Delivering results from development cooperation Getting and demonstrating results

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Delivering results from development
cooperationGetting and demonstrating results

• Antonio Tujan Jr.
• IBON International
• Betteraid

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Are results important? Results agenda for aid
effectiveness

• Why results fundamental to aid quality reform
• Reciprocal relationship between results
  framework/agenda and aid effectiveness
  principles Ownership Accountability Managing
  for results
• For development partners assuming and managing
  risks for genuine results agenda
• Components of results agenda
• United around country targets and strategies in
  programming and planning
• Efficient management for low cost delivery
• Incorporating mechanisms to ensure results in
  inclusive program management
• Monitoring and evaluation to demonstrate clear
  outputs and outcomes

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Dangers of donor-driven results agenda - Are we
being distracted from development?

• Donor Value for money an investor framework
  averse to risk?
• Excessive focus on quantifiable short term
  development outcomes captures the development
  objective and process
• M E transformed into fetish for measuring
  outcome indicators
• Disregard of the development process and local
  actors
• Disregard of unquantifiable or difficult complex
  processes such as capacity development - (not
  everything that can be measured is important and
  not everything important can be measured
  Albert Einstein)
• Diminution of human rights approach in
  development
• The PBF the big push forward a response from
  IDS against the narrowing of what is valued and
  how value is measured

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What results, how to get results

• Development - Quality of life, opportunities for
  human potential
• Broad country ownership the start to
  determining What results are meaningful to
  country needs and strategies for development?
• Aid effectiveness
• What processes to negotiate national development
  strategies and results for aid assisted programs
• What mechanisms to incorporate rights-based
  approaches (such as empowerment, consultation and
  participatory components) in aid assisted
  programs and projects
• What affirmative mechanisms to ensure
  participation and benefit fo women and other
  marginalized sectors
• What mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation for
  affirmative and inclusive participation, coverage
  and effective attribution for development results
  in monitoring and evaluation?

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Development effectiveness results focus for
peoples development

• Development effectiveness deepens and strengthens
  effectiveness and results agenda to peoples
  development how development cooperation
  empowers the people especially the excluded to
  claim their rights and strengthens governance
  mechanisms to uphold and defend peoples rights
• Development cooperation mechanisms that are based
  on human rights agenda to ensure development
  results - empowerment, affirmative approaches,
  capacity development
• Development trajectories premised on peoples
  economic participation, welfare and benefit
• Difficulties and benefits

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Monitoring and Evaluation

• ME as inclusive country owned process
• Philippines national platform on M E
• Factors for LDCs
• capacity of state and institutions for leadership
• Champions among donors
• Readiness to engage inclusively
• Capacity of civil society and parliament for
  sustained constructive participation M E process