Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in the Context of NEPAD: Good Governance and Capacity Bui

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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in the
Context of NEPADGood Governance and Capacity
Building

• Presenter Mr. Okey Onyejekwe,
• Regional Advisor on Governance,
• Development Management and Policy Division
  (DPMD), ECA

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Outline

• Introduction
• State of Governance Key Findings AGR
• Towards Good Governance Key Challenges
• Capacity Deficits Overarching Challenge
• Action Frontiers
• African States
• OECD countries
• Performance Benchmarks
• African States
• OECD countries
• Conclusion/Way Forward

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Introduction

• Consensus between Good Governance Sustainable
  development
• Significant achievements and commitments towards
  Good Governance
• Major challenges remain
• Timeliness of Mutual Review of Development
  Effectiveness

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Global commitment to Good Governance

• The following initiatives are illustrative of
  these
• Commitments
• AU/NEPAD on governance, Inaugural Summit of AU in
  Durban Declaration on Democracy, Political,
  Economic and Corporate Governance (2001, Article
  79 and 2002, Article 8)
• G-8 Africa Action Plan (2002, Article 1.1. - 1.7
  and 2.1 2.2)- Support for Capacity Building and
  Conflict Resolution Initiatives
• Commission for Africa Report

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Political, Economic Governance and Institutional
Effectiveness

• What is the current state of governance in
  Africa? Based on
• ECAs recent 28 country study on governance in
  Africa, the
• following are the key findings
• Adherence to constitutionalism
• Democratic and multiparty elections
• Macroeconomic stability and public financial
  management
• Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and PRS

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Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability

• Key Findings
• Checks and balances
• Greater independence of institutions of
  governance,
• Resilience of traditional institutions of
  governance
• Growth of Private owned media
• Independent oversight regulatory bodies
• Public-private partnerships

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Political, Economic Governance and Institutional
Effectiveness

• Key Challenges
• These gains can be threatened by among others
• Violent conflicts
• Corruption
• Lack of gender equity
• Limited progress in human rights in Africa
• Weak economic growth and continued high level of
  poverty
• Weak governance institutions

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Capacity Deficit and Governance in Africa

• One of the major findings of the African
  Governance Report is the prevalence of Capacity
  Deficits at all levels of African Governance
  Institutions

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Action Frontiers For African Countries

• Political and Economic Governance
• Deepening and extending good governance across
  Africa.
• Improvement of economic management and public
  financial systems
• Strengthen systems for increasing transparency
  and accountability

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Action Frontiers For African Countries Contd.

• Capacity Building
• Create national strategies for country specific
  capacity development
• Establish a monitoring process -Performance
  Indicators
• Retention and reversing the brain drain
• Reform of the civil service
• Strengthen and/or establish Africa-wide
  mechanisms for mutual learning

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Action Frontiers For OECD Countries

• Political and Economic Governance
• OECD support for AU conflict prevention and
  peace-building capacities
• OECD countries making effective contribution to
  transparency initiatives
• Assist African countries in policy and technical
  areas in Economic and Corporate Governance

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Action Frontiers For OECD Countries (Contd.)

• Capacity Building
• Aligning donor approaches to capacity development
  with PACT principles
• Reform existing donor practices on technical
  assistance in capacity building
• Utilize national institutions for capacity
  development
• Supporting new regional processes on capacity
  enhancement
• Participate in monitoring processes established
  by African countries

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Performance Benchmarks for African Countries
(Selected)

• Political and Economic Governance
• Steady and measurable progress in implementing
  the APRM
• NEPAD post conflict construction framework is
  established and operative.
• Number of countries adopting the MTEFs
• Capacity Building
• Increased investment in the education sector and
  adequate remuneration for skilled personnel
• Strengthened capacity of the civil service and
  service delivery performance consistent with the
  MDGs

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Performance Benchmarks for OECD countries
(Selected)

• Political and Economic Governance
• Support for APRM programme of action and
  implementation of the ECA action plan
• OECD countries making effective and measurable
  contribution to transparency initiatives
• UN Convention on Corruption ratified by all OECD
  countries
• Capacity Building
• Number of multi-donor programmes supporting
  holistic capacity building efforts in African
  countries
• Effective support for regional capacity within
  APRM, NEPAD, AU, ECA and the RECS

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Conclusion Beyond Resources

• The attainment of these Action Frontiers will
  need enormous resource mobilization by African
  states and the development partners. It will
  require more than resources, such as sustained
  political will, a radical change in mind set and
  the willingness to be innovative and imaginative!

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• THANK YOU!
• Development Policy and Management Division (DPMD)