Antonio Tujan Jr.
IBON International
Betteraid
Are results important? Results
agenda for aid effectiveness
 Why results fundamental to aid quality reform
 Reciprocal relationship between results framework/agenda
and aid effectiveness principles – Ownership;
Accountability; Managing for results
 For development partners – assuming and managing risks
for genuine results agenda
 Components of results agenda
 United around country targets and strategies in programming
and planning
 Efficient management for low cost delivery
 Incorporating mechanisms to ensure results in inclusive
program management
 Monitoring and evaluation to demonstrate clear outputs and
outcomes
Dangers of donor-driven “results agenda”
- Are we being distracted from
development?
 Donor “Value for money” – an investor framework averse to






risk?
Excessive focus on quantifiable short term development
outcomes captures the development objective and process
M & E transformed into fetish for measuring outcome
indicators
Disregard of the development process and local actors
Disregard of unquantifiable or difficult complex processes
such as capacity development - (“not everything that can be
measured is important and not everything important can be
measured” – Albert Einstein)
Diminution of human rights approach in development
The PBF – the big push forward a response from IDS against
the narrowing of what is valued and how value is measured
What results, how to get results
 Development - Quality of life, opportunities for human
potential
 Broad country ownership the start to determining:
What
results are meaningful to country needs and strategies for
development?
 Aid effectiveness –
 What processes to negotiate national development strategies and
results for aid assisted programs
 What mechanisms to incorporate rights-based approaches (such as
empowerment, consultation and participatory components) in aid
assisted programs and projects
 What affirmative mechanisms to ensure participation and benefit
fo women and other marginalized sectors
 What mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation for affirmative
and inclusive participation, coverage and effective attribution for
development results in monitoring and evaluation?
Development effectiveness – results
focus for people’s development
 Development effectiveness deepens and strengthens
effectiveness and results agenda to people’s
development – how development cooperation
empowers the people especially the excluded to claim
their rights and strengthens governance mechanisms
to uphold and defend people’s rights
 Development cooperation mechanisms that are based
on human rights agenda to ensure development results
- empowerment, affirmative approaches, capacity
development
 Development trajectories premised on people’s
economic participation, welfare and benefit
 Difficulties and benefits
Monitoring and Evaluation
 M&E as inclusive country owned process
 Philippines national platform on M & E
 Factors for LDCs
 capacity of state and institutions for leadership
 Champions among donors
 Readiness to engage inclusively
 Capacity of civil society and parliament for sustained
constructive participation M & E process