Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation CFTC

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Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
(CFTC)
24th Induction Programme for Commonwealth
Diplomats Farnham Castle, Surrey 5th September
2007

• Srinivas Sampath
• Adviser Head, Public-Private Partnerships
  (PPPs)
• Governance and Institutional Development Division

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Presentation structure

• What is Commonwealth Fund for Technical
  Co-operation (CFTC)?
• How to seek assistance from CFTC?
• Governance Institutional Development Division
  (GIDD)

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Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
(CFTC)

• Established in 1971
• The principal means for providing technical
  assistance co-operation between and to
  Commonwealth countries
• It is a mutual and voluntary fund and members
  contribute resources according to their ability
  and draw on them according to their needs.
• CFTCs annual budget of around UK 24 million is
  supplemented by considerable external resources
  through strategic partnerships

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CFTC

• CFTC programmes are mostly demand-led, with an
  emphasis on SouthSouth cooperation.
• The Funds work programme fits within the
  framework of the Commonwealth Secretariats
  current 4-year Strategic Plan and is developed in
  consultation with the national Primary Contact
  Points as well as the Divisional Points of
  Contact.
• It responds to requests from governments for
  technical assistance through
• advisory services provided by in-house experts.
• provision of experts to fill specific development
  needs in the short or long term
• knowledge networks
• training, and capacity enhancement

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CFTC key focus areas

• Technical assistance capacity building
  Technical assistance placing of experts that
  range from a few days to two years
• Public Service Reform and Public Sector
  Restructuring
• designs and implements strategies for improving
  governance systems, administrative restructuring
  and integrated public policy management
• assists governments in building the capacity for
  sustained public sector reform.
• Integrated packages of policy advice and training
  focus on improving performance in the public
  sector, restructuring public enterprises,
  promoting public-private sector partnerships for
  infrastructure and service delivery and public
  expenditure management

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CFTC key focus

• Training and Skills Enhancement capacity
  enhancement of training institutions to deliver
  training programmes in new and emerging areas of
  need, and training of key personnel
• Legal and Economic Advice private sector and
  capital market development, investment promotion
  draw up model licensing agreements for mining,
  petroleum and fisheries development, and assist
  governments in negotiations on natural resource
  development and maritime boundaries
• Trade, Export and Enterprise Development
  multilateral trade issues including accession to
  and negotiations with the WTO, assists
  governments in formulating export promotion
  policies, and improving products

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CFTC key focus

• Democracy Good Governance and Human Rights
  advance democracy in Commonwealth countries
  workshops to deepen democracy and strengthen
  democratic and oversight institutions
• Gender and Equality of Opportunity advance
  gender equality in member countries, including
  the integration of gender analysis into national
  budgets and programmes implementation of gender
  management systems to facilitate governments'
  gender mainstreaming efforts
• Human Development contributes to human
  development through the Secretariat's work in
  education and health

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Governance Institutional Development Division
(GIDD)

• From the Secretariats Strategic plan, GIDD is
  funded by CFTC responsible for-

• Public Sector Development - Programme 8
• Capacity Building and Institutional Development
  Programme 15
• Advisory and Consultancy Services
• Long short expert and Volunteer Assistance
  Services (Over 100 long-term and 30 short-term
  experts and 2,500 trainee)
• Fellowships, Attachments, Study Visits and
  Academic Exchange Programmes
• Specialised Education and Training Programmes

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Governance Institutional Development Division
(GIDD)

• GIDD works in four ways often in collaboration
  with other divisions of COMSEC.
• Its core business includes
• Advisory services cover areas like
  Public-Private partnerships, public sector
  reform, sub-national governance and
  administration, public expenditure management
• Training approximately 3,000 public sector
  officials are trained each year by GIDD
• Technical assistance GIDD delivers over 150 TAs
  every year
• CSAP an innovative volunteer based programme.

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GIDD

• GIDDs core business is in
• Economic social development
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Public sector reform
• Human resource development
• Public expenditure management
• Public-sector informatics- CW connects
• Sub-national governance administration
• Fighting corruption and money laundering
• Commonwealth Service Abroad Prog (CSAP)

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The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
(CFTC)
CFTC
Annual contribution
Development assistance
Commonwealth member countries
Commonwealth member countries
CFTC assistance framework
CFTC
Request from Member Govt (PoC)
Member countries
Delivery of assistance
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How to seek assistance from CFTC?

• Requests for CFTC assistance must come from
  Commonwealth governments or from regional
  organisations with a substantial Commonwealth
  membership,
• Be channelled through the designated CFTC point
  of contact
• Requests should include
• a concise statement of the problems faced, and of
  the type of assistance sought 
• a description of the project, its background,
  objectives and terms of reference 
• details of the organisation responsible for the
  project and of counterpart staff
• Terms of Reference, if appropriate and
• when assistance is needed and for how long.

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How we deliver our mandates

• Consultative Policy Meetings, Roundtables,
  Workshops
• Professional Networking
• Quality Publications (Reports, Best Practices,
  Policy Guidelines, etc)
• Project co-funding managing projects for other
  agencies

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Role in promoting PPPs

• Policy advice technical assistance
• Facilitate creation of enabling environment
• Broaden the understanding of the range of
  partnership options that exists in the emerging
  markets.
• Capacity enhancement of public sector officials
  to manage partnerships
• Ensure that both partners adhere and practice
  robust governance structures that can withstand
  independent scrutiny.

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PPP Programme

• Efforts have focused primarily on policy related
  issues on PPP, with an aim to
• Internalising PPP process within the public
  sector
• Support in institutionalisation and strengthening
  of PPP Units
• Preparing the PPP environment
• PPP Project identification and project
  development
• Preparing the Business Case for PPP projects
• Securing competitive bids, negotiation and award
• Supporting implementation and operations

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CFTCs support framework to member countries in
implementing PPP projects
Policy development (Phase I)
Capacity building training (Phase II)
Identifying partners (Phase IV)
Selection of partner (Phase V)
Development of Enabling framework/ Instns (Phase
III)

• policy development
• Develop an understanding of country specific key
  issues concepts
• Provide overview of the required legislative
  regulatory structure/reform
• Identification of country specific institutional
  structures
• Discussion with partners on modalities of
  co-operation.

• Assist Govt in developing project concepts.
• Capacity building process
• Develop deliver COMSECs country/region
  specific training programmes
• Address sector specific policy issues.
• Deployment of experts for specific issues.

• Development of enabling framework/ institutions
• Facilitate in developing the enabling law/
  supporting legislation for specific projects.
• Develop project-specific risk management plan
• Advice on consultant selection monitoring
  outputs of studies

Advice developing contractual structure Advice
draft contractual agreements Facilitate in
development of legal framework for project
implementation Advice instructions for
procurement process Advice bidding
documentation, bid evaluation
Advice finalisation of contractual
framework Facilitate execution of contract
agreement Facilitate appointment of project
specific independent auditors and
engineers Advice Technical financial close
project implementation
Downstream
Upstream
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Examples of Recent initiatives

• PPP Policy development
• Fiji, Zambia, Namibia
• Institutional strengthening capacity
  development
• Sri Lanka, SADC, Tanzania, India, Pakistan
• Transaction support
• Restructuring of airports in two countries
• Tourism sector PPPs
• Transport sector projects
• Pilot municipal PPP projects
• Urban sector PPP projects
• Long Term Technical Assistance
• Fiji (currently on hold due to the current
  situation)
• India (discussion stage)
• Sri Lanka (discussion stage)

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How to contact GIDD

• The Director
• Governance Institutional Development Division
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• Marlborough House
• Pall Mall. London SW1Y 5HX. United Kingdom
• Website www.thecommonwealth.org

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Thank You