1. www.mfa.at/adc Policy Coherence for Development

2. www.mfa.at/adc POLICY COHERENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT „…means working to ensure that the objectives and results of a government‘s development policies are not undermined by other policies of that same government which impact on developing countries, and that these other policies support development objectives where feasible.“ OECD

3. www.mfa.at/adc ADC – Ministry for Foreign Affairs Austrian Development Cooperation and Cooperation with Eastern Europe (ADC) in the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs Responsible for: overall-coordination of the Austrian public development cooperation formulation of development cooperation strategies and policies policy-dialogue in Austria and at international level Based on: Development Cooperation Act and 3 Year Programme Major goals: reducing global poverty safeguarding peace and human security preserving the environment Partner countries: in six key regions of Asia, Africa, Central America, SEE

4. www.mfa.at/adc ADC - ADA Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation non-profit limited liability company established in 2004 Responsible for implementing Austrian development cooperation strategies and programmes administration of budgets for ADC programmes policy dialogue in partner-countries

5. www.mfa.at/adc POLICY COHERENCE IN AUSTRIA Austria’s policy coherence for development is based on Federal Act on Development Cooperation (2002) as amended (2003) GAERC conclusions

6. www.mfa.at/adc FEDERAL ACT ON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION Section 22........... Any contribution that is provided by the Federal Government and reported to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that is part of Official Development Assistance shall be in line with the objectives and principles of development policy (Section 1, Subsections 3 and 4) and in accordance with the guidelines of the Three-Year Programme on Austria's Development Policy. The Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs shall ensure the coordination of international development policy both in Austria and with regard to Art. 180 EC Treaty.

7. www.mfa.at/adc Progress on PCD During the Austrian EU Presidency: r improvement of the decision making mechanisms of the Council, the Commission and the Member States: determination of priority actions in the field of policy coherence for development

8. www.mfa.at/adc Mechanisms put in place so far: Austria takes part in the informal PCD Network examination of government bills sustainable development joint working group with the Federal Ministry of Finance inter-ministerial consultations (e.g. Ministry of Economics and Labour)

9. www.mfa.at/adc Trade-related mechanisms intra-ministerial cooperation inter-ministerial Private Sector and Development Platform MOFA/ADC: represented in the export financing committee

10. www.mfa.at/adc Policy coordination at country level ADA: implementation of concrete projects and programs Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs: strategic policy guidelines MDG-based Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) programming frameworks of EC, multilateral institutions indicative programmes SWAPs

11. www.mfa.at/adc Factors to achieve greater PCD analytical capacity adequate identification and consultation of stakeholders cross institutional policy co-ordination mechanisms coherence friendly administrate culture effective negotiation skills OECD experience

12. www.mfa.at/adc Thank you.