Are we really serious about ownership

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How serious are we about ownership?

• Introductory Presentation
• Javier Santiso
• Director and Chief Development Economist
• OECD Development Centre

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A busy year for the Global Forum
Accra High-Level Forum 2-4 Sept 2008
DeFiNe
EmNet
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The message true ownership requires local
policies

• But how can developing countries generate local
  policy options when
• donors have created an unmanageable non-system
  of international development finance and
• donors dominate the production of development
  knowledge?

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The international non-system is expanding
Private
Public
BilateralDonors
Global Programmes
NGOs
MultilateralDonors
Other private non profit
Private for profit
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GFATM GAVI Global EnvironmentFacility Fast
Track Initiative/ Education for All
InternationalNGOs
DAC donors Incl. bilateral development banks and
agencies
Foundations
Firms
World Bank
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IMF
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UNDP
National NGOs in donor countries
Households (e.g. remittances and other private
transfers)
Commercial Banks
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EC
Regionaldev. banks agencies
Other OECDdonors (non-DAC)
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National NGOs in developing countries
Private Investors
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UN SpecialisedAgencies
Others, e.g. Islamic Dev. Bank
Emerging donors
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Financing mechanisms are multiplying
Source Financing Development 2008 Whose
Ownership? OECD Development Centre Based on Kaul
and Conceicao (2006)
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Private donors are matching official aid budgets
Source Koch, D. J., in Financing Development
2008 Whose Ownership?OECD Development Centre
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Development knowledge remains donor-driven

• Northern donors and think tanks and
  Northern-controlled multilateral organizations
  dominate the development knowledge industry. In
  so doing they exert a major influence on the
  policies and decisions of governments in the
  South.
• by Norman Girvan (University of the West Indies)
• from Home-grown Solutions and Ownership
• prepared for our Workshop on Ownership in
  Practice (27-28 Sep 2007)
• See www.oecd.org/development/globalforum

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Donors fail to invest in Southern-based analysis

• Of the annual 1.3 billion of ODA on development
  research, only 6 per cent go to developing
  countries

Source An Initiative to Strengthen Policy
Analysis in Developing Countries, Rationale Paper
for IDRC-Hewlett Think Tanks Initiative, 2006,
based on OECD Creditor Reporting System
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Are NGOs better at fostering Southern views?
Only 6 per cent of NGO Board members are from
developing countries.
Source Koch DJ, in Financing Development 2008
Whose Ownership?OECD Development Centre
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Banks could also base more analysts in the South
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Developing countries lack think tanks

• More than 70 per cent of the worlds 5000 think
  tanks are based in OECD countries.

Source Foreign Policy Research Institutes Think
Tanks and Civil Societies Program (2007)
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And Southern think tanks lack resources

• How do Peruvian and US think tanks compare?

Source Santiso, J. and Whitehead, L. (2006),
Ulysses, the Sirens and the Art of Navigation
Political and Technical Rationality in Latin
America, Working Paper No. 256, OECD Development
Centre
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But local thinking is vital for governance
Number of Think Tanks and Governance Effectiveness
Source OECD Development Centre, 2008, based on
World Bank Governance Indicators (2007) and data
from the Foreign Policy Research Institutes
Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (2007).
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A small step the African Economic Outlook
The 2008 African Economic Outlook has been
produced in collaboration with local researchers
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A report on Africa in partnership with African
institutions (AfDB and UNECA).
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Development Finance Network (DeFiNe)
A global network of experts contributing to the
Global Forum
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A proposal to boost Southern research capacity

• Supporting local think tanks with endowments and
  long-term core support
• A sustainable resource base
• Greater independence
• Incentives for a market of policy ideas
• Showing the way
• Think Tanks Initiative (IDRC Hewlett
  Foundation)
• Global Forum Seminar (28 April 2008)

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Whose ownership?

• More information at
• www.oecd.org/dev/publications/finance/2008
• Join the discussion at
• www.whoseownership.org
• (an initiative of Colombia, Switzerland and
• the OECD Development Centre)

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Thank you very much

• Further information
• www.oecd.org/dev
• www.oecd.org/development/globalforum
• Javier.santiso_at_oecd.org