Mutual accountability and Mutual accountability and aid transparencyaid transparency
Republic of Moldova
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Freedom of information Act and aid transparency
Institutional arrangements for aid management
Aid information by donorsNext steps
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Freedom of information Freedom of information actsacts
Law on access to the information (may 2000)Law on Transparency in the decision making
process (noiembrie 2008)
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Aid trasparencyAid trasparencyAid transparency – Paris
Declaration commitments IDEA – was developed in the 1990’s
by Planet Consultants (NL) for the European Commission
Followed by the CIS countries in the period 1999 – 2001
IDEA in Moldova from 2002.
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What is IDEA and what does What is IDEA and what does it do ?it do ?
Allows for reporting on the basis of standard reports and export of data to excel for manipulation to prepare custom reports,
Allows to move to an entire “paperless office” for the NCU,
Is first and all designed to support internal operations of the NCU and allow access to the information by anyone on the network
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IDEA was implemented to promote transparency IDEA was implemented to promote transparency
and accountability of funds, result-driven decision-and accountability of funds, result-driven decision-
making and aid effectiveness. making and aid effectiveness.
linked to linked to
www.ncu.moldova.mdwww.ncu.moldova.md
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/ Project Registration Fiche
A T T E N T I O N Please fill on both languages Romanian and English
1. Project name 2. Location (address, contacts, contact person, e-mail, web site, staff) 3. Donor's project code 4. Donor 5. Agreement on which base the project is working 6. Start date (DD/MM/YYYY 7. Duration (months) 8. End date (DD/MM/YYYY) 9. Project prolongation (months)
10. Beneficiary (name, legal address) 11. / Partner institution (Recipient) 12. Implementation institution 13. Total budget (USA dollars) 14. Amount from the total budget for current year (USA dollars) 15. Amount from the total budget for next year (USA dollars) 16. Amount from the total budget for previous year (USA dollars) (if applicable) 17. Amount executed in previous year (USA dollars) (if applicable) 18. National / Regional (if regional indicate all participated countries) 19. Sector (from OECD), Policy objectives 20. / Sub-sector (from OECD (if applicable 21. Summary of the project 22. Wider Objectiv 23. Specific Objectives (components of the project) 24. Projects activities 25. Expected Outputs 26. Type of assistance (Grant, Technical Assistance
A T T E N T I O N
Attach to this Project Registration Fiche Terms of Reference of your project, Copy of extract from the contract which contain name of implementing institution/organization, signing date,
donor's name and duration of the contract
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Institutional arrangement for Institutional arrangement for aid management aid management
the Regulation regarding the institutional framework and mechanism of co-ordination of the external assistance provided to Moldova by international organizations and donor countries approved by GD nr.12 from January 19, 2010
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Reform of aid coordination: Reform of aid coordination: new Regulationnew RegulationGovernment ownership
National Aid Coordinator and Sector coordinators
National Committee and Sector Councils
Joint Partnership Council
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New Institutional FrameworkNew Institutional Framework
Line ministries
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National Committee
for Strategic Planning
Sector Coordinators & Sector Councils
National Aid Coordinator &
National Coordination Unit
State Chancellery
Joint Partnership
Council
Donors meetings
Donor agencies/Embassies
National Coordination UnitNational Coordination Unit
Key Government focal Point for the oversight and coordination of external aid
Ensure operational and methodological programming, monitoring and evaluation of aid at national level
Record and ensure the transparency of external assistance
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Sector Coordination CouncilsSector Coordination Councils
Make recommendations on sector policy and priorities through joint analytical work, identify sector assistance priorities and project proposals
Participate in drafting sector strategies, action plans, and expenditure plans, including sector aid allocations, as well as sector monitoring and evaluation framework
Monitor and evaluate sector policy implementation, as well as efficiency, effectiveness and impact of aid delivered
Approve sector monitoring reports and provide inputs to NDS/EU-Moldova progress reports
Chair: Minister (Sector Aid Coordinator) Membership: Representative of each active Development
Partner, Heads of relevant Ministerial Departments, NCU staff, NGOs as relevant, private sector as relevant
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Joint Partnership CouncilJoint Partnership Council
High-level forum for dialogue on aid coordination, ensuring impact on achieving national priorities, monitoring NDS implementation
Align partners’ interventions with Government of Moldova sector plans to ensure that planning, budgeting and programme implementation are aligned and reinforce each other
Review progress made in the fulfillment of commitments in the Partnership Principles
Co-Chairs: Prime Minister and a Development Partner (rotating)
Members: NDS Inter-Ministerial Committee, Ambassadors/Heads of Development Partner Agencies, private sector, NGOs
Government resolution from April 8th, 2011 approved the framework for the Council.
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Achivements Achivements
Behavioural changes:by government – better coordinated
policies with MTEF, absorption capacity of ODA increased
by providers – better alignment on the national priorities, more orientation for growing the capacities within the institutions
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ODA Disbursed ODA Disbursed (in million USD)(in million USD)
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Technical cooperation (in milTechnical cooperation (in mil.. USD)USD)
86
97
91
22
28
64
0 50 100 150
2005
2007
2010 Cooperarea tehnica coordonata Cooperarea tehnică
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ODA in ContextODA in Context
GDP: USD 5.8 bln (2010)/ ODA 7.7% Government expenditure : USD 2.4 bln (2010)/ 18.9 % ODA Government revenue: USD 2.2 bln (2010)/ 20% ODA
0 500 1000 1500
AOD (2010)
Remitente (2010)
ISD (2010)
448
1072,24
198,9
Mill USD
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ChallengesChallenges
• Time consuming gathering data from donor or line ministries.
• Manual introduction of data from the spreadsheet into the IDEA.
• Reporting and graphs – on export data to excel
• M&E tools limitation.• Quality of information • Mutual accountability across stakeholders –
local government agencies, Parliament , civil society organization
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Next stepsNext steps
Develop further database – tools for better planning and M&E
E-government agendaIATI coverage for Moldova
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