18 th Meeting of the Management Group on Statistical Cooperation

1. 18th Meeting of the Management Group on Statistical Cooperation Luxembourg, 14th – 15th April 2016 Update on Development Cooperation Dorota Panczyk-Piqueray, Economist DG DEVCO, Policy and Coherence Unit (A1) dorota.panczyk@ec.europa.eu +32-2-299.13.45 http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/home_en

2. EU Development Policy Framework • Lisbon Treaty (2009): • Article 21, Treaty on EU – sets out principles and objectives for EU external action • Article 208, Treaty on the Functioning of the EU – the EU development policy shall pursue reduction and, in the long term, eradication of poverty. It emphasizes the complementarity and mutual reinforcement of the Union's and MS development cooperation policies. It refers to PCD 2. European Consensus on Development (2005): • Joint vision of the EU & MS, defining common objectives, values, principles • It provides the overall framework of the EU development policy • Reflects the EU's and Member States objective to eradicate poverty and build a more stable and equitable world

3. EU Development Policy Framework cont. 3. Agenda for Change (2011) => • Overarching objective => Poverty elimination in the context of sustainable development • Why this policy update? => • Changing geography of poverty • Developed/developing distinction breaking down • More financing options available to developing countries • Graduation of countries • New actors in development cooperation • Policy priorities • Human rights, democracy and other elements of good governance • Inclusive and sustainable growth for human development • 20% of EU Aid to support social inclusion and human development • 20% of EU budget to contribute to low-carbon resilient societies

4. EU Development Policy Framework cont. 4. Comprehensive partnerships, global presence: • Cotonou Agreement, 2000 – 2020, with ACP countries • EU Strategy for Africa • EU-Latin-America • Asia 5. Commitment to aid effectiveness: Paris Declaration (2005), Accra Agenda for Action (2008), Busan Partnership Document (2011), Addis Ababa (2015) 6. EU Code of Conduct on Division of Labour (2007) => enhance complementarity and division of labour amongst EU donors 7. Policy Coherence for Development => coherence of development policies and other policies implemented by the Union

5. EU - a major development player In 2015 - EU and its Member States provided about €68 billion in official development assistance (up 15% from 2014), more than 50% of total • The EU's collective ODA/GNI ratio reached 0.47% in 2015, an increase compared to the 0.43% reported for 2014 figures In 2014, the Commission => 4th biggest single donor in the world (€12.4bn) EU gives support to all countries that are fragile or conflict-affected Committed to ensuring that all EU policies support development in developing countries (PCD)

6. EU aid (2004-2014)

7. Country differentiation and Sector Concentration • 1. Country differentiation => • Target resources where they are needed most to address poverty reduction and where they could have the greatest impact (Allocation of EU aid based on needs, capacities, commitments and performance, as well as the potential EU impact, special focus on Neighborhood and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as fragile countries) • New types of cooperation and new partnerships with more advanced developing countries (diversification of aid modalities e.g. loan-grant blending, technical cooperation, twinning, etc.) • 2. Sector Concentration • Before = > European Commission present in 10 sectors in average (ranging between 5 in Mongolia to 12 in BF) • After => EU activities will focus on a maximum 3 sectors per country; 79% of NIPs have maximum 3 sectors

8. Enhanced coordination of EU & MS 1. Programming documents based on partner countries' own strategies and synchronised with partner countries’ strategy cycles 2. Joint EU & MS multiannual programming documents (strategies), with a sector division of labour + indication of financial allocations per sector/ donor 3. Open to non-EU donors 4. Started in 2012/2013: 55 countries consulted/identified (by January 2016: 25 Joint Strategies (draft/finalised) and 30 Joint Analyses (draft/finalised)

9. DEVCO Results Framework 1. Main purpose => to enhance accountability and communication to stakeholders (e.g. tax payers, EU Institutions). 2. It measures aggregated results achieved against strategic development objectives (Agenda for Change) measured through a set of 77 indicators at different levels (impact, outcome/output and organisational performance) 3. Results harvested from completed projects and programmes using a contribution approach. Switch towards ongoing reporting envisaged in next future. 4. Annual Results Reports issued (first Report in ISC). 5. First review foreseen for end 2016 to integrate Agenda 2030.

10. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1. Adopted at the UN Summit in September 2015 2. Brings together follow-up to MDGs and Rio+20 => poverty eradication and three dimensions of sustainable development + peace, governance, gender etc. 3. Universal– applies to all countries – very important shift 4. Broader means of implementation => focus not only on money (or ODA) – Global Partnership mobilising all means and all actors

12. The EU response to the 2030 Agenda • 1. Universal agenda =>should be reflected in internal and external policies of EU and its MS, we have to play our part • 2. Will need to embed Agenda across COM => break silos and ensure policy coherence • 3. CWP 2016 foresees the non-legislative initiative 'Next steps for a sustainable European future'which will takeaccount of internal and external implementation of the SDGs • 4. External side: • The HRVP’s EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy should set out the strategic direction for the full range of external action, taking into account the need for the EU to implement the 2030 Agenda. • Likely revision of the development policy framework (Consensus/AfCh) to better respond to 2030 Agenda

13. 2030 Agenda – Monitoring • 1. 241 global indicators => elaborated by the IAEG during 2015, endorsed by the UNSC in March 2016, now to be adopted by ECOSOC in July 2016 and UNGA in September 2016 • 2. Quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data is crucial for monitoring, policy making and making sure that no one is left behind • 3. Importance for strengthened statistical capacity building in developing countries (particularly African countries, LDCs, landlocked developing countries, small island developing states and middle-income countries) => area of strengthened cooperation between DEVCO, Eurostat and MS => importance of focus beyond Europe • 4. Technologies and big data => ways to strengthen data availability in developing countries – respect for Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (issue of privacy, confidentiality etc.)

14. Thank you for your attention

15. Information sources EuropeAid website http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm Capacity for development connecting the development community http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/ European Development Days latest thinking on development cooperation http://eudevdays.eu/