Delivering results from development cooperation Getting and demonstrating results - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Delivering results from development cooperationGetting and demonstrating results

Antonio Tujan Jr.

IBON International

Betteraid

• Why results fundamental to aid quality reform
• Reciprocal relationship between results framework/agenda and aid effectiveness principles – Ownership; Accountability; Managing for results
• For development partners – assuming and managing risks for genuine results agenda
• Components of results agenda
• United around country targets and strategies in programming and planning
• Efficient management for low cost delivery
• Incorporating mechanisms to ensure results in inclusive program management
• Monitoring and evaluation to demonstrate clear outputs and outcomes

• Donor “Value for money” – an investor framework averse to risk?
• Excessive focus on quantifiable short term development outcomes captures the development objective and process
• M & E transformed into fetish for measuring outcome indicators
• Disregard of the development process and local actors
• Disregard of unquantifiable or difficult complex processes such as capacity development - (“not everything that can be measured is important and not everything important can be measured” – Albert Einstein)
• Diminution of human rights approach in development
• The PBF – the big push forward a response from IDS against the narrowing of what is valued and how value is measured

• Development - Quality of life, opportunities for human potential
• Broad country ownership the start to determining: What results are meaningful to country needs and strategies for development?
• Aid effectiveness –
• What processes to negotiate national development strategies and results for aid assisted programs
• What mechanisms to incorporate rights-based approaches (such as empowerment, consultation and participatory components) in aid assisted programs and projects
• What affirmative mechanisms to ensure participation and benefit fo women and other marginalized sectors
• What mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation for affirmative and inclusive participation, coverage and effective attribution for development results in monitoring and evaluation?

• Development effectiveness deepens and strengthens effectiveness and results agenda to people’s development – how development cooperation empowers the people especially the excluded to claim their rights and strengthens governance mechanisms to uphold and defend people’s rights
• Development cooperation mechanisms that are based on human rights agenda to ensure development results - empowerment, affirmative approaches, capacity development
• Development trajectories premised on people’s economic participation, welfare and benefit
• Difficulties and benefits

• M&E as inclusive country owned process
• Philippines national platform on M & E
• Factors for LDCs
• capacity of state and institutions for leadership
• Champions among donors
• Readiness to engage inclusively
• Capacity of civil society and parliament for sustained constructive participation M & E process