Development partners to report against Cairns Compact
MEDIA RELEASE (77/09)
27th November 2009
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS TO REPORT AGAINST THE CAIRNS COMPACT
Development partners active in the Pacific region will be urged to provide an annual report to the Pacific Islands Forum on their efforts in support of the Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific.
The report should include efforts to reduce aid fragmentation, ease the burden of aid administration and improve aid effectiveness. This report will compliment reporting under the Compact on Forum Island Countries’ (FIC’s) national development plans and from more detailed peer reviews of these plans.
A regional workshop for senior Forum Officials, development partners and international agencies currently underway in Nadi, Fiji is discussing principles to guide the development partners reporting and what will the report focus on.
At a consultation in October on the Cairns Compact, key development partners in the region endorsed a set of principles to guide their reporting under the Compact to the Pacific Islands Forum.
It is proposed that reporting by development partners will focus on key elements of aid effectiveness – alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability. These elements are drawn from the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Pacific Aid Effectiveness Principles.
Partner reports may consist of descriptive examples that are representative of their efforts around the region plus quantitative data on a limited set of indicators for those FICs in which each partner is active.
It is proposed that development partners be asked to provide representative examples of how they align their programmes with FIC priorities and systems and how this have reduced aid fragmentation, eased the burden of aid administration and improved effectiveness.
A discussion paper tabled at the regional workshop is proposing that the reporting process for the development partners be finalised no later than January 2010 to allow sufficient time for partners to report and the Forum Secretariat to prepare its consolidated assessment.
The three-day regional workshop will end tomorrow.
ENDS.
For enquiries, contact Mr Johnson Honimae, the Forum Secretariat’s Media Officer on phone 679 9458763.
27th November 2009
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS TO REPORT AGAINST THE CAIRNS COMPACT
Development partners active in the Pacific region will be urged to provide an annual report to the Pacific Islands Forum on their efforts in support of the Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific.
The report should include efforts to reduce aid fragmentation, ease the burden of aid administration and improve aid effectiveness. This report will compliment reporting under the Compact on Forum Island Countries’ (FIC’s) national development plans and from more detailed peer reviews of these plans.
A regional workshop for senior Forum Officials, development partners and international agencies currently underway in Nadi, Fiji is discussing principles to guide the development partners reporting and what will the report focus on.
At a consultation in October on the Cairns Compact, key development partners in the region endorsed a set of principles to guide their reporting under the Compact to the Pacific Islands Forum.
It is proposed that reporting by development partners will focus on key elements of aid effectiveness – alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability. These elements are drawn from the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Pacific Aid Effectiveness Principles.
Partner reports may consist of descriptive examples that are representative of their efforts around the region plus quantitative data on a limited set of indicators for those FICs in which each partner is active.
It is proposed that development partners be asked to provide representative examples of how they align their programmes with FIC priorities and systems and how this have reduced aid fragmentation, eased the burden of aid administration and improved effectiveness.
A discussion paper tabled at the regional workshop is proposing that the reporting process for the development partners be finalised no later than January 2010 to allow sufficient time for partners to report and the Forum Secretariat to prepare its consolidated assessment.
The three-day regional workshop will end tomorrow.
ENDS.
For enquiries, contact Mr Johnson Honimae, the Forum Secretariat’s Media Officer on phone 679 9458763.
