Ivco 2006 Forum Trends

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Trends in International Cooperationand Volunteering

2006 and the last five years

IVCO Conference 2006, Bonn



Rapid changes over last 5 years

• The MDG strategy a central focus for donors –

shaping PRSPs & national development sttategies• Post 9/11 agenda: preoccupation with (military)

security, instability, and perhaps identity & cohesion

• Aid falls reversed: new pledges on UN 0.7% target

• Poverty regularly in news and on mainstream politicalagenda (MPH/GCAP, Tsunami, Sudan and G8 focus)

• Aspects of globalisation a reality: access (for some)to information, increased mobility, global trade,finance and employment.



• Headline 31% rise in ODA to $106 billion in

2005, the highest level ever• DAC projects aid at $128 billion by 2010

• But - $23 billion of total was debt relief

(Nigeria & Iraq) – underlying rise 8.7%Projected aid growth with and without debt relief

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ODA net of debt relief

Headline ODA



Delivering more & better aid?

• Doubts on where funds for pledged increaseswill come from once debt relief fades in 2007

• Little real new money at country level

for IVCO priorities

• IVCOs feel pressure to find place within Parisdeclaration/aid effectiveness debate

• IVCOs and the challenge of new modalities:SWAPs, PRSPs and budget support



TC under the microscope

• Perceived need to reinforcing developingcountry ownership and accountability,

• the need to increase the effectiveness of

Technical Cooperation (TC)• DAC says: “TC and capacity development

are by no means synonymous…… a good

deal of what DAC scores as TC has little to do with capacity development”.





Budget support

• In past, IVCOs have been concerned that GBS could

limit involvement, contribution and access to funds

• Major evaluation says moves to PGBS are slow

• PGBS can significantly promote partnership

• But not a panacea – one of a family of programmebased approaches

• Room for technical assistance and capacity buildingto be better integrated to PGBS – is this an areawhere IVCOs can contribute?



Global Security Agenda

• Since 2003 impact on IVCOs has grown

– Countries where volunteers are prepared to go

– Increased importance placed on volunteer safety

and security raises costs of volunteer placements – Dominance of global security on the development

agenda

– Suspension of volunteer programmes in countriesaffected by conflict

– Militarization of development cooperation



Globalised communications and IVCOs

• Positive impact:

– volunteers shop around, gain betterunderstanding of country and placement

– Harnessing ‘virtual volunteers’

• Negatives:

– Volunteers don’t integrate as well

– More enquiries test response systems



Engaging with different actors

• Growth in private providers over 5 years• Growth in private sector collaboration

• More involvement of military• Private funders like Gates and funds

such as Global Fund for AIDS, TB &

malaria now distributing billions• When and how should IVCOs engage?



Short term & older placements

• Growing numbers seeking shortterm placements

–Gap year phenomenon –Career break

–Skills acquisition

• Older volunteers now a key group



Growth in 55 to 64 age group

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Over the next 20 years numbers of peopleaged 55 - 64 will grow in most countries – in India & Ireland by over 50%



15 – 29 age group stable or indecline over long term

Trend in the Number of People aged 15-29 - 1980-2050

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Percentage changes in younger age groupquite large over next 20 years



• Central role of southern partners indefining skills needed not new.

• But demand for new types of skill: – less TA and gap filling

– more capacity enhancement and exchange

– expectation of professionalism

Clear shift over 5 years (further) away from

north - south skills transfer to a much morediverse picture





Funding a familiar preoccupation – despite worst of aid squeeze being over

• Move over 5 years to more programmaticfunding for some IVCOs, in line with donorinterest in longer term more assured funding

• But this funding seldom open to smallerIVCOs

• Less sense of funding-led need to

demonstrate impact (less marginalisation)• Rather a concern shared with majority of

development agencies to show results



• In 2005 the world missed the first MDG(getting girls into school)

• Can IVCOs play a particular role on gender?

• Halfway from 1995 to 2015 (proportion ofpeople in poverty halved)

• Can IVCOs conceive of a world withoutabsolute poverty (goal envisaged at socialsummit).

• Sachs says this could happen by 2025. Butwhat special contribution could IVCOs make?



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IVCO survey!

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