ENGAGING STRATEGICALLY WITH NON-STATE ACTORS IN NEW AID MODALITIES 7th July 2011 DEVCO-Europeaid – D2 civil Society.

ENGAGING STRATEGICALLY

WITH NON-STATE ACTORS IN NEW AID

MODALITIES

7th July 2011

DEVCO-Europeaid – D2 civil Society

Topic of the session

How can the EC

– engage strategically and operationally

– with both the state and non-state actors

– on various development related issues

– namely when it provides “budget support”

– or engages in “sector policy support programme”

(So called “New Aid Modalities”)

Countries engaged with NSA in BS and SPSP

DOMAIN COUNTRY

Education-literacy Policy Morocco/Ecuador

Service delivery Ethiopia

General Budget Support Ghana

Health India

Justice South Africa

Natural resources and environment

Ghana

Ghana (1)

General Budget Support

Financial mechanism: multi donor funding

Objectives:

Improve national Planning

Area of accounting for public expenditure

Discussed and agreed with the Government

Foreseen in Country Strategic Paper

Roles for NSA: monitoring, policy dialogue, advocacy

Ecuador (1)

Sectoral Budget Support to Ecuadorian national Education plan

Funding: EU

Objectives:

• In the short term:

Reinforce Country M&E systems

Reinforce Constitution implementation: Citizens participation in national policies

• And in the long run:

establish relationship between public and private sector based on trust

Promote result oriented and domestic accountability

Ecuador (2)

KEY FEATURES

Mapping of actors and roles Added-value

EC negotiated with the State the involvement of NSAs at early stage

Related indicators to performance of both Govt & NSAs

Negotiated to put aside part of SBS to support NSAs

Call for proposals (restricted/targeted) managed by DEL but transparent with Govt.

Overview of functions and roles of NSAs in the cases

VoicePublic

EducationAccountability

Services provision

Social CapitalCapacity

developmentInnovation/

pilotingLeveraging

efforts

Case 1: MoroccoEducation – literacy

policy

Case 2: Ethiopia(Basic Services)

Case 3: Ghana

Case 4: Ghana (Natural resources and

environment)

Case 5: India (Education and Health)

Case 6: South Africa (Justice)

Case 7: Ecuador (Education)

EC/EU policies/agendas concerned

ParticipatorydevelopmentParticipatorydevelopment

Development assistance includes support to and through NSAs

Development assistance includes support to and through NSAs

Involving NSA contributes to strengthen domestic accountability

Involving NSA contributes to strengthen domestic accountability

Development is a multi-stakeholder/multi actor process where the central state is one of the actors

Development is a multi-stakeholder/multi actor process where the central state is one of the actors

NSAs are not only implementing agencies but also promoters of democracy, justice and human rights

NSAs are not only implementing agencies but also promoters of democracy, justice and human rights

EU is committed to support NSAs to fully participate in political, economic and social dialogue processes (mainstreaming of NSA participation)

EU is committed to support NSAs to fully participate in political, economic and social dialogue processes (mainstreaming of NSA participation)

Civil Society is recognized in all its diversity (concept of non state actors)

Civil Society is recognized in all its diversity (concept of non state actors)

Participatory development

Potential obstacles in partner countries

?

Political commitment behind pro-poor policies?

Does civil society have the capacities/interest to engage with the state?

Is there an enabling environment for Non-State Actors to participate?

Is the budget transparent? Does it reflect priorities? Is it credible

Is there an open and transparent dialogue with NSAs?

Are there incentives to involve NSA in BS and SPSP ?

Challenges for DEL/NSA

?

Strong political commitment behind declarations

Is the civil society enabled to engage with the state through the PCM ?

Is there an enabling environment for Non-State Actors to participate?

Coordination and Harmonisation amongst donors

Deeper and objective knowledge of NSA/CSOs

Prepared to play a facilitation role

Fundamentals of this “new” approach

NSAs are full fledge actorsNSAs are full fledge actors

Analyze state-society

relations systematically

Analyze state-society

relations systematically

Explore full potential

within and beyond NAM

Explore full potential

within and beyond NAM

EC Prepared to play new

roles

EC Prepared to play new

roles

Introduce systematically “political economy” and “governance”

analysis

Introduce systematically “political economy” and “governance”

analysis

Use several analytical tools to know the CSOs (mapping, sectoral studies)Use several analytical tools to know the CSOs (mapping, sectoral studies)11

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Analyze state-society

relations systematically

Possible entry points for analysis of

state-society relations

What affects the opportunities for NSAs to participate?

What are the relations between state and society?

Who holds power over whom?

Who exerts pressure on whom? Who influences whom? With what means?

What are the resources, and how are these distributed?

What are incentives? Why is it difficult for citizens to work collectively?

What is the history? The history of struggle? The history of social or other movements? The history of repression?

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Prepared for playing new roles and being creative within the existing

procedures.

Prepared for playing new roles and being creative within the existing

procedures.

Systematically apply a ‘political economy’ system

Systematically apply a ‘political economy’ system

Avoid a ‘technocratic’ approach to aid effectiveness

Avoid a ‘technocratic’ approach to aid effectiveness

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New roles for EC/DEL

Questions for the discussion

Do DEL welcome the idea of NSAs playing an active role in BS and SPSP ? Relevance and added value ? Risks ? Problems (time and resource consuming)

Do the DEL consider that this approach should be pushed forward in the follow up of the structured dialogue with civil society and in the forthcoming communication on NSA ?

What is required from the NSAs AND from the Commission to push such process (enabling environment, capacity development, specific role of “Northern” NSAs) ? Is it feasible ? Do we have the means ?

Thank you

for your attention !