Preparations for HLF3: The Road to Accra

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• Preparations for HLF-3 The Road to Accra
• Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
• 2-3 April 2008
• Paris

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Content

• Update on HLF-3 structure and process
• Accra 2008 Preparation of RTs Accra Agenda for
  Action
• Roadmap to Accra

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What is Accra HLF 3 ?

• High Level political event on aid, a few months
  before Financing for Development in Doha
• Mid-term Stock-taking of the Paris Declaration
  mutual commitments
• Forward looking event road to 2011.
• 100 partner countries, most donors, most
  international aid agencies,
• 800 to 1000 participants
• Strong civil society engagement ( parallel
  event)

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2008 Monitoring Survey (2007 data)

• Launched early January 2008.
• To monitor the Paris Declaration in 56 self-
  selected countries
• Deadline 31 March 2008
• First draft report July 2008
• Final report (some country report) for the HLF-3

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2008 Survey 56 Countries, including18 fragile
states
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Structure of the HLF
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What is the Accra Agenda for Action?

• Not a new Paris Declaration
• Help achieving targets agreed in 2005
• Respond to potential emerging issues
• Small set of high impact actions
• Politically appealing

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List of Roundtables

• RT 1 Country ownership
• RT 2 Alignment country syst, predictability
• RT 3 Harmonisation- complementarity
• RT 4 Results impacts
• RT 5 Mutual accountability
• RT 6 Civil society aid effectiveness
• RT 7 Situations of fragility conflicts
• RT 8 Sector applications (health, education,
  infrastructure)
• RT 9 Aid architecture

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Core Issues (Partner Countries) for the RTs and
the AAA

• Untying
• Conditionality
• Predictability
• Division of Labour
• Incentives
• Capacity Development
• cross cutting issues human rights,
  environment, gender

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Roundtable co-chairs
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Content

• Update on HLF-3 structure and process
• Accra 2008 Preparation of RTs Accra Agenda for
  Action
• Roadmap to Accra

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Roundtables Key Dates

• March 3 HLF3 Steering Committee discusses draft
  Terms of Reference of each RT
• March 12-13 cross cutting issues workshop
  (Dublin1) and meeting of RT co-chairs, London
• March 15 RT co-chairs submit full ToR and
  first outline of RTs to be discussed and agreed
  at next WP-EFF (2-3 April)
• May 15-16 Capacity Building workshop to include
  representatives from all RTs, Bonn
• April-May consensus building, regional
  preparatory events

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The preparation process (1)

• WP-EFF 2 plenary meetings before Accra, to
  pilot preparation work
• 2-3 April 2008
• 9-10 July 2008
• HLF-3 Steering Committee frequent meetings to
  advise on the organisation and content of the
  forum
• Consultations with CSOs AG-CS regional, national
  and international meetings (3-6 Feb, Ottawa)

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The preparation process (2) Regional
Preparatory Events
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The preparation process (3)

• DAC meetings and HLM
• Ghanas partner country preparation initiative
  (KY Amoako)
• Use of regional and international events
• UN Regional Economic Commission meetings (eg UN
  ECA, Addis, March 31st)
• Washington Spring meetings, 12-13 April
• Regional Development Banks annual assemblies
  e.g. AfDB Maputo, 14-15 May

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The preparation process (4)

• UN - Strong links with SGs Africa Initiative,
  MDG summit, DCF and Doha FfD Preparations.
• UNSGs Africa initiative OECD and IMF work on
  predictability a core issue for Accra
• UNSGs report (mid-May) - focus on aid quality.
• UN ECOSOC-BWI meeting New York (15/16 April) -
  item on aid architecture and aid effectiveness
• DCF DAC chair to attend DCF (30 Jun/1 Jul) to
  discuss draft Accra Agenda for Action.
• FfD outcome document (end July) to be informed by
  Accra Agenda for Action
• DCF, UN MDG Summit (25 Sept), Doha (Dec) to
  reinforce HLF-3 messages

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The preparation process (5)

• Various work streams and processes
• Global Learning group, health as a tracer
  sector,
• International aid architecture
• Task Team on complementarity/DoL
• Fragile States CPDC
• Capacity Development
• Non-DAC providers of development assistance
• various SPA working groups
• more ..

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Accra Agenda for Action preparation timeline

• 3 milestones in developing the AAA
• First Consultative Draft was prepared by 18 March
  and will be discussed in a range of international
  for a
• Revised Draft of the AAA will be prepared by 12
  June, reflecting the comments on the first draft.
• Final Draft, reflecting the comments made by the
  Working Party on the revised draft, will be
  released by 20 July for endorsement at the HLF-3.

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Content

• Update on HLF-3 structure and process
• Accra 2008 Preparation of RTs Accra Agenda for
  Action
• Roadmap to Accra

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