Paris, 6-7 February 2012

Workshop on Lessons Learned from the conduct of the Evaluation of the Paris

Declaration

PARTNER COUNTRY PERSPECTIVECase: BOLIVIA

Jaime A. Garron BozoChief, Financing Negotiations

Ministry of Development Planning - Bolivia

CONSENSUS BUILDING – DONOR COMMUNITY

• In December 2006, the donor community in Bolivia established the Develpment Partner´s Group (GRuS), in order to promote the principles of ownership and alignment. (16 bilaterals, 6 multilaterlas + 1 intergovernmental).

• With in GRuS, it was created an ad hoc group in order to follow the Paris Declaration Evaluation.

Millennium Development

Goals

Monterrey Consensus

High Level Forum in Rome

Marrakesh Roundtable

Paris Declaration

1st PD Survey

Accra Agenda for Action

2nd PD Evaluation

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1st PD Evaluation

2nd PD Survey

Regional Forum on Alignment and

Harmonization for LA and the Caribbean – Santa

Cruz

CONSENSUS BUILDING - GOVERNMENT

• The international agenda in development cooperation is full of political commitments…

• Multiple Fora + Multiple Actors = Multiple Commitments

• RELEVANCE of the Paris Declaration:

Quantitative targets Monitoring and evaluation.

• To date, +130 partner countries and development partners have adhered to the Declaration

ODA in Iberoamerican Countries (2000-2009)

Developing Countries Iberoamerican Countries

US$ Millions

WHAT WORKED WELL:EVALUATION STRUCTURE

• COMMITED DONOR FOCAL POINTS• The Dutch Embassy and the Spanish Cooperation Agency for

Development acted as an excellent conduct to coordinate the work undertaken with the donor community

• POLITICAL WILL AT THE NATIONAL COORDINATION• Ministry of Development Planning

• EXPERIMENTED NATIONAL EVALUATION TEAMS • INDEPENDENT FIRM: STRATEGY ADVISORS FOR GOVERNMENT

REFORM (SAX gr).• INDEPENDENT FIRM: SUPPLEMENTARY STUDY ON TECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE

WHAT WORKED WELL:EVALUATION STRUCTURE

• NATIONAL REFERENCE GROUP• MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING• MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS• DUTCH EMBASSY – DONOR FOCAL POINT• SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS: FEDERATION OF MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATIONS• CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES:

• 3 ROUNDS OF MEETINGS • CONSORTIUM OF NGOs – UNITAS• COMMUNITY BASED REPRESENTATIVE

• ACADEMIA: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF UNIVERSITES• COMPRISING ALL MAJOR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

PHASES OF THE EVALUATIONPHASES OF THE EVALUATION

COVERAGECOVERAGE• 13/20 Agencies participated

• 87 interviews to Civil Society, Government and Donors representatives

• 13 forms filled by cooperation agencies

• 3 focal groups

• 2 Workshops

11

33 Field WorkField Work

44 Validation and data GatheringValidation and data Gathering

55 Presentation Presentation

PreparationPreparation

22 Instruments DesignInstruments Design

METHODOLOGY

LEARNING PROCESS

• Time frame: late start of the evaluation.

• Involving stakeholders to undertake a peer review (NRG) is very challenging, based on past behavior. Should be done more often.

• Involving emerging “Non-Paris” donors in the evaluation proved to be difficult, including

major South-South providers.

• Difference in information recording (government and donors).

• Lack of conceptual agreement and mutual understanding (i.e. technical cooperation).

• Evaluation timing matched the budgetary process (difficulty to conduct in depth interviews)

• Staff mobility (institutional memory)

• Unrecorded information led to an exhaustive revision of aid agreements (tied aid, preconditions, etc.)

• Lack of substantive evidence in some cases, to make a stronger case.

ChallengesChallenges

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTINTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXT

NATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL

Millennium Development

Goals

Monterrey Consensus

High Level Forum in Rome

Marrakesh Roundtable

Paris Declaration

1st PD Survey

Accra Agenda for Action

2nd PD Evaluation

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1st PD Evaluation

2nd PD Survey

Regional Forum on Alignment and

Harmonization for LA and the Caribbean – Santa

Cruz

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

National Dialogue

National Development

Plan

Bolivian Strategy for Poverty

Reduction (EBRP)

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rk

2000

Sánchez de Lozada

Presidency

President Morales

Re-election

Eduardo RodríguezPresidency

Carlos Mesa Presidency

Evo MoralesPresidency

Constituent Assembly

Recall Referendum

Constituent Referendum

Po

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al

Co

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xt

PD AAA

National Dialogue for a Productive

Bolivia

Constitutional Reform Law

2650

Law 031 for Autonomy and

Decentralization Framework

Adjusted EBRP

Bolivia s Productivity and Solidarity

Plan

National Dialogue Law

2235

LOPELaw3351

Supreme Decree 29322 for the

Nationalization of Hydrocarbons

Supreme Decree 29308 for the regulation of

external resources

Law 041 Against Corruption and Illicit

Enrichment and Investigation of

Wealth

Supreme Decree 27329 for Government

transparency and information access

Hydrocarbons Law 3058

LEARNING PROCESS

• Independent evaluation.

• Exchange of ideas and feedback from the Core Team and the possibility of accessing the extranet of the Evaluation of the Declaration of Paris.

• Having a Reference Group involving main stakeholders facilitated dialogue, although not as frequent as expected

• South-South cooperation with the Colombian evaluation team.

• Political and operational support of the Government.

• Openness to provide information on behalf of international cooperation.

• Knowledge and expertise of the national evaluation team.

• Provided valuable inputs for developing the Action Plan to Strengthening Development Cooperation Effectiveness in Bolivia, presented in October 2011 to the Executive Branch, and Donor Community.

OpportunitiesOpportunities