EDD2013 Thematic Programme on Financing Beyond ODA
This year's edition of the European Development Days (26-27 November 2013) is approaching. Under the broader theme Towards a New Partnership for Development, the below panel discussions, project presentations and workshops on financing beyond ODA should be part of the programme.
Financing Beyond ODA. An Original Approach on the Place of ODA in the Post-2015 Debate
Financing the Fight. How Can we Fly Across the Finish Line of the Current MDGs?
Progress at Risk: Government Spending on MDG. Turning Numbers into Nurses
Financing Beyond ODA. How Can Development Assistance Serve as a Catalyst for Resource Mobilisation?
If you have any suggestions or questions related to the activities proposed, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the focal points whose contact details are provided below. You are equally welcome to post on this group's blog to launch discussions or share your thoughts on these topics, and to share your knowledge on similar projects with the help of the projects functionality. Don't forget to tag your content with the EDD2013 thematic category.
For the final programme and practical details, please consult the EDD2013 website closer to the date.
Effective development cooperation – How we work together to reach development goals. Contribution of the Busan Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation to the post-2015 agenda
Roundtable
The 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness took place in Busan in December 2011. It followed-up and took forward the aid effectiveness work of earlier fora in Roma, Paris and Accra. One of the key issues of the Forum was to engage with emerging economies and private sector to strengthen global development partnership.
The Busan Forum agreed to set up a new inclusive global governance structure, the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. The Busan Forum and its outcome document mark a conceptual shift from aid effectiveness to aid and development effectiveness.
This implies a clearer emphasis on results, strengthening aid's role as a catalyst as well as going beyond the traditional aid effectiveness issues to cover issues like climate change finance, private sector and south-south cooperation. Importantly, Busan outcome and the Global Partnership focus particularly on country-level implementation of the commitments.
The first Global Partnership progress report will be published in the autumn 2013 to inform the ministerial-level meeting. In addition to assessing progress on the ground, the Steering Committee has identified four themes for ministerial-level meeting consideration: domestic resource mobilisation, role of the private sector, knowledge sharing and inclusive development. Links between Busan and the post-2015 global agenda are to be discussed and messages to the post-2015 process formulated with the central idea being that Busan can provide the ‘how’ to the ‘what’ of the post-2015 goals.
Organised by European Commission, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation – EuropeAid, United Kingdom (timo.wilkki@ec.europe.eu, ellen.kelly@ec.europe.eu )
Financing Beyond ODA. An Original Approach on the Place of ODA in the Post-2015 Debate
Roundtable
The last two decades have seen a large transformation in the development finance, in terms of flows – stability of ODA but strong growth of remittances and Foreign Direct Investment – and in terms of actors and instruments both in donors and recipient countries (emerging donors, private foundations, NGO, local authorities, multilateral agencies and trust funds).
Non-ODA flows has become much more important than ODA. In the same time, development finance faces now too main goals: reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development and global public goods.
In this new context of growing complexity of financing for development, does the ODA reporting system still appropriate? How could it be adapted to new reality and to the increasing demand of accountability and transparency? What should be the specific role for ODA in the new architecture? ODA has to be renewed, in relation to the other source of development finance and on what it should be used for in the post-2015 perspective.
Organised by Agence Française de Développement (damicoo@afd.fr)
Financing the Fight. How Can we Fly Across the Finish Line of the Current MDGs?
Report Presentation
While the international community is debating what the post-2015 agenda should look like, there is a fear that the world’s attention may shift from the urgent task currently at hand.
There is real jeopardy that the great progress made against extreme poverty so far may be slowed, or even reversed. European aid levels are on the decrease, in particular to sub-Saharan Africa. This trend continues despite EU commitments to collectively give half of all aid increases to Africa, and despite the fact that the region is home to the majority of those poor countries still lagging behind in their progress towards the MDGs.
This lab will look at the findings of ONE’s DATA report 2013. Aside from an analysis of aid levels, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, it also provides an updated assessment of country-level progress on the MDGs and of financing trends for health, education and agriculture. In these last two years until the 2015 deadline, how can we sprint towards our collective goals?
Organised by ONE ( tamira.gunzburg@one.org )
Progress at Risk: Government Spending on MDG. Turning Numbers into Nurses
Project Presentation
This project is the first ever to track what donors and developing countries are spending on the MDGs, the project has found rapid progress being made in certain countries. However, majority of countries are spending much less than they have promised, or is needed, to meet the MDGs or potential post-2015 goals. Falls in aid, low execution rates, and low recurrent spending all threaten to reverse existing progress.
This project is of the view that countries need to make more data on MDG spending accessible to their citizens; to strengthen policies for revenue mobilization, debt and aid management; and to spend more on agriculture, WASH and social protection.
Organised by Development Finance International, Oxfam International ( aadam@oxfam.org.uk, natalia.alonso@oxfaminternational.org, mhm402002@yahoo.co.uk )
Financing Beyond ODA. How Can Development Assistance Serve as a Catalyst for Resource Mobilisation?
Panel
In a world of profound change for 15 years, development is facing a number of challenges including a redistribution of responsibilities between traditional and new actors. In light of these, the international community must imagine a coherent and effective collective response that is fuelled by adequate financing solutions, both innovative and traditional.
In order for public policy to provide satisfying solutions, it must reinvent itself and make better use of its resources in support of all the factors contributing to the development.
The current redefinition of the development agenda, with sustainability as the foundation, can only be implemented thanks to a sustainable financing system and a new approach. This implies an overall reflection on the funding beyond aid, in agreement with the discussions initiated in all international and European forums.
Organised by BRAC, CONCORD, Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International – FERDI, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs – France, Japan International Cooperation Agency – JICA (matthieu.boussichas@ferdi.fr, elena.arnal@diplomatie.gouv.fr)