Europe Aid Training Seminar EC support to governance
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Europe. Aid Training Seminar: EC support to governance in partner countries – with a focus on the African continent Introduction July 6 th, 2011
Governance at the top of donors’ political agenda and cooperation priorities. OECD governments spend over 7 billion EUR a year on governance interventions Explosion of governance-related - research, - actors, - initiatives and - approaches Europe. Aid
Governance is a top priority, BUT results are mixed…. Europe. Aid “Governance reform in Africa has lost its way. Twenty years after ‘good governance’ moved to the centre-stage in international declarations, official aid policies and nongovernmental advocacy alike, the results of efforts to improve the way African countries are ruled remain seriously insufficient” David Booth, in “Working with the grain: the Africa Power and Politics Programme”, 2011
Europe. Aid THE 1 -MILLION QUESTION HOW TO PROMOTE GOVERNANCE IN “HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS”
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Governance agenda is overloaded Europe. Aid Good governance agenda has inflated expanded to cover multiple objectives The long list of measures prescribed under the label “good governance’ [normative approach] cannot be implemented over the short to medium term … yet donors need to show quick results… with the attending danger of a-historic “leapfrogging” strategies … leading to fragmentation (each cluster addressed separately) and instrumental approaches (call for proposals replacing strategies)…
Do we have know sufficiently to support reforms or do we act as blind helmsman ? Europe. Aid
Winner reaching the finishing line ? Europe. Aid
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Main trends in “new thinking” about governance • The rise (rebirth) of political economy analysis • Good enough governance • Working with the grain (local political context first, rediscovery of “citizenship”) • From best practice to best fit • Governance upside down • “home-grown” thinking and practices on governance • New opportunities for the ‘rights agenda”? Europe. Aid
Some quotes for reflection Europe. Aid “…think less about what ought to be happening and more politically about what is actually happening, what works and why – and build on that” (Unsworth, in “Getting better governance: insights from new research”, 2006) “ Those development programs that are most precisely and easily measured are the least transformational, and those programs that are most transformational are the least measurable” (Andrew Natsios, USAID)
Europe. Aid “Working politically in development means supporting, brokering, facilitating and aiding the emergence and practices of developmental or reform leaderships, organizations, networks and coalitions, in the public and private fields, at all levels, and across all sectors, in response to, and in concert with, initiatives and requests from local individuals and groups. It means investing in processes … sometimes over long periods, committed to institutional reform and innovation” (Adrian Leftwich)
Europe. Aid What level of ambitions for EU next years in the field of governance? How to adapt internal organisation, values, practices and behaviour?
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