Christian Lotz

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Aid Effectiveness in Conflict and Fragile
Situations

• Christian Lotz
• UNDP/BCPR

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Progress since 2005

• Paris Declaration aid effectiveness principles
  apply equally to conflict and fragile situations,
  but must be adapted to weak ownership or capacity
• Donors established 10 principles in OECD/DAC
• Accra recognize DAC principles and decide on
  joint steps to implement and monitor, new
  interest from fragile states themselves

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Key issues

• Paris Declaration indicators with emphasis on
  quantitative targets are less relevant in fragile
  situations
• Planning, coordination and implementation
  modalities depend on the specific context
• UNDAF, JAS, PRSPs, budget support, SWAPs, country
  systems are often not relevant
• But the UNCT is often more important
• Need for comprehensive or whole-of-government
  approaches to address links between development,
  security, political and humanitarian engagement
• Not business as usual!

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Accra Outcome objectives

• Need for realistic peace- and statebuilding
  objectives that address the root causes as
  prerequisites for development
• Informed by international dialogue between
  partners and donors
• Dialogue is being chaired by DRC and France with
  support from DAC
• Preparatory meeting in December with 11 fragile
  states participating
• First meeting in Bangui in October?
• What role for the UN?

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Accra Capacity development

• Need for demand-driven, tailored and co-ordinated
  capacity-development support for core state
  functions and for early and sustained recovery
• Agencies will work with developing countries to
  design interim measures
• Strategic use of direct implementation and
  substitution?
• South-South?
• UNCT role in capacity development, but do we have
  the right tools?

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Accra Financing

• Donors to provide flexible, rapid and long-term
  funding modalities, on a pooled basis where
  appropriate, to bridge humanitarian, recovery and
  longer-term development phases
• Work underway in OECD/DAC to map donor policies
  and procedures and available instruments
• What is the gap and how do we close it?

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Accra Monitoring of the DAC Principles

• Joint monitoring process at the country level on
  a voluntary basis
• Share results as part of progress reports on
  implementing the Paris Declaration
• Six countries volunteered until now DRC, CAR,
  Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Timor Leste, Haiti
• Opportunity to avoid rigid and unproductive focus
  on quantitative success criteria?
• UN role in monitoring process?

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Objectives
Statebuilding
Peace building
MDGs
Instruments
Results
Development
DDR
Country strategy
Political
Elections
Humanitarian
Service delivery
Security
Etc.
Harmonisation and Alignment
Context analysis
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Questions for UNDG

• Does the UN have a special role in providing
  leadership when governments are weak? Role of the
  RC? Aid management?
• Can we provide a basis for alignment and
  harmonization with capacity assessments, PCNAs
  and MDTFs?
• Can we build on integration as a UN advantage?
• Does strong local presence and ability to
  implement small projects enable the UNCT to
  implement better and sometimes more quickly, and
  build capacity in situations of weak capacity or
  ownership?