Background Consensus

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• 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

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• Brief overview of Africa Regions 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

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• Sharing Experiences Senegal
• Applications and key achievements
• Challenges
• Key Lessons Learnt 

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• 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.

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HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting
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• 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

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HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting
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• 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 
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HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting
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• 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 

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HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting
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• 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
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HLF3 - Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting
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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