MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF AID FOR TRADE: NEXT STEPS

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MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF AID FOR TRADE NEXT
STEPS
WTO Workshop on ME of Aid for Trade
19 July 2010 William Hynes
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Outline

• OECD/WTO Monitoring Framework
• Going to the country and regional level
• Outcomes and impacts
• The way forward

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Putting a spotlight on aid for trade
DEMAND
RESPONSE
OUTCOME
IMPACT

• Partner country assessment
• OECD/CRS

• trade-related indicators
• Case stories

• MDGs
• Case stories

• Donor assessment
• OECD/CRS

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Monitoring aid for trade flows
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CRS Aid for Trade Proxies
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Self assessments based on questionnaires

• What is your aid-for-trade strategy?
• How much aid for trade do you provide/recieve?
• How do you implement your aid-for-trade
  strategy?
• Do you participate in mutual accountability
  arrangements?
• Aid for Trade Fact sheets

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Case stories

• Next Global Review 2011
• Need to take monitoring to the local and regional
  level
• Profiling outcomes and impacts
• A large group of stakeholders
• Opportunity to share experiences on what is
  working (or not)

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Case stories

• Probe deeper into Aid-for-trade objectives,
  challenges and processes
• Used in conjunction with the self-assessments
• In-depth insights of concrete examples of
  successes and failures
• Concise but comprehensive story of a particular
  approach, process of activity

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Timelines

• July 2010 Call for case studies.
• August-September 2010 Development of
  self-assessment questionnaires
• October 2010 Questionnaires issued
• January 2011 Deadline for submission of case
  stories and questionnaires
• February 2011 On-line publication of case
  stories
• January-May 2011 Update of fact sheets and
  drafting of Aid for Trade at a Glance
• July 2011 Publication of Aid for Trade at a
  Glance.

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The way forward

• The monitoring framework is working
• The next monitoring exercise is a continuation of
  existing tools with the addition of case stories
• Successful monitoring depends on your input

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• For more information
• www.oecd.org/dac/aft