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Democratic Republic of Congo

• Capacity Development from Ground Zero

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CD from Ground Zero

• DRC is one of the extreme cases
• Huge, poorly connected territory
• Collapse of state institutionstenuous hold from
  center
• Resource cursepoverty amidst mineral wealth (GDP
  per capita -300)
• Decentralization challenge
• from 11 to 26 provinces
• disconnect on transfer of resources from center
  to provinces
• Stronger leadership and clearer priorities at
  provincial level than at center

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Growing consensus on priorities

• Focus on six cross-cutting capacities
• Public finance management
• Budget management
• Procurement
• Modernization of state institutions
• Decentralization
• Anti-corruption
• The tricky part A multi-donor CD project
• 50 million from WB and AfDB and re-focusing 350
  million UNDP portfolio

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CD Skills Will

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Capacity development
Political will/ engaged society
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Skills, technical assistance, resources
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New comittments in the AAA

• More attention to demand-side
  institutionscivil society, parliaments, local
  research institutions, media and private sector
• Focus on country systems and statistical
  capacities (numerical targets for PBAs and CSs)
• More south-south approaches, working through
  local institutions
• Country (or joint) management of TA
• Mutual peer review and accountability approaches

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A new way of doing business

• Work at the local level first demand is strong
• Focus on the engagement process and building
  coalitionsrather than supply-driven trainingto
  ensure alignment with country-driven priorities
• Work with existing assets
• Local institutions and capacities (churches,
  local civil society organizations)
• Refit existing donor portfolios
• Use networking, South-South exchanges (GDLN) and
  links to Diaspora
• Leadership development at local and central levels

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Next steps

• Participatory governance diagnostics
• Carried out in three pilot provinces
• Aimed at engaging local communities on an agreed
  set of priorities (service delivery and
  management of public resources)
• CD assessment and mapping
• What are the existing assets?
• Focus on the how? and sustainability, drawing
  on new toolsSouth-South, twinning, GDLN and
  social networking tools