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Putting Development Results First in Africa

The AfCoP-MfDR meeting, held in Nairobi on May 24, 2011, under the leadership of Solomon Mhlanga from Zimbabwe, addressed the crucial challenges and successes in development results across Africa. It highlighted the impact of aid on governance, the importance of ownership, alignment, and harmonization as per the Paris Declaration, and the collective responsibility of donor and developing countries. The meeting emphasized the need for leveraging new resources, improving aid effectiveness, and focusing on measurable outcomes in public sector management to foster sustainable development across the continent.

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Putting Development Results First in Africa

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  1. AfCoP’s Contribution Putting Development Results First in Africa Solomon Mhlanga, Zimbabwe Meeting of the AfCoP-MfDR May 24, 2011 – Nairobi, Kenya

  2. ROADMAP TO EFFECTIVE MFDR 2003 2005 2008 2011

  3. CHALLENGES IN ACHIEVING RESULTS THROUGH AID Aid is a catalyst for development. However, it can incur: • Cumbersome administration costs • Prolific and uncoordinated number of indicators, donor missions, reports, audits, accounts. Numerous parallel structures. • A focus on short-term • Driving attention away from reform • An impact on governance • Weakens social contract, blurs responsibilities, donors acting like opposition • Wrong choices of activities • Donors impose agenda and ignore country needs • Weakened country ownership, capacity and accountability

  4. MFDR AND THE PARIS DECLARATION The Five 2005 Paris Declaration Principles: • Ownership Developing countries take the lead in determining goals and priorities of their own development. • Alignment Developing countries develop national development strategies and donors must support and use strengthened country systems, for data collection. • Harmonisation Donors coordinate their actions to avoid duplication and adopt common procedures for aid delivery. • Mutual Accountability Developing and donor countries are mutually accountable for results. • Managing for Development Results Developing and donor countries focus on achieving and measuring development results.

  5. PROGRESS SINCE PARIS DECLARATION • 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey: • Measuresprogress of donor and developing countries • 91 countries participated • Overallprogress for donors and partnersis mixed • Evaluation of Paris DeclarationImplementation • 21 countries in 2011 including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia • WP-EFF focus countries • Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, and Mali

  6. AFCOP AND THE MFDR AGENDA AfCoPis: • Advocatingkeyresultsprinciples • Helping to permeateMfDR practices in the dailywork of members • AfCoPmembersresponded to Paris Declarationsurvey • Participating in the OECD-DAC SupportedWorking Party on AidEffectiveness’ Cluster E – Global Partnership on MfDR • AfCoPisvalued as primary source of MfDR good practices • Member participations in meetings • Participating in Consultative Forums throughmembers • 2ndAfrica Meeting on AidEffectivenes, Tunisia, Nov. 2010 • Forum on AidEffectiveness in Rural Dev., April 2011

  7. Context • Budget difficulties in traditionaldonor countries • End of Growing Official Aid Budgets • Growth of 2% a YearFrom 2011-2013 (OECD-DAC) • Need to Leveraging New Resources and Improving the Dysfunctional International Aid Architecture • New Aid Architecture • Middle-Income Countries, China • Large NGOs • Transnational corporations • Pressure to DeliverResults • Stock Taking of Progress Since Paris Declaration • Progress Toward the MDG Targets

  8. MFDR AND THE 4TH HLF • Technical Discussions • Political Messages • High-Level Agreements & Outcomes

  9. What This Means for Africa The 2010 Tunis Consensus: • Building capable states • Developing democratic accountability • Promoting South-South cooperation • Thinking and acting regionally • Embracing new development partners • Outgrowing aid dependence A focus on results: • Strengthened country systems to be used by development partners for data collection and analysis • A focus on the outputs and outcomes in all aspects of public sector management

  10. THANK YOU

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