WORKSHOP ON THE PARIS
DECLARATION
IMPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION
Sponsored by the African Development Bank, the World
Bank,
and the United Nations Development Program,
in
collaboration with the OECD-DAC and its Members
Hosted by the Government of Uganda
Entebbe, Uganda
November 16-17, 2005
A G E N D A – DAY 1
| Wednesday, November 16 |
| 8:00 – 09:00 |
Registration (List
of Participants) |
| 9:00 – 9:30 |
Opening Session:
Welcoming Remarks:
Philibert
Afrika (ADB)
Judy
O’Connor (World Bank)
Lamin
Manneh (UNDP)
Partner Countries Representative
Joyce Mapunjo
(Tanzania)
Opening Address
Prof.
Mondo Kagonyera, Minister,
Office of the Prime Minister
(Uganda) |
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Presentation of Program --
Negatu Makonnen (ADB
) |
| 9:30 – 12:00 |
Plenary I: Harmonization, Alignment and Results Agenda
Implications and Implementation
Chair: Martin Odwedo
(Uganda) |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Harmonization & Alignment-Moving towards
Implementation
Global issues
Chris
Hall (The World Bank)
OECD-DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
Christian
Lehembre (OECD-DAC)
Country Issues
David
Ndopu (Zambia) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Managing for Results - Implementation
Translating
Principles into Practice
Doug
Barnett (ADB)
Partner Country perspective
Kelvin
Banda (Malawi)
General Discussion |
| 13:15 – 18:00 |
Plenary II: Making Paris Declaration Commitments
Operational at the Country Level |
| 13:15 – 15:30 |
Supporting PRS Design & Implementation – How can we do
better guided by Paris Declaration
Chair: Talaat Abdel
Malek, (Egypt )
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Country Ownership and Leadership in Harmonization,
Alignment, and MfR.
Chair: Fisseha Aberra ( Ethiopia)
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| 16:00 – 18:00 |
Plenary II (cont.): Mutual Accountability –The role of
results reporting
Chair: Birgitte Markussen ( DANIDA,
Kampala) |
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Chair’s opening remarks includes “reporting for whom?”
External versus Domestic Accountability
Lessons from the sector to national PRS on results
reporting Vololoniaiana Randriamampianina (Madagascar) &
Lisa Gaylord (USAID, Madagascar) |
| 18:30 – 20:00 |
Cocktail Reception
· Short Remarks by Mr. Peter
Ssentongo, (Uganda) on Managing for Results Source Book
·
Cultural Performance |
A G E N D A – DAY 2
| Thursday, November 17 |
| 9:00 – 9:15 |
Key Points from Day 1
Philibert Afrika
(ADB) & Gerard Byam (World Bank) |
| 9:15–10:30 |
Plenary III: Practitioner’s Panel on Common Arrangements
Underlying SWAPs and Budget Support Modalities -- Recent
Experiences and Key Country and Donor Level Challenges |
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The purpose of this panel of practitioners will be to
forge a common understanding of key alignment and
harmonization elements involved in using Swaps and budget
support approaches in supporting poverty reduction strategies.
To share learning that will have operational relevance, the
panel could focus on particular modalities e.g.: joint
analytical work, an MOU for budget support, country led
coordinated capacity building support, coordinated assistance
strategies, what it takes to agree on a performance assessment
framework, common financial reporting/disbursement
arrangements under a Swap, etc The chair of the panel could
provide a short introduction to these approaches and the role
they play in the harmonization and alignment agenda. |
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Chair
and Keynote Speaker: Mr. Kasekende, Deputy Governor Central
Bank of Uganda
Panellists: Messrs Paul Lupunga
(Zambia)
Judy O’Connor, World Bank)
Wendy Ayres (HAC,
Kenya) |
| 10:45 – 12:45 |
Group Discussions: |
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Five discussion groups are suggested. The groups, each led
by a team leader and supported by a rapporteur will think
through the practical steps, operational procedures and
implications, and arrive at recommendations on the key issues,
and next steps: |
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Supporting
Country Implementation Process – What information sharing,
dissemination and facilitation efforts would be most useful to
provide necessary operational guidance and initiate/accelerate
action at the country level? |
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Harmonization,
Alignment Results Issues in Supporting PRS Implementation
–What does it take to align financial support with national
budget cycle, agree on common performance assessment
framework, develop joint or coordinated country assistance
strategies, develop program based approaches such as Swaps,
and agree on MOUs/partnership agreements for budget
support? |
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Preparing
for Doing Business Differently – How do we move from
business as usual to undertake joint analytical work/missions,
delegated cooperation, limiting use of parallel PIUs,and using
country systems, etc? |
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Managing
for Results – What steps or issues need to be considered
in strengthening accountability and learning from results
within the country? What steps should the donor community take
to promote harmonization around results frameworks at the
national, sectoral, or project levels? |
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Monitoring
Progress – Where are we today (baseline) and where do we
want to be in 3 years? What role can independent and or joint
assessments play? How can CGs be revamped to make them more
resource/results oriented and provide an enhanced monitoring
and supportive role in implementing the Paris Agenda? |
| 14:00 – 16:00 |
A Wrap-Up Panel will reflect and pull together the main
proposals and summarize the main outcomes and recommendations
of the learning workshop. Key Institutional and Country Level
follow-up activities will be agreed-upon. |
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A panel comprising Susan Stout (World Bank), Philibert
Afrika (ADB), Roger Wilson (DFID, Malawi), Joyce Mapunjo
(Tanzania), Mr. Talaat Abdel Malek (Egypt) will aim to bring
together the main learning outcomes by answering the following
and other related questions: |
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- What are the next steps countries and donors should do
at the country and institutional levels to advance the
implementation of the Paris Declaration?
- What kind of arrangement should governments put in place
to lead the country level processes and execute activities
related to realization of the commitments and agreements
made in Paris?
- What is the role of partner countries’ and those of
donors in making such a process result oriented?
- What should be the simple and effective framework for
monitoring and measuring results at the country level?
- What needs to be done to set realistic country level
indicators and targets?
- In summary, what are the actionable next steps and
country and donor level follow-up activities and
implementation timetable as well as monitoring
mechanisms?
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Closing Remarks: Host country / Judy O’Connor (WB)
/Christian Lehembre (OECD-DAC) / Partner Country Rep/UNDP
/Philibert Afrika (ADB) |
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Report titled "Voices
of the Partners - Making Capacity Development more
Effective", commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan. |
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