CSOs%20AND%20AID%20EFFECTIVENESS%20WORKSHOP%20Ha%20Noi%20October%202nd,%202007

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CSOs AND AID EFFECTIVENESS WORKSHOP Ha Noi
October 2nd, 2007

• GROUP WORK REPORT

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GROUP 1

• Topic Role and models of CSO involvement in Aid
  Effectiveness

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Role and models of CSO involvement in AE

• Monitoring AE and ODA at commune level, fund from
  NGO/IOs. - CSO directly involve in monitoring,
  not state agencies
• Effective implementation community-based
  projects, highly participatory approach from
  design to implementation of projects, cost
  effectiveness, low administrative cost, benefits
  from the fund go directly to the people,
  transparency, and openness of information
• Advocate Unite among some CSO to advocate to get
  attention of and to influence governments
  policy, ? enabling environment for CSOs best
  practices
• Introcuction of gender issue into the development
  agenda to create equality in community development

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What to do to ensure the involvement of CSO in AE
for CSO

• Improved participation of CSO CSOs are allowed
  to participate and negotiate with donors on
  development programs, on development priorities
  that close to grassroots' needs
• CSO should be mutual and independent orgs
• CSO with monitoring role
• Network with other CSOs, self-capacity building
  to persuade and prove their expertise. VUSTA can
  play as the facilitator and connector of the
  network

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What to do to ensure the involvement of CSO in AE
for Government

• Finalize legal framework for the operation of
  CSOs (adjusted decree 88, Law on Associations)
• Empowerment CSOs have chance to access fund to
  implement, monitor and evaluate use of fund.
• CSOs involvement are clearly indicated in 5
  principles of PD and HCS
• Donor have a proportion of money for CSOs
  monitoring and evaluation
• Stipulate that CSO shall be represented in the
  ME delegation of all aid-funded
  projects/programs to guarantee transparency

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What to do to ensure the involvement of CSO in AE
for Government

• Simplification of fund receiving procedure (allow
  CSOs to receive direct aid in cash)
• Public of ODA information
• On Website
• Mass media (TV, newspaper)
• Official correspondence
• ..

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GROUP 2

• GovernmentCSO relationship in Viet Nam

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Focus

• About HCS (Ha Noi core statement)
• How does HCS linked to CSOs?
• How CSOs participate in HCS?

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1. About Vietnamese CSOs

• Vietnamese CSOs have experienced high development
  thanks to recent enabling legal framework
• However, discrimination among different
  types/levels of CSOs still exists
• Different perspectives of state agency and
  CSOs/associations on the same issue

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2. about ODA

• Could have bad effect discourage internal force,
  increase dependency, ? should not rely too much
  on ODA
• Might become the tool of influence of donor
  countries
• Like a cake, and unequally shared, even not all
  stakeholders are involved in the splitting up of
  this cake (CG meeting)

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3. About HCS

• 14 objectives are good but only in theory
• It takes much longer time to implement
• This is just the effort to localize the PD
• e.g. Commitment 3 consultation. Government
  should not be the project owner, especially the
  technical assistant project

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4. Recommendations to enhance AE

• CSOs should be allowed to involve in all steps
  consultation, implementation, monitoring,
  evaluations of ODA.
• Government policies in general and in ODA in
  particular should be consulted with CSOs,
  meanwhile CSOs also actively access ODA related
  legal documents to have timely consultation
• ODA projects should benefit the right
  beneficiary, implementation should be
  consistently deployed from central level to local
  level.
• CSOs should unite and coordinate with each other
  for better efficiency (from project to program
  approach)

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4. Recommendations to enhance AE (cont)

• Higher professionalize, less bureaucratic
  procedures among CSOs
• There should be an information center to provide
  CSOs related and reliable source of information.
• Capacity building for CSOs, especially in
  independent monitoring and evaluation
• Enabling legal framework for CSOs
• Frequent dialogue between government and CSOs

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GROUP 3

• INGO/ Donor-CSO relationship in Viet Nam

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1.Donor/INGOs CSOs relationship

• Ideal partnership relationship
• Subcontractor (employee) Investor (of money,
  technology) relationship

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2. Recommendations of CSOs to Donors/INGOs

• Better CSOs participation in big development
  projects
• CSOs are allowed to directly implement and
  monitor projects
• Classification of types of fund, give CSOs the
  fund amount appropriate with their capacity. When
  they are not capable of take in huge projects
• Better assistance from government, donor/INGO to
  help enhance capacity of CSOs, be ready to take
  in responsibilities when donors/INGOs withdraw
• This is the expansion of Ha Noi Core statement
  Government/INGOs create legal framework for CSOs.
• Currently 30 of aid comes from state budget, the
  rest 70 are from CSOs program/projects

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3. What CSOs should do in the future to better
access to funds of donors/INGOs

• Capacity building for CSOs at all levels
• Networking to make it strong enough in terms of
  financial and human resources to be able to take
  in big projects and receive fund directly from
  donors/INGO.
• Positive competition among CSOs by
• Upward and downward influence
• Information sharing among CSOs and with other
  stakeholders such as government, donors and INGOs