How do we all live up to the promises?

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How do we all live up to the promises?
Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid
Effectiveness
Janet EntwistleFilippo CavassiniThe World Bank
Third Roundtable on Managing for Development
Results Mutual Accountability and
PartnershipsBreakout Session 4 Monitoring the
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Hanoi,
February 7, 2007 1130 am to 130 pm
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Purpose of the session

• To provide an overview of current monitoring of
  the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness both
  globally through the Joint Venture on Monitoring
  the Paris Declaration and locally through
  emerging in-country frameworks
• To stimulate an open discussion on implications
  for the 2008 global monitoring round

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Overview of the session

• Overview of efforts by the Joint Venture on
  Monitoring the Paris Declaration Janet
  Entwistle
• Capacity building initiatives towards fulfilling
  the 56 partnership commitments Terry Jones
• Local efforts to monitor the Paris Declaration
  and strengthen country-level partnerships
• Introduction Filippo Cavassini
• Mozambique Pedro Couto
• Cambodia Heng Chou
• Looking towards Ghana Lead discussants Chris
  Hall, George Carner, Pham Thi Thanh An

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Overview of Paris Declaration monitoring

• The Paris Declaration
• Joint Venture on monitoring the Paris Declaration
• In-country frameworks for monitoring the Paris
  Declaration

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The Paris Declaration
Signed by over 100 partner and donor countries,
international organizations and civil society
organizations at the Paris High-Level Forum in
2005

• Holistic
• 56 partnership commitments to strengthen
  ownership, alignment, harmonization, results
• Monitorable
• 12 indicators to assess progress
• Mutually accountable
• Donors and partner countries jointly monitor
  progress through global and country-level efforts

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Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration

• OECD/DAC-coordinated Survey
• Tracking progress of 9 of the 12 progress
  indicators (quantitative assessment) that assess
  alignment, harmonization and mutual
  accountability
• Indicator 3 aid flows are aligned on national
  priorities
• Indicator 4 strengthen capacity by coordinated
  support
• Indicator 5 use of country systems
• Indicator 6 strengthen capacity by avoiding
  parallel implementation structures
• Indicator 7 aid is more predictable
• Indicator 8 aid is untied
• Indicator 9 use of common arrangements and
  procedures
• Indicator 10 encourage shared analysis
• Indicator 12 mutual accountability

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Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
(contd)

• World Bank Country Policy and Institutional
  Assessment ratings
• Tracking progress of indicator 2a (reliable
  country systems-public financial management)
• Joint Venture on Procurement
• Identifying criteria to assess indicator 2b
  (reliable country systems-procurement)

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Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
(contd)

• World Bank-coordinated Aid Effectiveness Review
• Tracking progress of indicators 1 (operational
  development strategies) and 11 (results-oriented
  frameworks) that assess ownership and results
• Building on 2005 CDF Progress Report setting the
  baseline and assessment criteria for Indicators 1
  and 11
• 61 countries with PRS/IPRS and 4 middle-income
  countries without PRS
• Individual aid effectiveness profiles organized
  around the 12 Paris Indicators
• Aid Effectiveness Review website
  (www.worldbank.org/aer)
• In-country consultations with government and
  development partners on profiles
• Information as of end-2006
• Qualitative directional assessment

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In-country frameworks for monitoring the Paris
Declaration
Based on preliminary results from the Aid
Effectiveness Review

• 10 countries have a framework for monitoring the
  Paris Declaration
• Country-tailored indicators to assess both
  government and development partner progress
• Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic,
  Lao, Moldova, Mozambique, Tanzania, Vietnam,
  Zambia
• 19 countries are developing an action plan
• 15 countries aim to develop similar frameworks
• 21 countries have not yet considered plans for
  country-tailored monitoring frameworks

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In-country frameworks for monitoring the Paris
Declaration (contd)

• Mozambique
• Performance Assessment Framework for government
  and budget support partners
• Independent PAP Performance Assessment Scoring
  rating partners and government in relation to the
  Paris Targets
• Cambodia
• Harmonization, Alignment and Results Action Plan
  2006-10
• Declaration between government and development
  partners on Enhancing Aid Effectiveness with
  joint monitoring indicators

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Looking toward the 2008 monitoring round

• How can the 2008 monitoring round build on
  emerging in-country monitoring frameworks?
• How can Paris Indicators 1 and 11closely related
  to country policy making processesbe integrated
  into emerging in-country monitoring frameworks?
• What are the capacity building implications?

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Looking toward the 2008 monitoring round

• How can the 2008 monitoring round build on
  emerging in-country monitoring frameworks?
• How can Paris Indicators 1 and 11closely related
  to country policy making processesbe integrated
  into emerging in-country monitoring frameworks?
• What are the capacity building implications?