Harmonisation and Alignment in Fragile States

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Harmonisation and Alignment in Fragile
States

• Paul IsenmanOECD/DAC
• paul.isenman_at_oecd.org

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• Achieving Health MDGs
• The Relevance of Fragile States
• Estimated 1/7 of the developing world population.
  However
  
• 1/3 of those living on less than 1/day
• 1/2 of children dying before 5
• 1/3 of maternal deaths
• 1/3 of those without drinking water
• 1/3 of people with HIV/AIDS
• Impact of fragile states on neighbours, and, more
  widely, health
  

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• Defining Fragile States lack of political
  commitment and insufficient capacity to develop
  and implement pro-poor policies. Many fragile
  states are also prone to some combination of
  violent conflict and to lack of effective control
  of some parts of their territory high levels of
  corruption and human rights violations and
  political repression.
• First approximation for analysis bottom two
  quintiles of the World Bank country performance
  index (CPIA) plus other fragile states not rated
  in 2003 Afghanistan, Liberia, Myanmar, Somalia,
  and Timor-Leste

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What are DAC Donors Doing to Improve Aid
Effectiveness?
Support for MDGs and Multi-dimensional Poverty
Reduction(including GPGs)
Data, Indicators, and Statistical Capacity
Policy Coherence For Development
Peer Reviews
Harmonisation and Alignment behind Country-led
Programmes

Untying and Partner Country Procurement
Improving Aid Effectiveness
Harmonisation and alignment in fragile states
Improved aid allocations
Good practice in key Sectors and Cross-cutting
Issues
Good practice in key Sectors and Cross-cutting
Issues
Evaluation and Managing for Development Results
Increased Aid Predictability
Capacity Development
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1. Ownership (Partner countries)

• HA
• Model For
• Aid
• Effective-
• ness in
• Achieving
• MDGs and
• other
• development
• results.

National Governmental
Use ofcountrysystems
Alignmenton partners priorities
2. Alignment (Donor-Partner)
3. Harmonisation (Donor-Donor)
Rationalise procedures
Information sharing
Common arrangements
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Whats Different in Fragile States?
Lack of commitment and capacity.
1. Ownership (Partner countries)
National Governmental
Donor lack of confidence.
2. Alignment (Donor-Partner)
Use ofcountrysystems
Alignmenton partners priorities
3. Harmonisation (Donor-Donor)
Patchy donor co-ordination.
Common arrangements
Rationalise procedures
Information sharing
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Emerging Lessons in Fragile States
Diplomacy, policy coherence and capacity developm
ent.

1. Ownership (Partner countries)
National Governmental
Align differently transitional results
frameworks partial policy or shadow systems
alignment

Use ofcountrysystems
Alignmenton partners priorities
2. Alignment (Donor-Partner)
Co-ordination. Joint analysis, programmes, and
procedures.
3. Harmonisation (Donor-Donor)
Common arrangements
Rationalise procedures
Information sharing
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• COUNTRY CLUSTERS OF FRAGILE STATES
• Strong government ownership and leadership
  harmonise and align
  
• Weak government ownership and leadership
  Harmonise and align differently.
  
• Most difficult cases Harmonise and shadow align.
  
  

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• Carrying forward work on Aid Effectiveness in
  Difficult Partnerships
  
• LAP Priorities
• Harmonisation and Alignment
• Aid Allocations Cost of Neglect
• Policy coherence
• Workshops on Country Cases
• Emerging Priority Service Delivery
• Next steps Senior Level Forum on Development
  Effectiveness in Fragile States, London, January,
  2005 High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness,
  Paris, March 2005

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION. NOW ON
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  TO INCREASE THE IQ OF ECONOMISTS.

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• BOTTOM TWO QUINTILES, CPIA (2003)
• 4th Quintile Cambodia, Chad, DRC, Republic of
  Congo, Cote DIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, The
  Gambia, Guinea, Kiribati, Niger, Sierra Leone,
  Tajikistan, Tonga, Vanuatu
• 5th Quintile Angola, Burundi, Central African
  Republic, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Lao PRD,
  Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe,
  Solomon Islands, Sudan, Togo, Uzbekistan,
  Zimbabwe