A Presentation By: By: Anupama Jha

Executive Director, TI India

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Development Pact

POLITICIANS SITTING WITH ADMINISTRATORS IN A ROOM PREPARING DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR THE POOR

WHAT DOES IT LEAD TO

Increase in corruption, lack of inclusive development and growth.

People no longer trust their political leaders and administrators.

Corruption in political and administrative institutions add to the problem. It enables disproportionate access to political and administrative decisions, benefiting a few at public cost.

Corruption also creates poverty through unequal opportunities for citizens

DEVELOPMENT PACT

The Development Pact is a tool in the hands of the poor that creates political incentives to fight corruption in development

Pacts between champions and the poor can convert political will into development benefits and accountability.

They aim to improve : Public accountability in the decision –making on

public resources and Access to and quality of public goods & services

RIGHT HOLDERS WORKING ON THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

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HOW DO PACTS HELP

Pacts help common citizens to create a development agenda for the elected leaders.

They also track the delivery of development commitments and the decision-making process by demanding inclusive, empowered and institutionalised citizen participation in development processes.

Pacts are tools in the hands of the poor that creates political incentives to fight corruption in development .

TI India adds its political access, convening power and high visibility to create public scrutiny and pressure on commitments given by the political champions

2. Dialogue

a) Support partners in identifying tangible benefits

b) Create provisional pact content through bilateral dialogues

c) Initiate public dialogue between key stakeholders

5. Review

Periodically revisit:

a) The integrity of the tool: Broad-based review & participation mechanisms

b) The ‘visibility’ of the tool: The benefits gained, benchmarks set & role models created

c) Its ability to sustain & replicate: Links to multipliers, trends and larger reforms

Replication through Success

1. Prepare

a) Map strategic opportunities & risks for DPs

b) Identify partnership opportunities: CSOs, media, etc.

c) Identify & screen promising key partners: public officials, citizen groups / CBOs

Steps in the creation of a Development Pact

TI involvement as Facilitator

3. Agreement

a). On RESULTS: Key accountability and development targets to be delivered

b) On a ROADMAP: With time-bound & specific targets and clarity on each partners commitments

c) Issues can be: education, health, agriculture, water, infrastructure, etc.

4. Launch

a) Create a highly public event for the Pact signature and launch

b) Create a broad-based inclusive ceremony

c) Ensure a ‘cultural’ element creates true ownership and “sanctity”

DEVELOPMENT PACT IS INNOVATIVE Instead of political bashing, it creates incentives for

political champions to be honest and deliver on development agenda

Creates opportunities for empowered participation of poor in shaping and enforcing public accountability

Gives opportunities to citizens to organise themselves and link their development priorities to the fight against corruption. It also gives them credible options at the political level to choose from .

It works with political champions who get limited in an environment of entrenched corruption

DEVELOPMENT PACT IS REPLICABLE It has already been replicated in other countries. An

inclusive corruption – free planning and implementation process benefits all stakeholders in the Pact. Hence pacts are working in India at the state and block level, in Zambia at the ward level, at nine sub-countries in the district of Rakai in Uganda and in Nepal. Slowly, other TI chapters in Bangladesh and elsewhere are also replicating this method.

Civic participation in preparing development agenda and their training in monitoring their elected representatives has resulted in strengthening the grassroots communities who have continued to work even after we withdrew.

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CHALLENGES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PACT Finding a political champion An environment of entrenched corruption Lack of opportunities for a corruption-free path to power /

promotion Development deliverables are seen in competition with

corruption Citizens do not have options at individual levels to act

differently Lack of credible options at political level to choose from Lack of organised action linking their development

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SOLUTIONS

Success of Development Pacts in selected constituencies in India, at state level as well as local level have encouraged us to believe that these can work.

Its replication in other countries across the world has strengthened our belief.

It helps citizens and public officials identify steps that take them out of entrenched corruption.

Helps in participatory governance that eventually leads to decreased tolerance to corruption

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