Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Group type: Public group

Meeting of the Informal Development Partners Working Group on Decentralisation and Local Governance (DeLoG) - Agenda and Presentations

When

From 18/05/2011 00:00 to 20/05/2011 00:00

Where

salle de réunion L41 07/23
Rue de la Loi 41
Bruxelles
Belgium
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The general objective of the 6th annual meeting is to take stock of the activities of the group carried out in 2011 and explore ways forward to make donor support more effective.

This year a special focus will be given to the publication in preparation for the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness to be held on 29 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2011 in Busan. The publication will focus on the Paris Declaration and Accra principles and will look at the extent to beneficiary countries and donors have found ways to increase ownership, used mechanisms to align and harmonise aid for decentralisation, and used results-based frameworks and mutual accountability mechanisms.

The meeting will also be an opportunity for donors and other participants to share good practices and experiences related to DLG. Especially issues such as the dynamics between decentralisation and sector programmes, fiscal decentralisation and how to measure the results and impact of decentralisation will be considered.

 

Time 

Day 1: Wednesday, May 18th  

10:30 – 10:45

Opening and Welcome Speech 

Francesca Mosca (EuropeAid)

Hans Wollny (BMZ)

10:45 – 11:30

Presentation of the agenda (Kuno Schläfli,SDC) 

­Round of introductions

­Presentation of new / external actors (10 min each):

- All Africa Ministerial Conference for Decentralisation and Local Development (AMCOD)

- UNDP ART Initiative

- United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

- Local Economic Development Network of Africa (LEDNA)

11:30 – 12:30

Activities of the DPWG-LGD  

- Brief activity report of the DPWG-LGD (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

Presentation Train4Dev (Francois Bary, Lux Development)

- Video on Train4Dev course harmonisation, decentralisation and local governance

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:45

Dynamics between decentralisation programmes and sector programmes  

(Pekka Sepälä, MFA Finland)

EuropeAid 's experience (Begona Bravo Hevia, EuropeAid)

World Bank experience in South Asia (Tara Sharafudeen, WB)

- Presentation (Jan Willem Nibbering, MFA Netherlands)

- Discussion

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:20

Measuring Progress of Decentralisation Reforms and Impact of Donor Support  

(Sebastian Bartsch, BMZ)

Constructing indicators to measure and monitor decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Klaus Veigel, KfW)

Independent Evaluation on GTZ support to decentralisation (Rainer Rohdewohld, GIZ)

Impact measurement of LGD (Kai Kaiser, WB)

- Discussion

17:20 – 17:30

Closure Day 1

 

Time 

Day 2: Thursday, May 19th  

9:00 – 11:00

Presentation of the DPWG-LGD Publication (Gabin Hamman, EuropeAid) 

Purpose of the publication (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

Main findings and recommendations (Soeren Villadsen, EC consultant)

- Discussion

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30

Road to Busan (Alex Gerbrandij, EuropeAid)

Towards 4HLF Busan  (Eduardo González, OECD)

- Decentralised cooperation (Giovanni Camilleri, UNDP ART)

Local Government perspective (Nestor Vega, UCLG)

- Discussion

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Working Groups (Paul Smoke, NYU)

3 or 4 working groups to discuss findings and recommendations of the study.

Themes will be defined based on provided inputs.

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 – 17:20

Restitution Working Groups

Feedback of group work in plenary

17:20 – 17:30

Closure Day 2

 

Time 

Day 3: Friday, May 20th  

9:00 – 10:30

Fiscal decentralisation and linkages to PFM
(Waltraud Rabitsch, ADA)

- Presentation based on Gold II report on local finance (UCLG) (Paul Smoke)

- Presentation of the SDC study on fiscal decentralisation 
  (Kuno Schläfli, SDC)

- Fiscal Decentralisation in Africa: Francois Yatta (LEDNA)

- Discussion

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Interactive session:

DPs Response in LGD to the situation in Northern Africa (Anki Dellnäs, ICLD)

- Panel Discussion: MAEE France, UNDP,  World Bank, EuropeAid

- Plenary Discussion

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Closing session

- Discussion on future activities of the DPWG-LGD (Jochen Mattern, GIZ)

- Next Year's Meeting?

14:00 – 14:30

Synthesis and ending of the conference
(EuropeAid, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)

This event is of the type External event.
This event is organised by: Rodriguez Bilba...