The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development Date Presenter April 15th, 2011 Ray Offenheiser

Effective governments Aid is not development. Active citizens Effective governments In early 2005, many donors committed in the Paris Declaration to “Respect partner country leadership and help strengthen their capacity to exercise it.” Why did they do this? Beyond the right for peoples to self-determine, country ownership makes for effective aid. We don’t “do” development; people develop themselves. Development happens when: Active citizens enter formal economy, generate wealth, and pay taxes Effective governments use revenues to provide public goods & services to enable sustainable & equitable growth

But aid can strengthen or weaken the development relationship. Active citizens Effective governments Aid can break this link: Citizens care less about what the state is doing with aid, because it is not their money When the state gets aid, it cares less about what citizens think because it doesn’t need their taxes

Effective governments The end goal we’re all after… Active citizens Effective governments   Government responding to the needs of its citizens Active civil society holding its government accountable Donors need to support citizen groups, think tanks, and independent media who are monitoring their government’s budget and holding those governments accountable for their promises.

The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development Date Presenter April 15th, 2011 Ray Offenheiser

Brenda Killen Aid Effectiveness Division DCD-OECD 15 April, 2011 ROAD TO BUSAN Brenda Killen Aid Effectiveness Division DCD-OECD 15 April, 2011

Preparing the path: The WP-EFF 24 Countries receiving ODA 8 Countries both receiving and providing assistance 31 Donor countries 9 Multilateral organisations 6 CSOs, foundations, local governments, parliaments Quick reference on what it is the WP-EFF (looking at the questions, they probably don’t know very much NOT donors – broad-based group. Hosted by DAC, but donors have their own space (DAC) – this is an open forum. Recognises that agreements on aid effectiveness need to be built on broad ownership. Reps from developing countries come from finance ministries – “communities of practice” – people who deal with aid every day and understand why aid effectiveness matters.

? The Road to Busan WP-EFF WP-EFF July October April July October MONITORING AND EVALUATION ANALYZE EVIDENCE HLF-4 WP-EFF July WP-EFF October WORK-STREAMS AND STUDIES ? CONSULTATIONS A quick way to sumarize the process. However, is important to highlight that this process began after Accra. Road to Busan – 2 more plenary meetings plus parallel (and independent) processes drawing on evidence and political debate within and outside WP-EFF. POLITICAL DEBATE April July October December

What do we expect from Bussan? Stocktaking from the Paris / Accra process Agreeing on features of high quality aid and its monitoring framework towards 2015 Situating aid in its broader development context: More actors, development finance effectiveness Diversified approach: MICs, LICs, FS, regions Catalyst dimension: trade, security, climate… Results and right-based approaches

But experience shows that development should not ignore citizens…

Positive signals for Busan… Increasing consensus on: Inclusive ownership for development; Enabling environment for development actors; Multiple Accountabilities; underlined by Transparency Inclusive ownership: Dialogue and broad participation is essential for development process. Accra clearly established that , to be effective aid implies considering in an participative way all development actors. Initial steps has been made to include it in PD survey, and certainly this dimension should be one of the elements to be monitored after Busan. And supporting development actors, which includes CSO, should always have to be considered as a way to be aligned with development Enabling environment for development actors Unfortunately PD has been used as an excuse to limit space for CSO activities AAA highlight the importance of enabling environment and this is key for real development Accountability That includes the obligation of governments to be accountable to their citizens and that includes also accountability on use of aid flows. Donors have to improve the way they support accountability (reference to GOVNET studies) Transparency This include in country transparency and transparency on aid flows.

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The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development Date Presenter April 15th, 2011 Ray Offenheiser