EU Expert Group on Results: 1st Meeting

EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Directorate-General EuropeAid

EU Expert Group on Results, 1st Meeting

Wednesday, 16th November 2011

Venue: Hotel Bloom, Rue Royale 250, 1210 Brussels

AGENDA

9.00-9.30 Registration/Welcome coffee

9.30-9.45 Opening session

 Welcome by Franco Conzato, Head of Sector, DEVCO Unit B1 – Quality of

delivery systems

 Introduction – Klaus Rudischhauser, Director DEVCO B – Quality and Impact

9.45-10.30 "Results Reporting By Donor Agencies" DAC Report

 Presentation from Adrian Maitre, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Head

Quality Assurance and Aid Effectiveness Section and Dr Daniel Low-Beer, Director,

Performance, Impact and Effectiveness, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis

and Malaria.

 Discussion

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.30 EU Member States' experience of results

 Peter Ellehøj, Deputy Head of Department Quality Assurance, Development

Cooperation, DANIDA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

 Rob Swinkels, Results measurement and Statistics Aid Quality Division, DEC,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

 Alan Harding, Economics Adviser, EU Results & Delivery Team and Kosovo,

Europe Department. Department for International Development (DFID), UK

 Discussion

12.30-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.15 Results and Accountability

 Country Results Frameworks - presentation by Alexandra Silfverstolpe Tolstoy, Special Advisor to the Department for Management and Methods in Development Cooperation, Swedish Foreign Ministry

 Discussion

15.15-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-17.15 The way forward

15.30-16.15 Participants will split in 4 working groups on two main subjects: Country Results Framework and EU Common Framework for Results. Each working group will be moderated by a rapporteur.

16.00-17.15 Presentation by each rapporteur of main points of working group discussion following by plenary discussion.

17.15-17.30 Closing session

 Summary and follow-up – Jan ten Bloemendal, Head of Unit, DEVCO B1, Quality of delivery systems