REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA Council of Ministers Department of
REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA Council of Ministers Department of Strategy and Donor Coordination How Can DSDC work with IC to improve donor coordination Presented by Valbona KUKO, Director, Aid Coordination Unit, DSDC IC Plenary Meeting 28 April 2009
Role of DSDC in donor co-ordination NSDI Strategies (Sector & Cross-cutting) Priorities MTBP/ Public Investment Gap to be financed by Donors
Coordination structure Donors (Represented by Ho. Ms) Donor Roundtables Donor Technical Secretariat 4 Multilaterals (UNDP, EC, WB, OSCE) 2 Bilaterlas (Netherlands, Germany) Government (Chaired by Deputy PM) Department of Strategy and Donor Coordination (DSDC) IPS Support Group Go. A: DSDC, Mo. F, MEI; Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) Led by PM (DPM, Mo. F, MEI, METE, MPWTT. MD) IPS Coordination Group Led by DPM (DSDC, Mo. F, MEI) Donors: IPS Supporting Donors; DTS Agencies Sector Working Groups (SWGs) –as a tool for coordination at sector level 10 large SWGs (around 30 sub-SWGs); Co-chaired by LM & a DTS agency/bilateral donor FP
Progress made: 2008 Survey on Monitoring Paris Declaration DAC SURVEY 2008 Moderate high Ownership Moderate Low moderate Alignment Harmonization Low Low Managing for results Low DAC SURVEY 2006 Low Mutual accountability Low
Sector Problematic Large number of donor projects and large number of donors in the Justice and Home Affairs sector (data has been retrieved from the DSDC database): SECTOR No. of projects No. of Donors IBM 39 7 Anti-Corruption 10 5 Justice 72 10 Police, organized crime, terrorism and trafficking 68 13 Number of projects with less than 50, 000 EUR – 54 Disbursement rate 34% - 60% Too many projects…. means fragmented aid
JHA SWG operation IC as a focal point of JHA demonstrated a strong and active role Regular meetings of the groups/sub-groups for several years (21 meetings held in 2008) 2009 Calendar of the SWG meetings – JHA meetings proposed by the donor Focal Point/ICITAP Working group characterized as the only forum to raise and discuss legislative reforms and law enforcement issues
Challenges. . . JHA SWG Find ways to apply more joint/coordinated projects; pooledfunding; move toward Programme-Based Approaches and Sector Wide Approaches – explore the options of having a SWAP in JHA Also focus on identifying problems with implementation of different projects Serve as forums to exchange information on donor missions in the sector aiming at increasing the number of joint missions… Apply SWGs Terms of Reference Room to improve the SWG structure? Outcome: Progress toward meeting Paris Declaration Indicators
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