Donor coordination and
effectiveness of aid to agriculture
Effectiveness in Aid to Agriculture
Czech action to strengthen food security
Glopolis / FoRS Seminar, Prague, 18 February 2009
Christoph Langenkamp, task leader agricultural and rural policy
Secretariat of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
www.donorplatform.org
[email protected]
Global Donor Platform for Rural
Development
• A network of 30 donors, international finance
institutions and development agencies, formed in 2003;
• Common vision that agricultural and rural development
(ARD) plays important role in poverty reduction;
• Members are committed to achieve increased and
more effective aid for ARD, centred on smallholder
agriculture;
• Proposed Platform outputs:
 Coherent and evidence-based advocacy in support of
increased and more effective aid in ARD;
 Enhanced capacity of member agencies to deliver more
effective support for ARD (knowledge management)
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Context
• When addressing aid: development is the
prerogative of sovereign nations;
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Context
• When addressing aid: development is the
prerogative of sovereign nations;
• Aid allocation in ARD declined;
International ODA to agriculture, forestry, fishing 1983 - 2007 (constant prices 2006)
25000
35%
30%
20000
15000
20%
ODA
% total ODA
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15%
10%
5000
5%
0
0%
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million US$
25%
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Context
• When addressing aid: development is the
prerogative of sovereign nations;
• Aid allocation in ARD declined;
• Aid fragmentation increased;
Average number of donors per recipient county,
region and decade
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Latin America and
Caribbean
Middle East and North
Africa
other Asia and
Oceania
South and Sentral Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
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19701979
19801989
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20002006
2006
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Context
• When addressing aid: development is the
prerogative of sovereign nations;
• Aid allocation in ARD declined;
• Aid fragmentation increased;
• Aid architecture and modalities are increasingly
complex
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Paris Partnership Commitments
• Developing countries exercise leadership over their
development policies and plans (ownership);
• Donors base their support on countries’ development
strategies and systems (alignment);
• Donors co-ordinate their activities and minimise the cost of
delivering aid (harmonisation);
• Developing countries and donors orient their activities to
achieve the desired results (managing for results);
• Donors and developing countries are accountable to each
other for progress in managing aid better and in achieving
development results (mutual accountability);
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Sectoral issues of the Paris
Declaration
The agricultural sector:
• is private sector led with limited role of the state;
• includes a wide range of stakeholders (civil society,
rural organisations, private sector);
• is cross-Ministerial and institutionally complex;
• the challenges and needs are heterogeneous and
are country/region-specific.
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Agricultural sector experiences
implementing Paris Declaration
• Ownership: Joint Assistance Strategies (JAS) existing but
weak capacity and involvement of rural stakeholders. Lack of
integration of national policy with sector and local strategies.
• Alignment: Currently with government policies and systems
but new approaches and models may require working outside
government.
• Harmonisation: PBAs and SWAps existing but still too many
approaches and no real incentives; at times too complex.
• Mutual Accountability: SWAps, MoUs and Financing
Agreements existing but broader stakeholder involvement
and clearer norms required.
• Managing for Results: Concepts (outcomes, results and
indicators) and processes (M&E systems, capacity assessment
and stakeholders) still rather weak & undefined.
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Key points of the Accra Agenda
for Action (AAA)
Organised along three major challenges: Ownership,
partnerships and results
• Concrete steps on predictability, transparency, use
of country systems, untying, division of labour.
• Progress on fragile states, conditionality.
• Significant change in the nature of the relationship
between donors and partners – accountability and
trust.
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Key issues for effective ARD
policies & strategies
• Strengthened and more inclusive ownership (farmers
& farmers’ organisations, rural CSOs, private sector)
of policies/strategies & implementation/monitoring;
- Capacity development for all stakeholders;
- Coherent and “good enough” policies and strategies at
national, sectoral and decentralised levels;
- South-south learning networks, communities of practice.
• Development of cost-effective results management
and improvement of methodology and progress
indicators in results-monitoring for ARD.
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Donor issues for effective aid
in ARD
In addition:
• Alignment and increased use of country systems,
incl. support to regional mechanisms (e.g. CAADP);
• Realistic PBAs (see Platform study, EC guide);
• Strengthen partnerships (global, regional, national);
• Finalise Joint Principles for donors;
• Division of labour;
• Support incentives for aid effectiveness for ARD;
• Regard “Right to Food”, WDR 2008, OECD, IAASTD…
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Thank you
And please visit:
www.donorplatform.org
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Key points of the AAA
(cont.)
• Ownership, country-level policy dialogue on
development (§13)
• Capacity development (§14)
• Country systems (§15)
• Reducing aid fragmentation (§17)
• Recognition of role of all development partners
(§19)
• Civil society (§20)
• Managing for results and incentives (§23)
• Accountability for results (§24 & 26b)
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