CSOs AND AID EFFECTIVENESS process and debate

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CSOs AND AID EFFECTIVENESSprocess and debate

• Antonio Tujan Jr.
• IBON International

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Is aid reducing poverty and achieving development?

• Development strategies and program effectiveness
• Human rights based and empowered development
• Aid management and delivery
• Paris Declaration five principles
• Key gaps and weaknesses

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Two parallel processes

• Accra High Level Forum III take stock of Paris
  Declaration implementation - AAA
• CSO parallel process
• Monitoring implementation, OECD survey
• Advocacy on key issues and proposals to deepen
  aid effectiveness agenda
• Advocacy to enrich the Paris Declaration and
  implementation such as governance and
  accountability processes

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Accra HLF3 Taking Stock

• HLF III format of marketplace, roundtables and
  Ministerial meeting on Sept 3-5
• Preparations
• Second monitoring survey
• Joint Evaluation
• Regional workshops
• HLM March 08
• Accra Action Agenda

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CSO parallel process

• National seminars, researches
• Regional and international conferences and
  meetings
• Publications and www.betteraid.org
• Lists aideffectiveness_at_realityofaid.org
• International steering group
• Engagement with WP EFF and Ghana HLF III SC
• Ghana CSO Aid Effectiveness Forum
• Parallel Forum in Ghana
• Participation in HLFIII

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DAC policy on CSOs

• Shift in DAC policy of engagement
• Challenges to the aid system by new players
• Bringing CSOs into the tent, but also looking
  into CSOs accountability and aid effectiveness
• CIDA initiative on Advisory Group on CSOs and Aid
  Effectiveness

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CSO and aid effectiveness

• Advisory Group of WP EFF on CSO and aid
  effectiveness
• To look into the two overarching functions of
  civil society as development actors in the broad
  sense, and more specifically in terms of its role
  in promoting accountability and demand for
  results.

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Advisory Group mandate

• To facilitate a multi-stakeholder process that
  aims to clarify
• The roles of civil society in relation to the
  Paris Declaration
• CSO aspirations to deepen the widen national and
  international aid effectiveness agendas
• Key considerations and principles that will be
  internationally recognized by all of the relevant
  parties.

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Advisory Group mandate

• To advise WP-EFF and the HLF Steering Committee
  on the inclusion of Aid Effectiveness and Civil
  Society as well as other issues to deepen the aid
  effectiveness agenda in the agenda of the Accra
  Forum, in a manner that builds on the Paris
  Declaration and prepare proposals on Aid
  Effectiveness and Civil Society for discussion as
  part of the Accra agenda.

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AG expected outcomes

• Better understanding and recognition of the
  roles of civil society organizations (CSOs) as
  development actors and as part of the
  international aid architecture, and engagement of
  CSOs in general discussions of aid effectiveness
  (recognition and voice).
• Improved understanding of the applicability
  and limitations of the Paris Declaration for
  addressing issues of aid effectiveness of
  importance to CSOs, including how CSOs can better
  contribute to aid effectiveness (applying and
  enriching the international aid effectiveness
  agenda).
• Improved understanding of good practice
  relating to civil society and aid effectiveness
  by CSOs themselves, by donors and developing
  country governments (lessons of good practice).

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AG process

• Composition of AG
• National and regional consultations
• North CSO and North-South CSO consultation
• International Forum (Feb 2008 Ottawa)
• Engagement with SC and official workshops
• Roundtable in Accra

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Role of CSOs in society

• Role and responsibility of csos
• The role of civil society as a pillar of good
  governance
• Its role in providing effective delivery of
  development programs and operations
• Its role in the social empowerment of particular
  groups and the realization of human rights.
  Social justice and social transformation

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Who are CSOs?

• all non-market and non-state organizations and
  structures in which people organize to pursue
  shared objectives and ideals
• Social solidarity as fundamental character of
  CSOs whether defined in various parameters,
  dimensions, concerns or divisions
• Obvious in sectoral, thematic, issue-oriented,
  development csos
• Addresses desired values of social
  responsibility, humanitarianism, volunteerism
• Different dimensions of social solidarity
• International solidarity for development and HR

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Role of CSOs as development actors

• As donors and as channels of assistance or
  solidarity for poor focus on HR and poverty
  reduction, development effectiveness
• Simplistic dichotomy between work as development
  actors as donors, as channels of assistance and
  as watchdogs for anticorruption and
  accountability
• Integrated role of CSOs as development actors
  solidarity for the poor in generating resources,
  ensuring pro-poor and rights based services
  delivery, promoting pro-poor and human rights
  policies and development programs and strategies

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CSO policy

• Solidarity as defining framework of CSOs implies
  rethinking of CSO policy in relation to diversity
  and representation, legitimacy and
  appropriateness, accountability, coherence and
  coordination, internationalization and
  globalization,

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Recognition and Voice

• Bringing csos into the tent
• How ready are donors for NCSOs, for SCSOs, for
  International level
• How ready are governments
• How ready are CSOs themselves

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Distinct development roles

• CSOs premised on social solidarity solidarity
  with the poor in its various activities as
  development actors
• other actors (NCSOs, governments and donors
  relate to CSOs conscious of this solidarity)
• Governments role in development premised on
  governance (and services as component of
  governance) to population
• (Donors, CSOs relate to government conscious of
  its role and responsibility in governance)

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Applicability of Paris Declaration

• Two dimensions of applicability not simplistic
  application on csos, distinguishing between cso
  notion as donor and as watchdog
• Two dimensions of applicability as a
  comprehensive development partner and
  interlocutor with donors and governments and
  among csos and with the poor as development
  actors

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Applicability of PD to CSOs

• Indirect applicability to enrich the PD
  commitments and targets of donors and governments
• Local ownership, alignment and partnership
• Donor coordination and harmonization, and
  program-based approaches
• Managing for results
• Mutual accountability

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Applicability of PD to CSOs

• Direct applicability on CSO relationships must
  first be premised on social solidarity and in its
  role in society
• Harmonization vs diversity
• Ownership and Alignment not on governance of
  sovereign but on work for HR of poor and national
  development process for the poor
• Accountability and solidarity