Intended Benefits of the Cairns Compact
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26th November 2009
INTENDED BENEFITS OF THE CAIRNS COMPACT
The Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific is intended to achieve better development outcomes through enhanced coordination and more effective delivery of development assistance.
The Compact was endorsed by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders at their meeting in Cairns last August.
When presenting an overview of the Compact to the Regional Workshop underway in Nadi, Fiji, Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Feleti Teo said to improve development outcomes, the Compact calls for cooperation not only amongst Pacific Island Countries (PICs) but also with and amongst development partners and regional and international agencies.
“In effect, a more coordinated approach could enable greater impact in responding to national development outcomes rather than individual efforts. This heightens the quality of that development assistance and as a result, making the benefits of development assistance more visible.”
Mr Teo added: “The Compact, successfully implemented, should assist and position PICs to better direct all available resources from their own national budgets and those from development partners towards achieving national development priorities.”
“It would also serve as a mechanism to allow development partners to better coordinate their development assistance and align them to agreed national development priorities prescribed in national development plans. It would give similar direction in the alignment and coordination of resources to regional priorities set by Forum Leaders under the framework of the Pacific Plan.”
Work on the Compact implementation schedule is now in progress and is being coordinated through the Forum Secretariat. Central to this process are simultaneous efforts to develop and consult on a peer review of national development plans process, a model of reporting on development plans, guidelines on the assessment of development partners support to the Compact and tracking development effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) progress.
The three-day regional workshop being held in Nadi, Fiji is part of an ongoing process to facilitate inclusive consultation with all stakeholders in progressing these efforts and subsequently its implementation. The workshop is attended by senior government officers as well as development partners and CROP agencies.
Participation of Forum Island Countries at the Regional Workshop on the Cairns Compact is funded by AusAID.
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For enquiries contact Mr Johnson Honimae, the Forum Secretariat’s Media Officer on phone 679 9458763
26th November 2009
INTENDED BENEFITS OF THE CAIRNS COMPACT
The Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific is intended to achieve better development outcomes through enhanced coordination and more effective delivery of development assistance.
The Compact was endorsed by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders at their meeting in Cairns last August.
When presenting an overview of the Compact to the Regional Workshop underway in Nadi, Fiji, Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Feleti Teo said to improve development outcomes, the Compact calls for cooperation not only amongst Pacific Island Countries (PICs) but also with and amongst development partners and regional and international agencies.
“In effect, a more coordinated approach could enable greater impact in responding to national development outcomes rather than individual efforts. This heightens the quality of that development assistance and as a result, making the benefits of development assistance more visible.”
Mr Teo added: “The Compact, successfully implemented, should assist and position PICs to better direct all available resources from their own national budgets and those from development partners towards achieving national development priorities.”
“It would also serve as a mechanism to allow development partners to better coordinate their development assistance and align them to agreed national development priorities prescribed in national development plans. It would give similar direction in the alignment and coordination of resources to regional priorities set by Forum Leaders under the framework of the Pacific Plan.”
Work on the Compact implementation schedule is now in progress and is being coordinated through the Forum Secretariat. Central to this process are simultaneous efforts to develop and consult on a peer review of national development plans process, a model of reporting on development plans, guidelines on the assessment of development partners support to the Compact and tracking development effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) progress.
The three-day regional workshop being held in Nadi, Fiji is part of an ongoing process to facilitate inclusive consultation with all stakeholders in progressing these efforts and subsequently its implementation. The workshop is attended by senior government officers as well as development partners and CROP agencies.
Participation of Forum Island Countries at the Regional Workshop on the Cairns Compact is funded by AusAID.
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For enquiries contact Mr Johnson Honimae, the Forum Secretariat’s Media Officer on phone 679 9458763
