Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Cairns Compact on Strengthening
Development Coordination in the Pacific
Tracking aid effectiveness and MDG’s
progress in the Pacific region
Feleti P Teo
Deputy Secretary General
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Compact Purpose & Deliverables
 Key Objective – drive more effective coordination of available
development resources centered on the aim of achieving MDGs
 Echoes principles of country ownership, alignment, harmonisation
and mutual accountability
 Key Deliverables address key principle of aid effectiveness:
 Peer review and self assessment of national development plans and
planning processes;
 Development partner reporting on efforts to support aid effectiveness;
 Tracking of Development effectiveness;
 MDG Tracking
 Roadmap to strengthening public financial management
 High level dialogue with the private sector
 Emerging body of evidence on regional development data.
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Tracking Aid Effectiveness in the Pacific & Progress
 Annual report on tracking overall development effectiveness in the region
 Synthesis of material coming out of three deliverable and processes under Cairns
Compact
 Peer review of national planning processes;
 Reporting by FICs on their national development plans
 Development partner reporting on their efforts in support of aid effectiveness
principles
 Contribute to body of evidence that generates a specific Pacific perspective on
national, regional and international efforts to improve development in the region
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Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress
 2010 MDG Tracking Report build on previous reports
 Localization of global indicators to suit local circumstances and priorities
 Creation of additional goals
 Progress towards MDGs is an incremental process and that measurement is not
always continuous
 On aggregate, little substantive change in status of achievement in progress
towards the Goals since latest Pacific MDG Tracking Report (2009)
 An holistic approach is thus taken in the assessment of progress towards the
achievement of the Goals in the 2010 Tracking MDGs Report
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Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress
 Data Issues
 Datasets presented represent the “best estimates” of MDG status of Pacific
Island Countries as at 2010; often actual data relates to earlier years
 Standard definitions and methodologies for some indicators are not
universally used across the region
 MDG Progress
 Overall trend is that
 Polynesian countries have been performing relatively well
 Micronesian countries of the north Pacific have been struggling to
maintain earlier gains
 Melanesian countries, notably those where there has been conflict or
civil/political tension, a reversal of earlier achievements is being noticed
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Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress
 Accelerating Progress
 Keys to accelerating progress two-fold
i. Sustain progress already made; enhance progress towards goals that
remain to be met
ii. Accelerate progress so as to meet at least some of the Goals
 Targeted “acceleration” interventions needed
 Interventions to be framed in the context of national development strategies
and sector plans
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Conclusion
 Mixed performance of MDG progress in the Pacific region
 Low levels of economic growth limit resources allocation for MDG
 Need for greater regional coordination of development resources
 Joint efforts between PICs, development partners and all stakeholders
 The Cairns Compact - regional platform for enhancing cooperation in
development coordination