Title: DESIGN FEATURES OF MASAF 3: UPDATE FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
1DESIGN FEATURES OF MASAF 3 UPDATE FORM FOLLOWS
FUNCTION
- IMPROVING THE QUALITY IN SOCIAL FUNDS (SF) AS
OPERATIONS WITH A COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
(CDD) APPROACH APRIL 11, 2005 - N. Mungai Lenneiye, Sr Social Protection
Specialist, AFTH1
2Presentation outline
- Beyond words
- 1. Development challenges in Malawi
- 2. Management and skills structure of PMU
- 3. Implementation arrangements
- 4. Institutional linkages
- 5. Preparation
- 6. Sustainability
- 7. Wrap-up key lessons/challenges
3Beyond words approach
- Approach kind of filters that can be used to
view a project or program. - Primary Health Care (PHC) approach had 8
elements not a single project had them all. - CDD approach in the Africa region has five
features and not a single project has all 5. - Framework a guide to action? e.g. Local
Development (LD) Framework, Social Risk
Management (SRM) Framework, etc.
4Beyond words core focus
CDD Approach SFs LG Projects LD Framework
Empower communities Empower LGs Align the centre Capacity building Accountability Empower communities Empower Local Governments Empowerment Local Governance Local service provision Private sector growth
5Beyond wordsempowerment
- Information access
- Participation and inclusion
- Accountability
- Local organizational capacity
- Plug these elements whenever empowerment appears
in the approaches and frameworks. Are there
operational implications?
6Underlying theme
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- I have the yam, and I have the knife
- (an African saying on power relations)
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- Making community empowerment a cornerstone of
decentralization keep the yam, give
them the knife! -
- Background materials
- Findings no. 233
- Paper on Who has the yam, and who has the knife?
71. Development Challenges
- First generation SFs stimulate/use social
capital. - Physical infrastructure is built by communities
- Access (health, education, water, etc.) is
increased. - Sectoral failures noted (staffing, OM, technical
backstopping, low ownership, etc.). - Little demonstrated evidence of improved
outcomes - New policies (PRSP/MTEF, Decentralization, MDGs,
etc.)
8Issues development challenges
- How should SF respond to the MDGs?
- What impact do MDGs have on sector-led planning
and the CDD approach? - How does SF respond to Local Government Projects
9Design responses
- Selected MDG indicators for community action
- (from 8 MDGs, 18 targets, and 48 indicator
targets) - Contentious selection of lending instrument.
- Bank unhappy about APL, Government very keen.
- Need to stimulate community savings and
investments - (Use of IDA funds for savings mobilization
communitys own resources for lending)
102. Management skills structure
- Management through components creates silos.
- Direct funding takes place even without Local
Governments (LGs). - Building on success of development communication
is urgent and necessary. - Need to extend community accountability upwards.
- Monitoring Evaluation is slow to evolve.
- Sectors are not too keen on direct financing.
11Issues management
- What kind of institution is needed?
- Are PMU experiences relevant to Government
management systems?
12Design responsesmanagement
- Operational requirements (deliverable
sub-projects, Fiduciary requirements) - External demands (research, training, norms)
- Internal needs (monitoring, learning)
- Getting the KISS right (Knowledge Information
Sharing System) - Local Government concerns (staff, grants, etc.)
- Performance management culture experience mainly
from private sector
133. Implementation Arrangements
Approval Authority Implementation and technical Planning and appraisal
Village Elected Cttees. Extension staff
District Committees of elected LGs Sector specialists Teams of experts
National Steering Committees Management Units in Presidents Office Sector Experts Team/Advisory Committee
14Issuesimplementation
- How can the roles of District Local Governments
be expanded? - Can can issues of technical quality be better
dealt with? - How can PMCs be made more accountable to elected
Local structures and to communities?
15Design responsesimplementation
- Delivery benchmarks were developed (CSPC)
- Roles of PMCs, LGs, CBOs/CBOs re-defined
- Graduation criteria for LGs were defined
- Measurement of inputs, outputs, and outcomes
- Community to community (C2C) learning
- Community Monitoring and Statistics Days,
Community Score Cards, Citizens Report Cards, and
annual poverty reports introduced.
164. Institutional Linkages
- Resource allocation (to districts) to facilitate
predictable planning. - Role of Local Government Ministries (with NLGFC,
LGAs Administration) strengthened - Place of NGOs, CBOs, and private sector expanded.
- Linking with MOF and MoLG over recurrent costs
and MTEF (NTAC and SET) - Fostering broader partnership (NACCEA)
17Issuesinstitutional linkages
- Can the adoption of indicative district resource
allocation formulae retain the CDD approach? - Does a SF weaken decentralization or prepare the
ground for deepening decentralization? - Are PRA tools used in SF more than planning
black boxes left to LGs?
18Design responsesinstitutional
- Global IPFs done (whole project)
- Intra-district resource targeting, NOT
allocation, done. - Open-ended PRAs adopted to strengthen
district-level planning - Support of communities with extended PRAs
- Planning black boxes still in place, unpacking
has started (see Safeguards Toolkit)
195. Preparation
- Human Development sectors (health and education)
not fully mobilized. - Other key sectors (water roads) mobilized
- Getting MFI expertise on Board (clinics held).
- Quality at Entry reviews done inside the Bank,
but more looking back and less forward-looking. - Strong Government team with outstanding
leadership
20Issuespreparation
- How would you recruit a multi-sectoral team in a
sector-dominated culture (IDA and Borrower)? - How do you respond to strong government ownership
(e.g. on MFI issues).
21Design responses preparation
- Strong government team with clear mandates.
- Collegial IDA-Borrower team members.
- Getting responsive fiduciary expertise.
- Integrating safeguards into CSPC.
- Cost-effectiveness vs. economic rates of return
utilized. - Flexibility retained (e.g. LGSP and LG MIS)
226. Sustainability
- Malawi health sector losing staff facilities
with 30-35 staffing levels. - Government revenues are dropping, poverty levels
are on the increase in Malawi. - Malawi decentralization program moving slowly
even by standards of its designers. - Spheres and not levels of Government legally
recognized in Tanzania (Village, Local
Government, and Central)
23Issues sustainability
- Can capacity building be made demand-driven?
- Are projects a sustainable way to provide
resources to poor countries? - Can Village Governments be put on equal footing
with other levels of government?
24Design responses sustainability
- Need to close service gaps for the poor
- Responding to the needs of the vulnerable
(market- and group-mediated income support) - Better linkage between investments and recurrent
funding (NTAC and SET) - Institutionalized impact monitoring of community
investments (NACCEA, the press, and MOF Quarterly
PRSP reviews) - Single National Village Fund with CE
257. Wrap-up key lessons
- Social Funds as instruments for community
empowerment (for improved governance). - Social Funds are not suitable tools to tackle
decentralization (fiscal, HRD, fiduciary) - A strong government team is an asset, Bank staff
need to be responsive. - Social Funds need to remain flexible and
responsive to new policy/program challenges (e.g.
MDGs)
26Lessons cont
- Cross-country learning possible (Malawi to
Tanzania, to Uganda, to Malawi, to Tanzania). - Inter-country exchange of experiences useful
- Consistency in team membership helps
- Banks readiness to document and disseminate its
learning from implementation experiences - Putting political commitment to good use (avoid
danger of project being called politicized)
27Key challenges existing SFs
- Integration of development communication into
general accountability mechanisms - Keeping SFs as Funds and not turn them into
technical agencies. - Move from Social Capital for closing service
gaps to Economic Capital for sustainability - Deal with operational implications of Bank
approaches and frameworks? - Is the future of SFs in Bank portfolio certain?
28Key challenges new SFs
- Ring-fencing the most recent tool for SFs-
- Central ministry/LG gets funds for capacity
building - Dedicated sector funds given to SF
- DfID for Improving Livelihoods
- IDA in Malawi for Community Land Reform
- IDA in Tanzania for
- Marine and Coastal communities
- Forest resource utilization
- Community AIDS-related treatment in Zanzibar
29SFs give the poor a chance
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- To be participants,
- not spectators,
- in the alleviation of their own poverty