CDDE Steering Committee

The CDDE Facility is governed by a Steering Committee made up of partner country governments, parliamentarians, civil society organisations and donor agencies. The Steering Committee provides strategic direction and ensures that the CDDE Facility is accountable for achieving its results. It reviews and endorses CDDE Work Plan, appraises project proposals, and reviews progress of CDDE activities. The members of the steering committee actively promote country, regional and global partnerships to support the achievement of CDDE results.

The roles and responsibilities of the steering committee are laid out in the Steering Committee and CoP Terms of Reference.

Current members

The CDDE Steering Committee is made up of government, civil society, parliament, and donor agencies representatives from the Asia-Pacific. Its members are active members and members and champions of the CDDE Community of Practice. The following members of the Asia-Pacific Community of Practice currently serve as CDDE Steering Committee members:

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

Indu Bhushan, Co-Chair, Director, Strategy & Policy Department, ADB

Abdillah Toha, Member of Parliament, Indonesia

Donatus Marut, INFID Indonesia and Reality of Aid Asia, Indonesia

Mosharraf Bhuiyan, Green Movement of Sri Lanka and Reality of Aid Asia, Sri Lanka

Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy, Director General, Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring, Ministry of Plan Implementation, Sri Lanka

Noumea Simi, Ministry of Finance, Samoa

Takako Ito, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Steering Committee Documents

Below are core CDDE documents used by the Steering Committee to monitor the CDDE Facility progress towards its stated objectives, along with minutes from all previous Steering Committee meetings. 

- CDDE 2009 Work Plan

- Monitoring CDDE Progress and Results at Country Level

- Steering Committee Minutes (Interim) - 13 March 2009

- First Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - 7 May 2009

- Second Steering Committee Meeting Minutes - 16 November 2009

- CDDE interim progress report

- CDDE Six-month Progress Report