy issues • Opening up the macro-economic policy & PSIA debate re: national participatory processes should be a priority

  12. The Case of the Africa Partnership Forum • To undertake mutual review of progress on commitments to the implementation of the NEPAD programmes and to determine what high level political interventions may be necessary • Implementation of NEPAD projects • Speeding up the APRM • Donor side commitments

  13. Africa Partnership Forum • Issues • Forum for specific NEPAD projects, could this mean less monitoring of donor commitments to specific African countries. National PRS subordinated, “ - - - to speed up the integration of NEPAD indicative plans into national development programmes and/or PRSPs to enable realisation of MDGs” Nuhlu, 2005 p.15. • CSO monitoring through gender and CSO Unit, available space but is there danger of cooption? • Possible solutions • NEPAD should remain a think-tank and de-linked from watch-dog roles, African Monitor proposal, shadowing of the APF

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