Somaliland DAD: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Ahmed Mohamed DiriyeDirector of Coordination/M&E Expert

Objectives of this Presentation

1. Brief about coordination

2. Somaliland coordination and M&E systems Brief, 1991-2008

3. Current situation: Coordination system, M&E system, and DAD

4. Opportunities and challenges

5. Way Forward Expectation

1. What is Coordination• Development Coordination is sharing development

information and decision making to maximize the public resources utilization, and avoid gap and duplicity

• On one point of view, development coordination means ensuring that:

1. Development initiatives are aligned to the national priorities by utilizing agreed prioritization criteria

2. Economies of scale concept is incorporated into the plan to minimize the delivery cost

1. What is Coordination(Continue)• On another perspective, coordination is harmonization to avoid

the possibility of that:

1. Somaliland Ministry of Public Works repairing the pot holes on specific paved road on June 21, 2011; and then the Hargeisa Water Agency dig out and repaired same road for water supply installation on May 11, 2011, or

2. Resources are poured into on sector or region, while leaving another one, behind

2. Coordination, and M&E Situation, 1991-2008

• In the first place, Somaliland as state of Somalia or as a separate country, WHICH TO DECIDE OR DEBATE IS BEYOND THIS TOPIC, paralyzed the development by preventing large scale investment; unilateral and multilateral development treaties; and direct aid budget support

• Secondly, the 1887 registered LNGOs; 18 UN agencies, and 104 INGOs as well as large number of CBOs and Diaspora development contributions were implementing their projects independently

2. Coordination, and M&E Situation, 1991-2008 (Continue)

• THE BEST OF THE WOREST: Ministry of Planning set a aid data collection form in Excel format and its guideline on MS Word

• Then data processing were carried out at the Ministry to convert the data into SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) for advanced analysis.

• Although, this process was very time consuming and nerve touching work (DAD is the solution); we have produced annual aid report containing overall aid flow to Somaliland, and by donor, implementer, partner, sector, and region as well the commitment and disbursement rates .

2. Coordination, and M&E Situation, 1991-2008

• As a result, the level of coordination was as extremely low as of 4% of the Hirschman-Harfingal Index (HHI)— which is a measure of scale used to assess the level of fragmentation/coordination of aid—is equal to 0.04 for Somaliland, a fact which indirectly demonstrates that only 4% of the total aid rendered to the country is coordinated.

• In 2009; donors pledged $10 million for the Somaliland Health Sector; but $28 million was committed for that sector, At the contrary, only $0.5 of the infrastructure sector’s $32 million pledge was received

Somaliland Priority and the Current Aid

GovernanceEducation HealthWater/sanitationInfrastructureLivelihoods Private Total RDP Aid

RDP Plan $43,000, $15,900, $10,100, $3,600,0 $32,000, $18,500, $1,600,0 $124,700

Estimated $14,000, $21,700, $28,800, $7,900,0 $500,000 $22,000, $3,500,0 $98,400,

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3. Current Somaliland Coordination and M&E Systems

• As response, the Somaliland Ministry of National Planning and Development with the resources and technical assistance of donors, UN system, and Somaliland government produced:

• 1. Aid Coordination policy

• 2. M&E Policy

• 3. MIS Policy/Development Assistance Database (DAD), and

• 4. NGO law

Institutional structureCoordination Structure M&E Structure NGO Law

High Level Aid Coordination Forum (Joint, six months)

Somaliland Monitoring and Evaluation Forum

National Development and Aid Committee (Ministers)(Ministers, Quarterly)

National Development and Aid Committee

NGO Registration Committee

Intersectoral Coordination Forum (DG, Quarterly)

Technical Advisory Group led by M&E Section MNPD

LNGO ConsortiumINGO Consortium

Joint Sectoral Coordination Forums (DG/PD, Monthly)

Sectoral M&E Forums Sector based NGO umbrellas

Planning and Statistics Units of all public institutions

Institutional M&E Team (DG, PD, and M&E Person)

NGOs

Aid Coordination Section/Coordination Department/

Ministry of Planning (Weekly)-

M&E Section/Coordination Department/Ministry of Planning

NGO Registration/Coordination Department/Ministry of Planning

DAD

First Quarter Coordination operations• Step 1: MNPD prepared TOR, development mapping, aligned institutions, and

development calendar in October, 2010

• Step 2: Invited government institutions in October, 2010 for consultation

• Step 3: Invited International Organization in November, 2010 for consultation

• Step 4: Joint Sectoral Coordination Forums monthly meetings during last week of December, 2010; then January-March,2011 (Planning Directors)

• Step 5: Inter-sectoral Quarterly meeting, Second Monday of April, 11.4.2011(Director Generals of Chair, Co-chair, and secretariat)

• Step 6: National Development Coordination, Third Monday, (Cabinet level)

• Step 7: High Level Aid Coordination Forum (Twice a year)

• Step 8: Sectoral Midterm Review and Annual Development Conference

• Step 9: DAD

4. DAD Implementation Achievement

Achievements Challenges1. Contract Signed 1. Without the Somaliland consultation about

the contract terms2. DAD Somaliland established www.synisys.com/dadSomaliland

2. Ownership yet to be delivered, accessibility should be requested from UNDP, then from Synergy

3. Extensive trainings Trainings held in Yerevan, Kampala, Hargeisa, Nairobi , rather than inside

3. Somaliland government is committed

3. DAD as MNPD’s system, not national

4. Synergy and UNDP as effective technical backbone

4. Due to the visa problem of the Somali passports, other passports holding Diaspora are attending the trainings, rather government employees

5. Since, Ministry was collecting aid data from 2008, it become familiar

5. The Ministry sent around dozens of letters to its international counter parts to submitted aid through DAD, but 22 INGO submitted

5. Way Forward• 1. Somaliland is expecting that the DAD will become a solution for

the aid ownership, rather than becoming like the aid; where the Aid become like a rain, where no one has say about when, where, and how much to rain

• 2. Ministry of National Planning and Development should have an implementation schedule, and should have a say.

• 3. Trainings should be held in Somaliland, and for the Somaliland government staff to improve the sustainability

• 4. According to the Somaliland 2009 Annual Aid Report, a credit score system should be established among the partners

AID LIKE A RAIN

Dhamaad (the End)

• Su’aalo: Questions