Paris, 6-7 February 2012
Workshop on Lessons Learned from the
conduct of the Evaluation of the Paris
Declaration
PARTNER COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
Case: BOLIVIA
Jaime A. Garron Bozo
Chief, Financing Negotiations
Ministry of Development Planning - Bolivia
CONSENSUS BUILDING – DONOR COMMUNITY
2000
Millennium
Development
Goals
2001
2002
2003
Monterrey
Consensus
2004
Marrakesh
Roundtable
High Level
Forum in Rome
2005
2006
2007
1st PD Survey
Paris
Declaration
2008
2nd PD Survey
2009
2010
2nd PD
Evaluation
1st PD Evaluation
Regional Forum on
Alignment and
Harmonization for LA and
the Caribbean – Santa
Cruz
Accra Agenda
for Action
• In December 2006, the donor community in Bolivia established the
Develpment Partner´s Group (GRuS), in order to promote the principles of
ownership and alignment. (16 bilaterals, 6 multilaterlas + 1
intergovernmental).
• With in GRuS, it was created an ad hoc group in order to follow the Paris
Declaration Evaluation.
CONSENSUS BUILDING - GOVERNMENT
•
The international agenda in
development cooperation is full
of political commitments…
ODA in Iberoamerican Countries (2000-2009)
US$ Millions
• Multiple Fora + Multiple Actors =
Multiple Commitments
•
RELEVANCE of the Paris
Declaration:
Quantitative targets
Monitoring and evaluation.
•
To date, +130 partner countries
and development partners have
adhered to the Declaration
Developing Countries
Iberoamerican Countries
WHAT WORKED WELL:
EVALUATION STRUCTURE
• COMMITED DONOR FOCAL POINTS
• The Dutch Embassy and the Spanish Cooperation Agency for
Development acted as an excellent conduct to coordinate the work
undertaken with the donor community
• POLITICAL WILL AT THE NATIONAL COORDINATION
• Ministry of Development Planning
• EXPERIMENTED NATIONAL EVALUATION TEAMS
• INDEPENDENT FIRM: STRATEGY ADVISORS FOR GOVERNMENT
REFORM (SAX gr).
• INDEPENDENT FIRM: SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY ON TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE
WHAT WORKED WELL:
EVALUATION STRUCTURE
• NATIONAL REFERENCE GROUP
• MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
• MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• DUTCH EMBASSY – DONOR FOCAL POINT
• SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS: FEDERATION OF MUNICIPAL
ASSOCIATIONS
• CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES:
• 3 ROUNDS OF MEETINGS
• CONSORTIUM OF NGOs – UNITAS
• COMMUNITY BASED REPRESENTATIVE
• ACADEMIA: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF UNIVERSITES
• COMPRISING ALL MAJOR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
METHODOLOGY
PHASES OF THE EVALUATION
1
Preparation
2
Instruments Design
3
Field Work
4
Validation and data Gathering
5
Presentation
COVERAGE
• 13/20 Agencies participated
• 87 interviews to Civil Society, Government and
Donors representatives
• 13 forms filled by cooperation agencies
• 3 focal groups
• 2 Workshops
LEARNING PROCESS
Challenges
•
Time frame: late start of the evaluation.
•
Involving stakeholders to undertake a peer review (NRG) is very challenging, based on past
behavior. Should be done more often.
•
Involving emerging “Non-Paris” donors in the evaluation proved to be difficult, including
major South-South providers.
•
Difference in information recording (government and donors).
•
Lack of conceptual agreement and mutual understanding (i.e. technical cooperation).
•
Evaluation timing matched the budgetary process (difficulty to conduct in depth interviews)
•
Staff mobility (institutional memory)
•
Unrecorded information led to an exhaustive revision of aid agreements (tied aid,
preconditions, etc.)
•
Lack of substantive evidence in some cases, to make a stronger case.
INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXT
2000
2001
Millennium
Development
Goals
2002
2003
Monterrey
Consensus
2004
2005
Marrakesh
Roundtable
High Level
Forum in Rome
Paris
Declaration
Sánchez de
Lozada
Presidency
Political
Context
Public Policy and
Regulatory
Framework
2004
2005
Eduardo
Rodríguez
Presidency
NATIONAL
2009
2010
2nd PD
Evaluation
1st PD Evaluation
2006
Evo Morales
Presidency
Accra Agenda
for Action
2007 2008
Recall
Referendum
AAA
2009
2010
Constituent
Referendum
President
Morales
Re-election
Constituent
Assembly
Carlos Mesa
Presidency
National Dialogue
for a Productive
Bolivia
National
Dialogue Law
2235
PD
2008
2nd PD Survey
Regional Forum on
Alignment and
Harmonization for LA and
the Caribbean – Santa
Cruz
2000 2001 2002 2003
Bolivian Strategy
for Poverty
Reduction (EBRP)
2007
1st PD Survey
INTERNATIONAL
National
Dialogue
2006
Adjusted
EBRP
Bolivia s
Productivity
and Solidarity
Plan
National
Development
Plan
Constitutional
Reform Law
2650
Hydrocarbons
Law 3058
LOPE
Law
3351
Supreme Decree
27329 for Government
transparency and
information access
Supreme Decree
29322 for the
Nationalization of
Hydrocarbons
Law 031 for
Autonomy and
Decentralization
Framework
Supreme Decree
29308 for the
regulation of
external resources
Law 041 Against
Corruption and Illicit
Enrichment and
Investigation of
Wealth
LEARNING PROCESS
Opportunities
•
Independent evaluation.
•
Exchange of ideas and feedback from the Core Team and the possibility of accessing the
extranet of the Evaluation of the Declaration of Paris.
•
Having a Reference Group involving main stakeholders facilitated dialogue, although not as
frequent as expected
•
South-South cooperation with the Colombian evaluation team.
•
Political and operational support of the Government.
•
Openness to provide information on behalf of international cooperation.
•
Knowledge and expertise of the national evaluation team.
•
Provided valuable inputs for developing the Action Plan to Strengthening Development
Cooperation Effectiveness in Bolivia, presented in October 2011 to the Executive Branch, and
Donor Community.