Practitioners’ Workshop on
Busan Partnership and
Agenda for Change,
March 20, 2012, Brussels
Feedback from the technical
seminar on Aid Effectiveness
with EU+ Member States
Overview of themes discussed during
technical seminar of March 13+14, 2012
• Session 1: Busan follow-up at the global level:
• - Aid effectiveness governance structure – global partnership for
effective development cooperation
• - Monitoring after Busan
• Session 2: Busan Building Blocks: PN
• - overview of EU MS/COM involvement
• Session 3: Joint Programming: PN
• - programming guidelines for next MFF / synchronisation
• Session 4: Transparency: PN
• - TR-Aid
• - EU Transparency Guarantee – Busan commitments on
transparency
• Session 5: Fast Track Initiative on division of labour:
• - Ideas for future work
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Overview of themes tackled:
3 general comments
 (1) Informal brainstorming => no formal
conclusions/quotations, no Common position on
new ideas, no formal agreements
 (2) Discussions mainly at policy level…
 (3) « Early » phase: COM/EU has not the replies
yet on all implementation issues…
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Practitioners’ Workshop on
Busan Partnership and
Agenda for Change,
March 20 2012:
BUSAN & BUILDING BLOCKS
Thematic priorities listed in the Busan
Common Position
Inclusive, globally light and country focused
EU contribution to the PBIG process:
Ownership
Results and accountability
Transparency and predictability
Reduced fragmentation and countries receiving insufficient
assistance
 Alignment and use of country systems
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•- private sector;
•- inclusive partnerships operationalised at the country level
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8 Building Blocks : one way to implement
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Voluntary initiatives to implement Busan commitments
Focus on country level implementation
Varying degree of activity and participation
No formal accountability mechanism
Building Blocks:
Conflict & fragility/New Deal:
South-south cooperation:
Private sector :
Climate finance:
Transparency:
Effective institutions & policies:
Results & accountability:
Managing diversity & reducing fragmentation:
Gender action plan
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PN Workshop on Busan
Partnership and
Agenda for Change,
March 20 2012:
JOINT PROGRAMMING
Joint Programming – context
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Longstanding undertaking, failed implementation of 2007 Council
Conclusions (Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour)
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New Momentum: Council Conclusions for Busan (EU deliverable), Agenda
for Change
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Aid effectiveness purpose:
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Reduced fragmentation through division of labour
Increased transparency and predictability
EU donors as part of problem and solution
Strengthened EU external action purpose: joint undertaking COM-EEAS
Final product: single joint programming document, hopefully replacing at
least partly individual programming documents
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Joint Programming – Main features
• Scope
• Joint analysis/response to partner countries’ national plans
• In-country division of labour for all sectors of intervention (not
cross-country division of labour)
• Indicative financial allocation per sector and donor
• Not bilateral implementation plans
Change of approach
• Focus work at partner country level: “Brussels light” approach
• Synchronisation of the EU with partner countries’ cycles:
ownership by partner country government
• Flexibility: no “one size fits all”
• Open to committed non-EU donors, but EU as a driving force
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Joint Programming – Next steps
• Letter from HR/VP Ashton, Commissioners
Piebalgs and Füle:
• HoMs reports received early March from the potential 11
partner countries
• About 6 countries expected to conduct joint
programming in 2012
• Next steps: to be decided on the basis of the
2012 experience
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PN Workshop on Busan
Partnership and
Agenda for Change,
March 20 2012:
Transparency
Transparency: Introduction
Aid transparency after Busan:
 Transparency to the frontline: a shared principle &
timebound commitments
Joint Programming & EU Transparency Guarantee = 2 key
deliverables for EU and MS in the Busan Forum.
(EU Transparency Guarantee: EU MS will publicly disclose all
information on aid programmes so that it can be more easily
accessed, shared and published)
 EU commitments from (1) Busan, (2) EU Transparency
Guarantee and (3) Operational Framework
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Transparency: commitments
- agreeing (by end 2012) and implementing (by
2015) a common, open standard for
electronic publication of timely,
comprehensive and forward-looking
information on resources provided through
development cooperation, and
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providing (by 2013) available, regular, timely
rolling three-to five-year indicative forward
expenditure and/or implementation plans to all
developing countries.
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Transparency: a global standard
• - no global standard yet; diverging views
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• - a possibility: current International Aid Transparency
Initiative (IATI) as a basis
Discussion on implementation of
transparency commitments:
 EU Transparency Guarantee and Busan commitments
 Status of implementation in the Member States, prospects and
support needs and state of play & role of the TR AID tool.
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Transparency: TR-AID tool
Transparent Aid (TR AID) tool to combine and visualise EU aid
and humanitarian aid data from different sources. COM is further
developing the tool in cooperation with EU MS with a view for a
launch and publication in the latter part of 2012.
Operational Framework: “The EU and its Member States will
further explore the possibility of using Transparent Aid (TR AID)
to ensure that information can be easily accessed, shared and,
eventually, published.”
“…first phase, starting in 2011 with a view to the HLF4 in Busan...”
“…an assessment of experience in the first phase, by the end of
2012, the EU and its Member States will decide whether to move to
a full-fledged EU-wide roll-out of TR AID.”
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PN Workshop on Busan
Partnership and
Agenda for Change,
March 20, 2012:
Questions…?