Official Development Assistance in Central Europe ODACE

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Official Development Assistancein Central Europe
(ODACE)
Katarzyna Kardas Representative, ODACE Program,
Poland June 10th, 2005 - Trieste, Italy
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Agenda

• History
• ODACE Management Model
• Capacity Development
• Trilateral Programming

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Impetus for ODACE

• Accession to the European Union (May 2004)
• requirement to provide Official Development
  Assistance
• CIDA Graduation Strategy
• gracious exit/like-minded donors
• transforming relationship to colleague donors
• UNDP Emerging Donors Program
• CIDA Pilot Project
• A model of Strengthening Aid Effectiveness
  principles

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ODACE a unique program

• Transforming aid recipients into donors
• A unique opportunity for an established aid
  agency
• to help create and strengthen new counterpart
  organizations
• A way of easing the graduation process and
  building a longer-term relationship
• A contribution to donor harmonization and
  alignment
• Increasing the net quantity of international aid
  available to the developing world

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The ODACE Structure

• Approved in November 2001
• 12 Million, 6 years (2001-2007)
• Expanded from 4 to 8 countries
• (V 4 B 3 Slovenia)
• Two Components
• Capacity development and Institutional support
• Trilateral programming

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ODACE Management Model
CIDA is its own Executing Agency

• ODACE management team
• CIDA Program team leader 1
• Field office (till August 2005)
• Canadian Co-ordinating Organization
• Canadian Bureau for International Education
  (CBIE)
• logistics, administrative and programming
  support
• CIDA Resource Network
• over 80 CIDA personnel
• Consultants
• external consultants, recently retired CIDA staff

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Building Blocks

• Institutional framework
• Policy framework
• Constituencies of support
• Human resources
• Financial resources
• Programming
• Delivery

• MFA study visits and IDP consultancy
• Strategies developed
• Study visit for MPs
• Internships/training
• Study visit for Min Fin
• CDPFs drafted
• NGOs, academics, private sector capacity
  developed

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Capacity Development

• Ministries of Foreign Affairs
• training for ODA officers appropriate
  legislation/policies
• Ministries of Finance raising awareness of ODA
• need for multi-year financing
• Parliamentarians raising awareness of ODA
• value of political support
• Non-governmental Organizations
• facilitating coordination field-work and ME
  training
• Academia
• study tours, development studies seminars
• Private Sector
• raising awareness of ODA and role played by Cdn
  businesses

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Completed Capacity Development

• Completed phase of capacity building component
  (March 31st, 2005)
• Trilateral underway/ensuring readiness
• Additional training/capacity-building may
• be undertaken under auspices of trilateral

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ODACEs Trilateral Component

• Why engage in trilateral projects?
• to operationalize the new capacity
• as a form of action learning
• to finalize the transition to fully-fledged
  donors

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What are Trilateral Projects?

• Projects in third countries that are funded on a
  matching basis by CIDA and the Partner Country
• Projects that are approved by the Partner Country
  but endorsed by CIDA
• The MFA enters into an agreement with CIDA and is
  accountable for ODACE funds
• The MFA enters into agreements with executing
  agencies and disburses funds

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Prerequisites for Trilateral

• the ability to absorb external funds
• the capacity to manage the projects, either
  directly or via an implementing arm
• a mutually-agreed selection process that is seen
  to be fair and transparent
• an agreement that advice from CIDA be integrated
  into the selection process
• joint monitoring and evaluation of projects

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Trilateral Projects

• 32 Trilateral Projects underway
• Slovakia (18)
• Hungary (8)
• Czech Republic (4)
• Lithuania (2)

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Differing Models

• Internal management capacity
• - Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
• Semi-autonomous implementing
• arm - Czech Republic
• Trust Fund
• - Slovakia
• Legal framework
• - Poland, Slovenia?

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WE BELIEVE THAT ODACE PROVIDES A USEFUL MODEL
FOR TRANSFORMING CIDAS RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER
GRADUATING COUNTRIES!