Work plan for Busan

The "Road to Busan" working group has identified 10 key priorities to pursue between now and the High Level Forum.  All members of the Learning Network are invited to participate in any or all of these initiatives.  Please contact the people named below for more information.

1. Promote the Cairo consensus in HLF IV preparations

The Cairo Consensus represents a concise set of messages as common reference to help shape the agenda, main and side events and deliberations in preparation and at the HLF IV in Busan. The main WP-Eff meeting in July and October will be important as other regional and thematic preparatory meetings over the coming months. The strategy was discussed a couple of weeks back with Talaat Abdel Malek as co-chair of the WP-Eff who really is the key advocate in this process. The overview by Jim Hradsky in the annex below provides some more indications. There are important events organized among donor partners, including the recent workshop on Capacity works by GIZ and next weeks event in Brussels convened by the EC.

Network partners are invited to use and promote the Cairo Consensus to advocate for CD reforms throughout the preparation process and to help Network.

Contact: James Hradsky (James.HRADSKY@oecd.org)

2. Country and sub-regional dialogues

"Stress testing the Cairo Consensus" is the title of an initiative to organize county dialogues on CD in the lead up to Busan. UNDP is taking the lead with other network partners. Dialogues can take different shapes depending on context. The first of these dialogues is taking place 11/12 July in Rwanda in collaboration with PSCBS. Further dialogues are likely in Burundi, DRC, Egypt, Kenya and other countries to be identified. You all have seen the terms of reference circulated earlier and information will be available through the LenCD website.

Network partners may want to initiate one or the other dialogue or ensure that country level partners can effectively participate.

Contact: Alessandra Casazza (alessandra.casazza@undp.org)

3. Demonstrate a systematic learning approach

Brian has further developed the LenCD platform and also connected with network partners to ensure that the LenCD platform adds value by integrating with other resources. The challenge is to ensure that lessons and insights are indeed brought back from diverse events into collective reflection and learning processes. The following innovations will be priority in the next months:

• Case window: There are already several sets of case stories accessible and labelled at www.LenCD.org. Brian will continue to integrate case sources, develop an easy access catalogue, key wording, develop standards for quality and format, etc.
• Topic pages: They will be upgraded to take fully in the latest round of content generated through the Perspectives notes (July) and then be further developed to integrate regularly pertinent content and links.
• Calendar:The calendar will be a useful instrument to ensure that the roadmap towards  Busan is clear. It also will guide action to bring back content from various events and initiatives when available through blogs, synthesis, integration in topic pages etc. (August)
• General document library: There is work to do to better access the resource on the site by developing tagging and cataloguing and  easy intake of new relevant resources.
• Interconnection:  The various elements will need to be further interconnected within the LenCD platform and with other CD knowledge spaces to make access and use more rational and effective.
• Updates: The Updates have now a distinct format and appear about once a month. They are a regular check point on what needs to be communicated and connected where.

Another critical element is the learning package that has the potential to become the motor for continued reflection and updating of the knowledge base and tailoring content for specific needs (see below)

Network partners are invited to engage in all of the above by connecting their respective sites through RSS feeds, by providing content and alerts, by writing blog entries from events and initiatives, by using the site and proposing improvements.

Contact: Brian Lucas  (Brian@LenCD.org)

4. Develop a collective learning resource on CD

The learning package has advanced well given that Jenny was slowed down by Dengue fever. She nevertheless made it to the Train4Dev annual meeting in Brussels end May where the package had a very positive reception. The partnership with Train4Dev goes now into its 3^rd year with Deena Philage and Kerstin Kude-Osman co-chairing the CD sub-group. Agreements have been made on finalizing a 1^st phase package (mid July) while keeping materials to be developed around "How to pages" under construction in Wikis under the dedicated working group. A pilot in Cambodia is confirmed (perhaps in Rwanda) and others to be identified. First pilots are to take place in early fall with a revision of materials by October. Phase 2 starting November is under preparation.  GIZ has initiated a learning programme based and linked on the package that is pitched to involve multipliers in learning and co-developing. 

Network partners can get engaged in the working group, take the lead in promoting and facilitating learning events/processes on the ground.

Contact: Jenny Pearson  (jennycpearson@gmail.com) or Kerstin Kude-Osman (kerstin.kude-osman@giz.de)

5. Strengthen evidence on Managing for capacity results

On this topic preparatory work was carried out with network engagement. Please refer to the scoping paper by Heather Baser that lays out issues and promising approaches. The workstream currently aims at sharpening a joint statement on results and capacity development "GETTING TO SUSTAINABLE RESULTS THAT MATTER". All documents are available at the workspace "Managing for Capacity Results" (www.LenCD.org).  We should not expect and aim for a "magic formulation" that suits everybody and the text is NOT meant to be a "negotiated resolution". Building on the Cairo Consensus this statement should articulate well the issues and the direction reforms should be heading towards. It can be expected that work in this area will go on way beyond Busan.

Network partners are invited to comment on and endorse the statement to provide it with adequate weight for Busan. A dedicated working group is open for engagement.

Contact: Nils Boesen  (nils.boesen@undp.org) and Alessandra Casazza (alessandra.casazza@undp.org)

6. Strengthening Stakeholder Ownership through Capacity Development

WBI lead network study: A dedicated study has been initiated by WBI with many network partners. It involves a literature review and framing of selected case studies. Concretely, the study will examine and seek to demonstrate, the following: 

• Observability of stakeholder ownership, by clarifying the definition of stakeholder ownership and identifying how it has been observed.
• Operability of stakeholder ownership, by seeking and examining examples in which stakeholder ownership has been fostered through deliberate action.

This study is linked to WP-Eff Cluster A has worked on this issue since Accra and is currently shaping a synthesis document “Key Findings and Cluster A Messages”available on the WP-Eff portal. 

Network partners are invited to join this study by flagging and/or documenting relevant cases.

Contact:  Mark Nelson (Mnelson1@worldbank.org) and Nicola Smithers (nsmithers@worldbank.org)

7. Strengthen evidence on Technical cooperation for CD

This topic received particular impetus at the Cairo event. There are at least three spin-offs:

1. The RT5 group from Cairo has continued as a working group to develop a statement of key messages on TC reform for Busan. This should shortly be available and will also be subject to discussion in the Asia regional event 'see below)
2. The TC Perspectives note will be further developed in light of the above and finalized in July.
3. Jim will also write a DAC approach paper donor reform in TC for CD.

There will be discussions on this in next weeks EC workshop.

Network partners are invited to comment and engage in shaping the messages based on the working group's draft

Contact: Jim Hradsky  (James.HRADSKY@oecd.org)

8. Africa regional process on development effectiveness

APDev has further developed as knowledge platform where linkages are being made through Brian. APDev also provides the forum for a political dialogue with an expected regional position for Busan. There are several processes ongoing:

1. Knowledge event: convening African CD practitioners in Kenya should have taken place last week in Nairobi but was postponed with a date to be announced. The event is meant to launch a kind of advisory pool around CD in the region.
2. 3rd Regional Forum:  Following the Pretoria and Tunis events a third regional forum is planned to articulate and African position/consensus for Busan. 27-30 Sept . Venue Addis Ababa.
3. Video link across regions: A suggestion made by African colleagues was to connect the regional process once events have taken place to stregthen concertation before Busan. A physical event is not very likely but it may be possible to connect a spokesperson group from each region across continents. Perhaps WBI could facilitate a video link around early October.
4. Civil Society and Development EffectivenessIn the task team on CSO DE Janet Awimbo proposed that regional workshops might be arranged in partnership with LenCD. As far as Africa is concerned the CS/Gvt interface initiative has remained dormant so far but could eventually take shape in this context.

Network partners are invited to participate in APDev and engage in the Africa initaitives as pertinent.

Contact:Florence Nazare (florence.nazare@gmail.com) and Isamail Abdirahman (ismail.abdirahman@gmail.com), Apollinaire Ndorukwigira (a.ndorukwigira@acbf-pact.org)

9. Asia regional LenCD meeting

The Asia forum is taking shape and a concept note is forthcoming shortly. In a nutshell the idea is to organize a 1.5 day CD forum focussing on TC reform on 14/15 September 2011. This would follow the regional meeting around Aid Effectiveness of Climate Finance on 12-13 September, where several Asian countries will be represented, and relevant government participants from the Environment, Planning, and Finance Ministries will already be present. The Cairo RT5 paper under development by a working group facilitated by Jim Hradsky, and the synthesis report would provide the basis for the discussion. The gathering would focus on learning what has been behind the Asian TC successes, and what has worked well in this context and reinforce messages for Busan.

Network members are invited to support this event substantively and by supporting some of the organizing and travel costs.

Contact:  Tony Tujan (atujan@ibon.org), Dipa Bagai (dipa.bagai@undp.org), Alessandra Casazza (alessandra.casazza@undp.org)

10. LAC regional LenCD meeting

The event is envisaged to be held from 26 to 28 September 2011 in Bogotá. There will be 2 separate events integrated by “the South-South Cooperation umbrella”:

• SSC- Task-Team Event: the evidence to Busan (26-27 Sep)
• Capacity Development- Regional Dialogue (Latin America) (27-28 Sep)

The Capacity Development event will include:

• Introduction by LenCD about CD. (most likely this first half day session will focus on the Cairo Consensus and/or TC reforms, with a focus on the Latin America context)
• Rural Poverty (Food Security) - A case of CD.  

Accion Social and PREVAL is taking the lead. The concept note and budget will be shared shortly and the event needs network partner support.

Network partners are invited to comment on concept and actively support the event with content and financial support.

Contact: Viviana Canon (Viviana.Canon@accionsocial.gov.co), Alessandra Casazza (alessandra.casazza@undp.org)