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Policy Coherence for Development Recent developments from a donor perspective. Frederik Haver Droeze Policy Coherence UnitHelsinki symposium The NetherlandsJune 2010. The setting. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Policy Coherence for Development
Recent developments from a donor perspective
Frederik Haver Droeze
Policy Coherence Unit Helsinki symposiumThe Netherlands June 2010
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The setting
• Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is increasingly seen as the key to modern development cooperation. • PCD is part of a search for a holistic approach to development and coherent global policies.• That wider policies matter is not a new insight, but the systematic translation into PCD has developed in the last 5 – 10 years.• The changing global setting has given a strong impetus: crises, growing interconnectedness, global public goods, G-20.
• Non-aid policies have an enormous (underdeveloped) potential for contributing to the MDGs.
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Specific PCD instruments have been introduced
• Mechanisms developed in donor countries like the Netherlands whole-of-government approach, PCD Unit, reporting.
• EU development consensus, biennial report, workprogramme, new PCD strategy with focus on five themes, report EP.
• OECDMC declaration, synthesis report, good institutional practices, toolkit, DAC reflection exercise, flagship PCD report, development council.
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Lessons learned (1)
•PCD is about political choices.
Political weight, public awareness, external pressure, financial power, all these matter more than formal structures.
• Nevertheless mechanisms are needed: the general framework developed by ODI and OECD can help, but ..
•Mechanisms need to be country-specific: no blueprints.
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Lessons learned (2)
• Difficult to make PCD operational and show results.
• Lack of knowledge and focus are still major impediments.
• Missing link with national strategies of developing countries, policy space is often the key.
• PCD is not an alternative for aid.
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Examples: success or failure?
Doha development roundClimate adaptation, the Copenhagen conference Duty free market access for least developed countiresAgriculture, subsidiesSecurity and development nexus, three D’sIntellectual property rights, the TRIPS+ agreementDebt restructuring arrangementsTax and illicit flowsMigration
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Challenges
• Create commitment at the global level: monitoring of multilateral rulemaking, MDG8, role UN.
• Highlight results and impact: developing indicators, accoutanbility.
• Keep focus in a broader development policy.
• Connect with the local and national level in developing countries.