Supporting Sector Programmes

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Supporting Sector Programmes

• Senior Level Session
• Sector
• city
• date

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Purpose

• Identify major issues and challenges for
  harmonisation and alignment at sector level
• Develop common understanding of the Sector Wide
  Approach, and the components of a Sector
  Programme
• Discuss possible next steps to move the process
  forward

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The Aid Agenda key SWAp concepts
Sector Approach
Sector Programme
Support to Sector Programmes
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The Paris Agenda Harmonisation Alignment
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Programme Based Approaches

• PBA is a way of engaging in development
  cooperation based on the principle of
  co-ordinated support for a locally owned
  programme of development such as a national
  poverty reduction strategy, a sector programme, a
  thematic programme or a programme of a specific
  organisation

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What is a Sector?

• Defined by the government
• Wide to ensure coherence, narrow to limit
  complexity
• Fairly coherent consistent policy
• Institutional framework
• Budget framework
• Links to macro framework

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What is the Sector Approach?
A way of working of government and partners with
three distinct objectives
Ensure local ownership over decision-making on
policy, strategy and spending.
Increase coherence between policy, spending and
actual results
Use/support/strengthen partners systems,
harmonise donor systems
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What is a Sector Programme?
A Sector Programme is a product of the Sector
Approach. It is a government (not donor)
programme

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Sector programmes 5 typical elements
Public finance management
Sector policy in macro-framework
Services and enabling environment
Accountability Performance monitoring
Institutions and capacities
Aid alignment and harmonisation
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Five means of donor support to emerging or
existing SPs
Sector programme
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Financing modalities
Other Sector national
budget revenues support
Pool Fund Donor X Donor Y
Donor X
Donor Z
Through Treasury
Co-financed activities
Projects
Sector Programme
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What a SWAp is not

• A financing modality (basket fund, budget
  support)
• Government decides, donors accept
• Donors gang up to twist arm on government
• Government and donors crowding out civil society
  and private sector

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What a SWAp can be..

• Focusing on strengthening the sector involving
  all stakeholders
• Building trust through mutual transparency and
  patient dialogue
• Dealing with the real, and often thorny issues
  and trade-offs in sectors
• Strengthening domestic ownership and
  accountability

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Typical challenges in SWAp

• For donors
• back off, take the back seat
• recognise own limited capacity to understand and
  deal with complexity
• accept that ownership is more important than
  perfection
• curb disbursement and visibility pressure
• patience and humility

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Typical challenges in SWAp

• For governments
• open books and embrace dialogue also on
  sensitive issues
• build some order in own house
• get results on the agenda, curbing patron-client
  relations
• patience and humility

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Joint challenges

• Initially higher transaction costs
• Balance quick results with long term capacity
  development
• Get a critical mass of development partners and
  national sectors aboard
• Take decentralisation into account