National Capacity Development Plans NCDP

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National Capacity Development Plans (NCDP)

• Juan Carlos Vilanova Pardo
• Debt Relief International
• Fourth Interregional SeminarAddis Ababa,
  Ethiopia08-10 May, 2006

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Mandate

• Phase 4 Document
• NCDPs aim to identify and prioritize the
  activities to be accomplished during this Phase
• Objectives Contributing to the Programme
  sustainability, and ensuring HIPC Programme
  ownership and consequently its response to the
  actual needs of HIPC countries

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HIPC ROs Cooperation

• The ROs are in a unique and matchless situation
  to assist HIPC countries in their NCDP design due
  to
• Their close relationship
• The use of existing documentation
• Documents of Institutional Missions, Workshops
• On the basis of such relationship and
  documentation a four-year NCDP should be designed

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Characteristics

• Details on government institutional support and
  technical training needs
• Government, agencies, units and individuals
• Ensuring its coordination with existing training
  programs or efforts on fiscal and debt issues and
  external aid
• Considering the need of co-funding activities

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NCDPs

• Proposed Methodology
• Presented as part of the Performance-based
  Management
• Also presented during the meeting of the CBP
  Steering Committee
• Presented herein to all HIPC countries
• Based on two types of CBP interventions
  Institutional Missions and National Workshops

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NCDPs

• Two matrixes were designed to be used in this
  type of CBP interventions.
• 1st Matrix. Institutional Mission Institutional
  Missions provide for opportunities to hold
  meetings with policymakers and officials from the
  various agencies and units. Therefore the matrix
  addresses the various issues that should be
  discussed in such meetings and the type of
  recommendations intended to be part of the Final
  Report.

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NCDPs

• This matrix addresses the four different levels
  on which the NCDP should focus (government,
  agencies, units, and individuals) and describes
  the following issues for each of them
• Major issues concerning capacity building and
  their linkage to performance indicators used in
  the HIPC CBP logframe.
• Strategy-related recommendations to achieve the
  intended capacity building results.
• Possible information sources for NCDP design.

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NCDPs

• 2nd Matrix. Meetings during National Workshops
  differ from those held during Institutional
  Missions.
• Group technical work is emphasized and
  consequently it is not possible to schedule an
  intensive meeting agenda with government
  officials.
• These meetings should be held simultaneously to
  the Workshop with the participation of senior
  officials. Therefore, the matrix for Workshops
  was designed as a questionnaire including a
  section where the relationship between the work
  of each technical group and the self-assessment
  questionnaire is defined.

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NCDPs

• The three following steps are recommended
• 1- To forward all documents required as part of
  the preparatory package.
• The RO should send all preliminary documents
  prior to the Workshop so as to give national
  authorities additional time for organization and
  information management.
• Upon their perception of the works scope the
  authorities will find it easier to schedule
  meetings with the relevant agencies and compile
  the necessary documents or legislative provisions
  that will serve as background information.

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NCDPs

• 2- To include one additional presentation during
  the first day of the Workshop.
• In National Workshops most part of the first day
  is currently devoted to presentations by national
  officials on the various issues that will be used
  as input by the technical groups. This proposal
  adds one presentation by government officials
  concerning capacity building issues. Thus,
  officials will be able to inform the participants
  on the existing capacity building program, its
  implementation progress, next planned steps, and
  any other issue to be included by the government.
  This presentation will be followed by a
  discussion between the participants and the
  officials involved.

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NCDPs

• 3- To include one additional day in the current
  Workshop agenda
• In order to account for the technical work that
  preparing the national debt and new financing
  strategy represents for the coordinator, the
  support group, and the participants in the
  Workshop, it is suggested that meetings of the
  Workshop coordinator, the experts, and the senior
  officials be held simultaneously to the Workshop.
  Therefore, the inclusion of one additional day in
  National Workshops is suggested in order to have
  time enough to develop all the tasks pertaining
  to NCDP design.

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Next steps

• Approval of matrixes as a guidance for NCDP
  design.
• Country indications on how they intend to design
  their NCDPs.
• What type of information is already available?
• What type of information is still missing?
• Timetable of NCDP design.
• Information on any other type of training
  programme being implemented.