Maximising Accountability Around Technical Cooperation

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Maximising Accountability Around Technical
Cooperation
LenCD Conference
3 5 October 2006 Nairobi
Tessa MacArthur, Governance Adviser LS Nagarajan,
Policy Officer Donor Policy and Partnership
Team, DFID
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CONTENT
Mutual Accountability An Overview Role of
Technical Cooperation Issues / Challenges Good
Practices Discussion
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Mutual Accountability An Overview

• Recognises the need for Donors to be equally
  accountable
• Facilitates country-led approach
• Participatory
• - Common ME framework
• Options for setting up Independent Monitoring
  Group
• eg. Tanzania
• Making aid more predictable

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Mutual Accountability An OverviewContd

• International Forums addressing Mutual
  Accountability
• Besides Paris Declaration
• Economic and Social Council
• OECD DAC Donor Peer Reviews
• Global Monitoring Report (World Bank / IMF)
• Regional Forums include
• Africa Partnership Forum
• Africa Progress Panel

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Role of Technical Cooperation

• Growing vision for a mutual domestic
  accountability approach
• Inadequate human and institutional capacity, both
  in quality
• and quantitative terms
• An important input but not an end by itself
• - Provision of expertise to enhance capacity

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ISSUES / CHALLENGES

• General Criticism
• - Lack of sustainability of enhanced
  capacity
• - Cost ineffectiveness
• - Unresponsive to priority needs of the
  recipient country
• Challenges
• - Donor acct rather than domestic or mutual acct
  
• Donor responsibility rather than Shared
• Coherent systems / national policies
• Influencing donor partners for more harmonisation

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ISSUES / CHALLENGES Contd
Mutual Accountability Level Playing Field
PARTNER
Harmonised Framework
DONORS
Partner led
Other Aid Instruments Partner Govts leverage
ME
Outcomes
T C
Paris Agenda Other International / Regional/
Country Mechanisms
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Good Practices

• DFIDs How to Note on Technical Cooperation
• - Draws on our commitment to White Paper and
  Paris Declaration and our Policy on
  Conditionality
• Intensive analysis of good practices across
  various regions

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Good Practices Contd

• Identification and Design
• - Importance of Demand
• - Analysing political economy problems
• - Transactional vs Transformational
• Mutually Agree on clear outcomes with shared
  accountability
• Consider options for pooling to increase domestic
  accountability (TC in national plans, budget etc)

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Good Practices Contd

• Procurement -
• Inclusive process involving
• Partners
• Skill mix / Untying
• Exploring options for TC to be
• procured and managed by
• Partner

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Good Practices Contd

• Monitoring Evaluation -
• To move away from Project Implementation Agencies
• To be led and managed by the Partner
• Outcome based
• Recognising importance of Paris for overall
  monitoring of TC good practice at country level
  and transparency
• Better statistical reporting on TC through DAC

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SUMMARY

• Mutual Accountability reinforces donors
• responsibility for development outcomes
• TC acts as a catalyst in the process of
  strengthening
• capacity
• As set out in the How to Note, TC can be
  provided in
• a way that supports both mutual and domestic
• accountability

TC PERSONNEL
DONORS
PARTNER
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DISCUSSION

• To deliberate on
• Key observations
• Existing gaps in the current context of
  strengthening Mutual Accountability and how TC
  could complement and support domestic
  accountablity
• Three key areas that needs to be focused as
  priorities in DAC / LenCD forward work on TC