Regional Seminar on "Results and Mutual Accountability" - How to implement Busan commitments

This seminar aims at promoting the « results and mutual accountability » agenda among Africa's Francophone countries. 

The workshop is targeted at partner country officers and senior government officials with responsibilities in national poverty reduction/development strategy and its monitoring and evaluation, sector wide programs, public finance management, national statistics, aid management, and Paris Declaration Evaluation country coordinators.

11 countries have been invited to participate: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.

The sharing of experiences and practices on country results and mutual accountability frameworks and processes focused on identifying paths leading towards progress in the implementation of Busan commitments with regards to results and mutual accountability.

The scheduled discussions should provide the opportunity to identify concrete actions for further progress in each country

AGENDA 

Wednesday, November 21th

8:30                       Registration

9:00-9:20              Opening

9:20-10:00           Seminar Overview          

                                Block A:Presentations and Discussions on Results and Mutual Accountability

10:20-12:05         Introduction on The Global Partnership: from Paris to Busan, what progress?

12:05-12:30         Overview of Group Work: setup and internal workings 

Theme 1: Reflections on Country Experiences – Producing Development Results

13:30-14:30       Presentation of country example: Positive experience from country 1

                             Presentation of country example: Positive experience from country 2

                             Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 3

                             Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 4   

14:30-15:45         Group work: multi-country groups are organized around issues deemed the most important amongst   questions that came up during the plenary sessions for a more focused discussion and reporting back to plenary.  

16:00-17:10         Plenary Presentation of Group Work Conclusions

17:10-17:40         Country Teams Debrief on the Day's Work

Thursday, November 22th

Theme 2: Reflections on Country Experiences – Measure, Monitor and Evaluate Results

8:40-9:00             Reflections on day 1: lessons and open questions

9:00-10:00           Presentation of country example: Positive experience from country 5

                               Presentation of country example: Positive experience from country 6

                               Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 7

                              Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 8                      

10:20-11:35         Group work: multi-country groups are organized around issues deemed the most important amongst questions that came up during the plenary sessions for a more focused discussion and reporting back to plenary.

11:35-12:10         Plenary Presentation of Group Work Conclusions

12:10–12:40        Country Teams Debrief on the Session's Work

Theme 3: Reflections on Country Experiences –Mutual Accountability Processes

13:30-14:30         Presentation of country example: Positive experience from country 9

                               Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 10

                               Presentation of country example: Negative experience from country 11 

14:30-15:45         Group work: multi-country groups are organized around issues deemed the most important amongst questions that came up during the plenary sessions for a more focused discussion and reporting back to plenary.

16:00-17:10         Plenary Presentation of Group Conclusions

17:10-17:40         Country Teams Debrief on the session's work

Friday, November 23th

Reflections on Country Experiences – Bringing It All Together at Country Level

8:00-8:45             Reflections on day 2: lessons and open questions

8:45-10:00           Country Delegations Group Work

10:20-12:30         Plenary Presentation of Country Delegations Group Work Conclusions

13:30-14:30         Seminar Conclusions and Way Forward

14:30–15:30        Seminar Closing Ceremon