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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