EXPERIENCING DONOR COORDINATION: lessons learned from AFD, UNCDF, EC

1. EXPERIENCING DONOR COORDINATION: lessonslearnedfrom AFD, UNCDF, EC Participants: Renée Chao-Beroff, Managing director, PAMIGA Ivana Damjanov, MicroLead Programme Specialist, UNCDF Michael Knaute, Managing director, Oxus Development Network Emmanuel Moyart, Coordinator, ACP/EU MICROFINANCE Philippe Serres, Chargé d’affaires senior, AFD Moderator: Antonique Koning, Microfinance Specialist, Donor and investor team, CGAP European Microfinance Week 2012 – November 16th, 2012

2. EXPERIENCING DONOR COORDINATION • A chance to implement larger and more more inovative projects • Donor funds are a chance for Knowledge and experience sharing • Strong need in donor money to push the boundaries • Try to organise multi-donor funds and facilities • Beneficiaries must keep the leadership of the project • Strong local presence and local governmemt support helps ensuring coordination • Donors must have sknowledge of the market • Donors should push for increased transparency • Donors should agree on a common reporting platform and core indicators • Donors should push private – public partnerships, although the “timings” are very different • Donors have different selection processes which makes it difficult to coordinate prior to the grant awards • Are the funding opportunities visible enough? Initiatives such as MFW4A • Can donors organise speed-dating for good projects that did not get funding?