Monitoring Agriculture Richard Moberly Food Group DFID

Monitoring DFID Agriculture Spending Input sector codes What is agriculture? –AFSI –Portfolio Review –New IT systems Need broad definition –What is the question….?

DFID Spending (2) Problems Bilateral –Other Sectors Budget support Private Sector Financial Sector –Multiple Objectives –Portfolio Review Multilateral –Sectoral Attribution –Time lags –Double counting Projections – a more interesting question?

Other Donors –Different budgetary systems –What numbers? Disbursement/Allocations/Commitments/Pledges Grants/loans –What sectors? OECD DAC Other Investors –National Governments National Systems; CAADP MFA etc –Private Sector –Others

AFSI Problems –Commitments – programmes or spending? –Additionality – DFID example –Comprehensiveness – Spanish example –Beyond finance Policy; Effectiveness; Outcomes; Time scale What has been agree? –Commitment table and tracking –Additional comprehensive tracking –Country spending information from donors Work at the appropriate level –CAADP MAF –Country level Role of CFS?

Principles Transparency and accountability –Make sure information is widely and easily available – Hold each other to account Broad range of inputs Look more closely at outcomes, including nutrition Keep it simple –Make use of existing information and systems –Keep it cheap

Global Donor Platform Platform Knowledge Piece: Agriculture and Policy Coherence Changes in donor financial patterns to ARD over last 15 years, what gets counted in (from productive safety nets to rural infrastructure) and how has this changed analysis of –2-3 bilateral donors, –a multilateral donor and –2-3 country level case studies of donor finance. Best practice methodologies to track donor financing Assess whether this provides the basis analysis at country level and whether this has facilitated better medium term financial planning at country level. review the extent of the available information as a basis for development of a mutually accountability framework