Background Consensus Managing for Development Results fosters evidence-based decision-making

1. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Background Consensus • Managing for Development Results • fosters evidence-based decision-making • a strategy that applies to the management of all development resources in a country, with the management of aid being a part of it. • focuses on the pursuit of development objectives • needs to be seen as a country system

2. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Brief overview of Africa Region’s Performance • Progress has been made, albeit slowly, in developing MfDR systems in • Africa. Improvement has been registered with 71% of 31 African countries • surveyed having taken action towards achieving good practice or better; • compared to 54% three years earlier. • Performance Assessment Frameworks • MfDR Community of Practice • Leadership and Accountability • Planning and Budgeting • Statistics • Civil Society Organizations • Cross- cutting Issues • Major continental Initiatives : Little results from NEPAD

3. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Sharing Experiences … Senegal • Applications and key achievements • Challenges • Key Lessons Learnt

4. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Key Issues Emerging from Discussions • The importance that performance assessment frameworks include gender equality and human rights perspectives • The importance of considering institutional strengthening as a critical parameter. • The need to have indicators that allow the measurement of actual impacts on individuals and their living standards • The need to overcome the lack of links between existing national MfDR systems • On NEPAD: There are gaps between national systems and pan-African systems and monitoring progress is therefore • particularly difficult.

5. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Key Issues Emerging from Discussions • The issue of human solidarity is very important and should be further addressed in MfDR • The need to improve countries’ capacity to link the annual reviews of development strategies and programs to budgets. • Better MfDR systems and capacity will not only increase aid effectiveness, it will also facilitate a scaling-up of total aid • There is a lack of a mechanisms that look on impacts in our systems • The need for more participatory approaches in MfDR

6. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Suggestions on issues to be brought forward towards Accra • On country capacity: • Donors should commit more to strengthen local capacities to conduct evaluations and monitoring and they should play more a catalyst role in our development process • Donors and partners should jointly increase the use of local resources as a means to strengthen local capacity • Donors should harmonize their support to the development of MfDR in partner countries

7. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Suggestions on issues to be brought forward towards Accra • On systems: • System improvement issues should be linked to capacity issues. In this context, one must encourage the improvement of existing systems • Systems that we are using today were mostly set by donors, the actual need is to start using those systems in smarter and creative ways, not keep assessing the present situation • Donors should help us identify the gaps in systems and help us fill those gaps. This would also constitute a firm commitment to use the systems once the major gaps have been filled 

8. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results • Suggestions on issues to be brought forward towards Accra • On assessing country capacity in MfDR: • There must be mechanisms in place to include specific issues such as gender and parliament in assessing capacity • More attention and efforts should be devoted to statistical capacity

9. HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting – Kigali Round Table 4 – Managing for Development Results Suggestions on issues to be brought forward towards Accra On cross cutting issues: Three gender related indicators, developed by UNIFEM should be considered for inclusion into the performance assessment frameworks