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Title: How to Prepare MDG based Plan or Strategy


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How to Prepare MDG based Plan or Strategy
Yuba Raj Khatiwada United Nations Development
Programme MDGI, Regional Centre in Colombo
Serving Asia and the Pacific
2
Contents
  • Developing MDG based Development Strategy
  • MDG Needs Assessment Approach to Planning
  • Methodology and Tools
  • Writing MDG NA based Plan
  • Macro Framework for MDG based Plan
  • Developing Financing Strategy
  • Linking MDG based Planning with MTEF
  • Key Policy Issues

3
Developing MDG based Development Strategy (1)
the Process
  • High-level political commitment
  • Nationally-owned
  • Integrated into on-going processes
  • Inclusive with participation from key actors
  • Transparent
  • Regularly reviewed

4
Developing MDG based Development Strategy (2)
Key Steps
Step 1 Launching the process with institutional
set up
Step 2 Adapt the MDG targets, Review Existing
Plans, Establish Baselines
Step 3 Undertaking MDG Needs Assessment and
Costing through 2015
Step 4 Developing Macroeconomic Framework,
Policies, and Financing Strategy
Step 5 Preparing MDG NA based Development
Strategy and drafting 3-5 year Plan to
Operationalize it.
5
Developing MDG based Development Strategy (3)
Institutional Set-up
  • A high level MDG based planning committee (headed
    by Finance/ Planning Minister) constituted to
    lead the process and oversee NA and planning
    exercise.
  • MDG NA Costing led by governments Task forces
    constituted by thematic areas - comprise of
    members from different concerning Ministries,
    public sector agencies and non government
    organizations.
  • Consultative process built in the formation of
    task force and NA work.

6
MDG Needs Assessment Approach to Planning (1)
  • Identify and assess..
  • Who and where are the poor, deprived, and
    excluded from development process? Identify the
    population in need Disaggregate the analysis.
  • What needs to be done? Focus on public
    investments (capital operating costs)
    Undertake Needs Assessment from now until 2015
    Cover goods, services, human resource,
    infrastructure Unlock capacity constraints
    through prioritization of interventions.
  • How much? Local unit costs of GS x population in
    need Human resources required to meet each
    benchmark Infrastructure needs.

7
MDG Needs Assessment Approach to Planning (2)
  • Include interventions that target the poor
    directly (e.g. school feeding programs, improved
    non-cash crops, subsidies for girls attending
    school)
  • Ensure pro-poor coverage rates(e.g. universal
    coverage of essential health services, particular
    focus on underserved regions)
  • Adapt financing strategy to the poor(e.g. end of
    school fees and health user fees, subsidized
    infrastructure services where necessary)
  • Identify policies and supporting institutional
    reforms
  • Link strategy with budgets / MTEFs

8
MDG Needs Assessment Approach to Planning (3)
  • Key Elements of MDG-based Planning
  • Ambition- national targets are at least as
    ambitious as MDG targets for 2015
  • Scope- the range of sectors identified is broad
    enough to achieve all the MDGs
  • Rigor -for each sector, the strategy is based on
    a detailed, bottom-up needs assessment
  • Timeline -the medium term plan/strategy is nested
    in a long term MDG framework
  • Financing -sources of financing are determined in
    line with ensuring access to MDG G S

9
MDG Needs Assessment Approach to Planning (4)
  • NA-based planning is typically a bottom-up
    approach..
  • Physical targets based on goals are at the root
  • Financial targets are derived through costing
  • Priorities are clearly defined-MDG vs. others and
    within MDGs themselves.
  • Overall macro constraints are derived with
    necessary actions and required resource inflow

10
Methodology and Tools (1)
  • Bottom up approach of identifying interventions,
    costing them, and linking to national development
    strategy done in a sequential manner
  • Targets are specifically set, unit costs are
    worked out and total cost for achieving the
    target estimated.
  • All types of inputs or resources like financial,
    human and infrastructure related ones are
    identified and costed.
  • MP Excel based tools applied to do NA and
    costing UNESCO Model for Education, Resource
    Need (now UNDP RCC) model adopted for costing
    HIV/AIDS

11
Methodology and Tools (2)
  • Two pronged approach followed for incorporating
    Gender, Environment, ICT, and CD under MDG NA
    (i) mainstreaming interventions in sectoral NA
    and costing and (ii) additional NA for the cross
    cutting, policy and institutions related areas.
  • The Excel based tools customized to capture
    country specific additional intervention needs.
  • Policies and institutions related interventions
    identified and costed as additional interventions
    ( if they have financial implications for
    implementation).

12
Methodology and Tools (3)
  • Key policy lapses and gaps to be identified in
    the bottom up approach of identifying
    interventions, costing them, and linking to
    national development strategy.
  • Existing policies, plans, strategies, and
    programs to be reviewed and credible ones
    incorporated into MDG NA.
  • Policies having implication for higher or lower
    public sector engagement -- like creating space
    for private sector in socio economic services --
    to be factored in the NA process.

13
Writing MDG NA based Plan
  • MDG NA is an input to the planning process, not a
    plan in itself requires complementary analysis
    of policy formulation, institutional structures,
    and ME to evolve a full fledged plan document.
  • Following a local and national consultative
    process for ensuring national ownership of the
    plan is essential.
  • Macro framework and financing strategies are to
    be anchored with the MDG NA to make the Plan as a
    common document for pledging resources and aid by
    the donors.

14
Macro Framework for MDG based Plan (1)
  • Macro framework essential to link the investments
    estimated through MDG NA costing to macro
    economic fundamentals.
  • Macro framework necessary to estimate the implied
    economic growth rate and its distribution to be
    achieved by investing in MDG related areas and
    then to estimate income poverty outcomes.
  • Macro framework also essential to develop
    comprehensive MDG financing strategy as it
    enables the projection of domestic resource
    mobilization for meeting MDG investment
    requirements.

15
Macro Framework for MDG based Plan (2)
  • Purpose of MDG-consistent macroeconomic
    framework
  • Estimate key economic variables (GDP growth,
    exchange rate, national saving, private sector
    investment, current account balance, etc.)
  • Project government revenues to map out MDG
    financing strategy
  • Support policy formulation
  • Monetary and fiscal stabilization
  • Pro-poor tax systems
  • Promotion of private sector investment
  • Check MDG needs assessment (Goal 1)

16
Developing Financing Strategy (1)
  • MDG Financing strategy should be developed by the
    Ministry of Planning/ Finance with inputs from
    the TTFs, particularly in household financing.
  • Macro framework along with the estimates of GDP
    and household income will provide input for
    domestic resource mobilization for financing MDGs
  • Fiscal space for domestic borrowing, higher
    revenue collection or rationalizing non MDG
    investments need to be explored.
  • The remaining financing gap has to be covered by
    ODA. Dialogue with major donors is needed to
    ensure higher aid commitment.

17
Developing Financing Strategy (2)
  • Sequence of Preparing an MDG Financing Strategy--
  • Estimate financing needs
  • Prepare MDG-consistent macro framework
  • Project government resource mobilization
  • Estimate household contributions
  • Identify MDG financing gap (debt relief
    development assistance)
  • Identify strategy for maintaining macro stability

18
Developing Financing Strategy (3) Elements of an
MDG financing strategy
Government MDG expenditures
MDG Financing Needs
Domestic resource mobilization
Household contributions
MDG Financing Gap (closed through ODA including
debt relief)
Debt service payments
19
Linking MDG based Planning with MTEF
  • Building MDG-consistent MTEF to link MDG
    interventions to specific allocations in the
    national budget include capital recurrent
    costs, link cost with output and outcome,
    protect key investments.
  • Prioritizing investments and proper estimation of
    investment based on Needs Assessment.
  • Setting up mechanism for periodic review of
    development outcomes-building system for ME.
  • Establishing public accountability
    mechanism-transparent fund, monitorable outputs,
    public audit.

20
Key Challenges and Issues
  • Integrating MDG NA into long term plans and
    strategies
  • Building capacity in the government to undertake
    intensive MDG NA and costing and to
    institutionalize it.
  • Incorporating Gender, Environment, ICT and
    Capacity Development interventions in all the
    relevant sectoral MDGs NA and Costing works.
  • Integrating existing sector strategy, plan and
    credible programs into the MDG NA based plan or
    strategy.
  • Ensuring MDG NA based planning, programming and
    budgeting as a dynamic process and making use of
    the work for annual programming and budgeting.
  • Developing synergy among all development partners
    to help the country to prepare MDG based long
    term plan or strategy with a bottom up approach.

21
Proposed Action Plan for Preparing MDG based Long
Term Development Strategy (1)
  • First Month Institutional Arrangements
  • Establish Political Level Steering Committee (led
    by of Planning / Finance Minister (functions
    issue action plan for the NA and costing work,
    establish MDG thematic/goal wise task forces for
    NA and costing, provide oversight for the works
    of the task forces, oversee the consolidation of
    task forces reports, lead the national
    consultation process, finalize the work)
  • Establish a core group at the MOF/ Planning to
    consolidate the works of the TTFs as critical
    input to the development strategy
  • Establish Thematic Task Forces (TTFs) to
    correspond with the goals set under MDGs
    /Investment Clusters identified in the Needs
    Assessment Methodology
  • Define roles of the government, UNCT and other
    development partners in supporting the MDG NA and
    costing for preparing the strategy.

22
Proposed Action Plan for Preparing MDG based Long
Term Development Strategy (2)
  • Second Month Training on MDG NA and Costing
  • Training on NA methodology for TTFs - each TTF to
    be trained (one day each) in the relevant NA
    module
  • Follow up support to the TTFs to their hands on
    the tools and guidelines to the TTFs on
    customizing excel sheets.
  • NA preparatory work
  • TTFs review vision documents, sectoral
    strategies, Master Plans, sectoral programmes,
    and action plans
  • TTFs review the NA and costing exercise of other
    similar countries which have done NA and costing
    for the work in which no sector specific tools
    are available.
  • Familiarize with the whole planning tools and
    process identification of the resources for
    input in NA work.

23
Proposed Action Plan for Preparing MDG based Long
Term Development Strategy (3)
  • Third-Fifth Months MDG NA and Costing Exercise
  • TTFs identify all cluster specific interventions
    necessary for achievement of the MDGs by 2015
  • TTFs carry out consultations with other
    government agencies, donors and non-governmental
    organizations while determining interventions
    setting coverage target.
  • TTFs undertake costing of sectoral interventions
    with the collection of baseline information,
    setting of coverage targets, unit cost
    estimation, target population in need and
    estimation of sectoral investment requirements
  • Preparation of draft reports of individual TTFs
    identifying specific interventions and associated
    sectoral investment needs.

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Proposed Action Plan for Preparing MDG based Long
Term Development Strategy (4)
  • Sixth-Seventh Month Consolidation of the draft
    TTF reports
  • Consolidation of sectoral investment needs for
    the long term development strategy/plan. This
    would include key strategic directions and
    provisional costing of sinterventions.
  • National workshop on the draft sectoral Needs
    Assessment and Costing report
  • Development of macro framework, financing
    strategy and macro as well as sectoral policies
  • Eighth-Ninth Month
  • First draft of long term development strategy
    ready for consultations with national
    stakeholders and donors.
  • National workshop on the draft of long term
    development strategy involving national
    stakeholders and donors.
  • Finalization of preliminary report on Needs
    Assessment and of Sectoral Investment Needs for
    the long term development plan.
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