Antonio Tujan Jr.

IBON InternationalBetteraid

Are results important? Results agenda for aid effectivenessWhy results fundamental to aid quality reformReciprocal relationship between results

framework/agenda and aid effectiveness principles – Ownership; Accountability; Managing for results

For development partners – assuming and managing risks for genuine results agenda

Components of results agendaUnited around country targets and strategies in

programming and planningEfficient management for low cost deliveryIncorporating mechanisms to ensure results in

inclusive program managementMonitoring and evaluation to demonstrate clear

outputs and outcomes

Dangers of donor-driven “results agenda” - Are we being distracted from development?Donor “Value for money” – an investor framework averse

to risk?Excessive focus on quantifiable short term development

outcomes captures the development objective and processM & E transformed into fetish for measuring outcome

indicatorsDisregard of the development process and local actorsDisregard of unquantifiable or difficult complex processes

such as capacity development - (“not everything that can be measured is important and not everything important can be measured” – Albert Einstein)

Diminution of human rights approach in developmentThe PBF – the big push forward a response from IDS

against the narrowing of what is valued and how value is measured

What results, how to get results Development - Quality of life, opportunities for human

potentialBroad country ownership the start to determining:

What results are meaningful to country needs and strategies for development?

Aid effectiveness – What processes to negotiate national development

strategies and results for aid assisted programsWhat mechanisms to incorporate rights-based approaches

(such as empowerment, consultation and participatory components) in aid assisted programs and projects

What affirmative mechanisms to ensure participation and benefit fo women and other marginalized sectors

What mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation for affirmative and inclusive participation, coverage and effective attribution for development results in monitoring and evaluation?

Development effectiveness – results focus for people’s development Development effectiveness deepens and

strengthens effectiveness and results agenda to people’s development – how development cooperation empowers the people especially the excluded to claim their rights and strengthens governance mechanisms to uphold and defend people’s rights

Development cooperation mechanisms that are based on human rights agenda to ensure development results - empowerment, affirmative approaches, capacity development

Development trajectories premised on people’s economic participation, welfare and benefit

Difficulties and benefits

Monitoring and EvaluationM&E as inclusive country owned processPhilippines national platform on M & EFactors for LDCs

capacity of state and institutions for leadershipChampions among donorsReadiness to engage inclusivelyCapacity of civil society and parliament for

sustained constructive participation M & E process