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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. ? 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

9. 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

10. But experience shows that development should not ignore citizens…

11. 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.

12. WWW.BUSANHLF4.ORG Thank you

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