CONSULTATION on the CDDE 2010 WORK PLAN

Dear Members of the Asia-Pacific Aid Effectiveness Community of Practice (AE CoP)

CDDE Progress Report: It is with great pleasure that we provide you with the first progress report of the Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE) Facility covering its first six months.  The CDDE Steering Committee met on Monday 16 November – including government, civil society, parliamentary and donor representatives – and endorsed the assessment provided in the report. The Steering Committee recognised the value that partners countries have placed upon the support provided by the Facility and asked that the Facility continue to focus on supporting countries in making progress in implementing the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action. More information on progress across all the CDDE initiatives and the Steering Committee minutes are available at www.aideffectiveness.org/cdde.  

2010 CDDE Work Plan: The CDDE Steering Committee also asked the CDDE Secretariat to begin work with you – the Asia-Pacific AE CoP – to develop a work plan for 2010 which maintains a focus on responding to demand from policy makers and practitioners at the country level from across stakeholders, government, parliament, CSOs and donors; supports peer-to-peer initiatives across countries that tackle capacity development challenges that you consider top priority; supports your engagement with international policy processes that you consider assist your country level work; and provides knowledge management services that are centred on your needs at country level.

Please can you send your suggestions for the work plan to the Secretariat ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by Friday 26 February 2010. The Secretariat will compile your responses and send out a draft work plan for your review in February. Funding commitments to CDDE should be finalised over the coming weeks and this will of course also influence how many proposals can be supported. The Steering Committee will take account of your feedback and finalise the work plan in March/April 2010.

Some ideas for 2010 Work Plan: Your proposals are sought across all three CDDE service lines. Members of the CoP have already made some suggestions, and we list those below. Please indicate if you support any of these ideas and have other proposals to suggest please let us know, and indicate if you would like to lead any of these initiatives. Please provide your feedback by email and, if possible, please complete the very short one page survey (click  here). Our CDDE Secretariat are happy to respond to any questions you may have, or to work with you to develop your ideas further where they fit with the CDDE Facility results and ways of working.

Service Line 1: Peer-to-Peer Exchange – strengthening collaboration in Asia-Pacific

-  Support peer-to-peer exchange on use of country systems and link countries to Global Partnership on Country Systems (part of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF) at the OECD DAC).

-  Support a representative group of Asia-Pacific countries to provide their voice and recommendations to international aid processes such as WP-EFF, preparations for High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4 in Korea, 2011), and the UN Development Cooperation Forum.

-  Support south-south collaboration on reviewing and strengthening mutual accountability.

-  Facilitate peer exchange between parliaments of development partners and partner countries.

Service Line 2: Knowledge Management – connecting people and knowledge

-  Develop an Asia-Pacific Development Effectiveness Report on a challenge you face which shares lessons across the region and into the international community (including HLF-4). Ideas for topics sought – eg aid effectiveness and climate change: how can we ensure new climate funds are used effectively?

-  Develop a resource book on best practices in aid effectiveness in Asia-Pacific region.

-  Support partner countries in giving recommendations in 2010 on how to improve the Paris Declaration Survey monitoring process and provide a helpdesk for countries doing the survey in early 2011.

-  Support countries taking part in the Paris Declaration Evaluation process to ensure they share lessons and get the maximum benefit from taking part in the Evaluation.

-  Work with you to gather evidence of progress in promoting mutual accountability and transparency of aid at the country level and feed this to the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum and other fora.

Service Line 3: Capacity Development Services – assessing needs & strategies to meet them

-  Support partner countries in learning from countries that have carried out assessments of their capacities to manage aid effectively and have developed capacity development strategies in response. Improve access to methodologies and support you in adapting them to your needs.

Please do feel free either to support or refine the ideas listed above or give new ideas for proposals.

We look forward to working with you in 2010.

With our best wishes

Lava Deo Awasthi, CDDE Co-Chair and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education of Nepal &

Indu Bhushan CDDE Co-Chair and Director, Strategy & Policy Department, Asian Development Bank

For more information or support please contact the CDDE Secretariat:

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