Promoting East

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• Promoting East East Cooperation through Sharing
  the Transitional Experience

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What is EDI?

• UNDP RBEC Regional initiative managed from RC in
  Bratislava
• Facilitates cooperation between EDs and both
  recipient countries and traditional donors
• Assists EDs in assuming their role as strategic
  partners in the global partnership for
  development (MDG 8)

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EDI when it started?

• Regional activities (study tours, workshops)
  since 1998
• National capacity development projects since 1999
• Regional EDI project document formulated in the
  fall of 2003 with seed funding 300,000 USD and
  structured output matrix, available at
  www.undp.sk under Other regional Activities and
  East-East Cooperation heading

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Who are the Emerging Donors?

• EDI has got close working contacts with most
  Central European and Baltic Countries and it is
  open to all NMS, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and
  Turkey
• These countries have made considerable success in
  their economic and democratic reform process and
  their transition experience is of utmost
  relevance for the recipient countries, especially
  in the RBEC region
• Demand for this expertise that is also linked to
  EU accession process has been constantly growing

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EDI Main Directions

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• Strengthening capacities in emerging donor
  countries to effectively deliver development
  assistance
• Promoting development cooperation between
  emerging donor countries and recipient countries,
  with a special focus on Southeast European and
  CIS countries
• enhancing the role of UNDP, and the UN system
  overall, as a major partner for and facilitator
  of East-East and East-South development
  cooperation.

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EDI capacity building for development
cooperation (DC) at the national level

• National projects in the Czech Republic,
  Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania
• Slovenia and possibly Poland to come soon
• Cost-shared by the governments in some countries
  first steps in ED resource mobilization
• Close cooperation between ED unit and CST
• Excellent tool for establishment of close working
  relationships with the partners, namely MFAs

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EDI Slovak TF

• 2,4 millions USD in 2003 (two thirds of the
  Slovak ODA)
• 3,0 millions USD amount in 2004
• Main delivery mechanism for the Slovak ODA and
  trilateral projects with CIDA-ODACE
• Administrative and Contracting Unit established
  in 2003 to perform the project cycle management
  functions
• Steering Committee with the majority of Slovak
  MFA representatives decides about funding
• Cooperation with regional program and COs in the
  second half of 2004

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EDI Czech TF

• 400,000 USD in 2004
• To be replenished for 2005 with the same amount
• Follow up of the previous TF
• New qualitative stage
• ODA is programmed and administered from
  Bratislava RC
• Complementary mechanism for the Czech ODA
• Thematic priorities good governance, health and
  HIV-AIDS, environment and sustainable
  development, education, socio-economic
  development and regional cooperation, rural
  development

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EDI Hungarian TF

• 1 million USD in 2004
• Hungarian MFA opted for an implementation
  modality through a nationally executed project
• UNDP s role is to assist in programming,
  monitoring and facilitating the process
• Close cooperation with COs in Bosnia and
  Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro and with
  the regional programme
• Thematic priorities good governance, policy
  coordination, sustainable development, SMEs,
  environment, gender and land mines /Ukraine/

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EDI Strengthened role of UNDP as a donor and
facilitator of East East cooperation

• Important role in several ED countries
• Partnership with CIDA, EC and some bilateral
  donors like Austria
• Respected partner at, and promoter of, the Donor
  Coordination meetings
• Potential for new partnerships might increase
  after May 2004 flexible modalities of ODA
  delivery and trilateral projects

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EDI next steps

• Increased coordination inside UNDP in regard to
  development cooperation in ED countries (new
  member states)
• Further resource mobilization and fine-tuning of
  ODA delivery mechanisms
• Increased role of UNDP in programming and
  management of the ED funds
• Trilateral projects and donor coordination

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EDI and MDG 8

• As bilateral donors, EDs are being assisted to
  become ODA partners so that they can effectively
  enter the MDG 8 global partnership for
  development and thus contribute to the
  achievement of all eight MDGs
• Linking financial resources, expertise from ED
  countries with UNDP MDGized programming clearly
  contributes to achieving MDGs
• To become true ODA partners, they are building up
  their own policy, financial, institutional
  frameworks including transparent and efficient
  ODA delivery mechanisms, including human
  resources for ODA management