By Veronica Rita Sackey - MDBS Coordinator GHANA AID POLICY & STRATEGY Accra, 23 September 2010.
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by Veronica Rita Sackey - MDBS Coordinator
GHANA AID POLICY & STRATEGY
Accra, 23 September 2010
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Presentation Outline
♦ What is the Ghana Aid Policy & Strategy♦ Rationale for the Policy♦ Highlights of the Policy♦ Objectives of the Policy♦ Overview of Challenges♦ Policy/Strategy Areas ♦ What is New?♦ Implementing the Policy♦ Next Steps
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What is the Ghana Aid Policy & Strategy
♦ A coherent and consolidated framework in the management and coordination of external aid.
♦ Sets out policies and strategies for the sourcing and utilisation of aid.
♦ Under-pinned by the principles agreed to in the PD and reinforced in the AAA.
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Rationale
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Highlights of the Policy
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Objectives
Promote aid effectiveness
Ownership & Leadership
Effective aid coordination &
mgmt
Manage for development
resultsStrengthen
mutual accountability
Move beyond aid
dependency
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Overview of Challenges I
♦ Aligning aid: Much of the assistance provided remains off-plan and off budget.
♦ Non-use of Country Systems: Despite improvements in PFM systems, DPs’ use has declined.
♦ Fragmentation in sourcing/managing aid: Contracting of aid is currently not centrally coordinated.
♦ Transaction Costs: Demand on GoG in terms of time, reporting needs, uncoordinated missions, etc
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Overview of Challenges II
♦ Inadequate capacity for aid delivery: Absence of national capacity development strategy.
♦ Conditionality & Unpredictability of aid: Use of policy/process conditionalities affects predictability of aid (volume, quality, timing, etc)
♦ Information on aid flows: Incomplete reporting of ODA hinders monitoring & management of aid received.
♦ Inadequate coordination of aid: Lack of strong linkages within MoFEP and with MDAs as well as non-alignment of DP commitments to GoG priorities.
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Policy/Strategy Areas I:
♦ Legal Framework
♦ Sourcing/Mobilization of external aid (Aid
Modalities)
♦ Technical Cooperation & Capacity Development
♦ Aid Coordination
♦ Aligning Aid with Development Priorities
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Policy/Strategy Areas II:
♦ Harmonization
♦ Financial Oversight & Accountability
♦ Mutual Accountability
♦ Managing for Development Results
♦ Institutional Framework for Sourcing &
Managing Aid
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What is New?
♦ Legal framework governing aid, which provides the basis for additional documents to complement the Policy.
♦ Mutual Accountability Framework: Independent monitoring group
♦ Aid Management Information System♦ Capacity Development Framework♦ GoG Coordination: National Aid Roundtable♦ Coordination with DPs: Government-DP Group
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NDPC GSSMoFEP
CSPG (MDAs, CSOs)
Regional Monitoring
Group
District Monitoring
Group
President’s Office
Parliament
GoG – DP Group
MDBS Group
DP Quarterly Pr. Review; DP
Portfolio Reviews;
Annual Policy Hearings
SWG SWG
SWGSWG
Heads of Cooperation
Group
Heads of Mission Group
CSO Umbrella
Group
Government
Gov - DP
Dev. Partners
CSO
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WG
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CSO Group on Aid
Effectiveness
Development Coordination Architecture - GhanaAid Coordination Mechanisms and M&E of Development Framework
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Implementing the Policy
Specific roles are identified for the following Government institutions:
♦ Cabinet♦ Parliament♦ MoFEP♦ MDAs♦ Ghana Audit Service♦ NDPC♦ BoG♦ CAGD
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Next Steps
♦ The development of additional documents to fully operationalize the Policy document.
♦ Development and approval of roadmap towards implementing the Aid Policy and Strategy
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