Helder da Costa, PhD

General Secretary

g7+ Secretariat

Asian Development Bank

Manila, 17 November 2014

Post-2015

Development Agenda:

The g7+ Perspective

Brief Introduction on the g7+

Basic Facts and the New Deal

Fragility Assessments

Post-2015 Development Agenda

F to F Cooperation

The Way Forward

Outline

g7+ Member States: 20

Chair: Sierra Leone

Secretariat: Timor-Leste

Big “G” and small ”g” branding

The g7+ : platform for conflict-

affected states internationally

• Inspired by Accra 4th HLF on Aid Effectiveness in 2008,

formalised in Dili in April 2010.

• Permanent secretariat based in Dili, Timor Leste, based on an

MoU with the Gov of TL (February 2014).

• Current Minister of Finance, Sierra Leone (May 2014 onwards)

• Supports peer-learning through g7+ F to F Cooperaiton.

• Supports collective action and advocacy though engagement

with donors and international organisations (UN, WB, IMF, ILO,

G20, INCAF/DAC, Bilateral donors, CSOs)

• Champions the implementation of the ‘New Deal for

engagement in Fragile States’, agreed in Busan 2011.

• Offers in-country support on New Deal implementation to

countries that request it (e.g. South Sudan, Guinea Bissau

Fragility Assessment, Togo, etc)

1.5 billion live in conflict-affected and fragile states

About 70% of fragile states have been in conflict since 1980

Basic Governance transformations may take 20-40 years

50% of ODA is spent in fragile and conflict-affected contexts

Many fragile states will not achieve the MDGs by 2015. These

countries are furthest away from achieving MDGs

Transitioning out of fragility is long and requires country

leadership and ownership

The Facts

AID IS

VOLATILE

An example

of what

does not

work……

FOCUS

Fragility Spectruum One vision, one plan Compacts Use PSGs to monitor progress Support political dialogue and leadership

PSG

(Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Goals)

1. Letimate Politics

2. Security

3. Justice

4. Economic Foundation

5. Revenues & Services

New Deal: 3 inseparable components (PSG, FOCUS, TRUST)

(change of behaviour) of both the Gov and DPs

TRUST

• Transparency

• Risk-sharing

• Use and strengthen country systems

• Strengthen capacities

• Timely and predictable Aid

• Launched in Busan on 1 December 2011

• The Accra Agenda for Actipn (AAA, para 21) called for the

establishment of International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and

Statebuilding;

• The International Dialogue is the first forum which brings together:

• g7+

• Development Partners (DAC / INCAF)

• Civil Society

• The New Deal Supporters.... (over 45 countries and international

organisations, including ADB).

Partnership: 7 Pilot Countries and their partners

The New Deal is supported by over 40+ countries/Agencies

Timor-Leste Australia

Afghanistan

Central African Republic EU

Democratic Republic of Congo Belgium

Liberia USA, Sweden

South Sudan UK

Sierra Leone DFID

UK, Netherland

Progress of implementation

of the New Deal

• Somalia: Launched of the New Deal by the leadership of the country in

March 2013

• Chad: The National development plan for 2013/14 has been aligned to

the New Deal

• South Sudan: Formally launched the New Deal in August 2012 and has

conducted a consultative fragility assessment and is preparing to

develop a compact with local donors

• Afghanistan: The New Deal informed the recent Aid Management

Policy and Mutual Accountability Framework which is the compact

between the government and the donors.

• DRC: Fragility assessment conducted.

• Timor-Leste: Fragility assessment completed and validated by the

Council of Ministers.

• Sierra Leone: Fragility assessment completed

• Liberia: Fragility assessment completed

Policy Advocacy at Global Level

g7+ Ministers meeting with WB

President, Dr. Kim

UN Transition: Lessons Learned from TL

Special Session on EITI in DC g7+ Ministers meeting with IMF MD,

Christine Lagarde

g7+ Impact : National/Global Levels

National (Timor-Leste)

• Strong leadership and

commitment (PR, NP, PM,

and CSO)

• Official Speeches of PR,

PM, MNEC and Minister of

Finance) : reference to

g7+ in the international

arena.

• Financial support from

the NP 2011-2014

• TL hosts the g7+

Secretariat

Global

• g7+ UNGA Side Event every

year in New York

• “Steering Committee” Global

Partnership for Effective

Development Cooperation

• World Bank/IMF meetings

• IDA 17 – replenishment

(Observer)

• g7+ linkage with G-20

• HLP Panel on post-2015

• Advocacy in Policy changes

• g7+ is recognised as a

collective force.

• 7 pilot countries have self-nominated themselves to pilot

the new deal until 2015

• Timor-Leste is among the five countries undertaken fragility

assessments (Sierra Leone, Timor Leste, DRC, South Sudan,

Liberia)

Fragility Assessments

The

assessment

asks four

key

questions:

1. Where are we now?

3. How do we get there?

4. How do we measure progress?

2. Where do we want to get to?

The Assessment

One Vision

One Plan

Indicators

Overview

PSG Objectives

Phase 1:

Crisis

Phase 2:

Build & Reform

Phase 3:

Transition

Phase 4:

Transformation

Phase 5:

Resilience

Inclusive Politics • South Sudan

• Union of

Comoros

•Sierra Leone

•Timor-Leste

Security • Sierra Leone

• Timor-Leste

•Timor-Leste

Justice • Sierra Leone

• Timor-Leste

• Union of

Comoros

Economic

Foundations

•Union of

Comoros

• Timor-Leste

• South Sudan

• Sierra Leone

Revenues &

Services

• South Sudan

• Union of

Comoros

•Sierra Leone

• Timor-Leste

Stages of Fragility

High Level Panel (HLP) of

Emminent Persons on Post-2015

High Level Panel (26 Eminent Persons) appointed by

UNSG Ban Ki-moon

Co‐chairs: Indonesian Former President SBY, Liberian

President EJS and United Kingdom Prime Minister DC.

Millenium Development Goals (MDG)

• As the necessary foundations for development, the PSGs also form the basis of g7+ proposals for the post-2015 agenda.

• The g7+ have been actively engaged in the discussion on the post 2015 development agenda:

– Chair of the g7+, Minister Pires, was a member of the Secretary General’s High Level Panel.

– As a panel member, Minister Pires undertook consultations on the post-2015 agenda in Timor-Leste, the Asia Pacific and g7+ countries.

– In addition the g7+ held the Dili Conference in February 2013 with the Pacific Islands Forum and UNESCAP to discuss development priorities in our region, and for fragile states.

– These consultations reveal the centrality of the PSGs to inclusive development that ensures ‘no one is left behind’.

The post-2015 Development Agenda

The 2013 High Level Panel

Report

On 30 May 2013 the HLP

handed in the HLP Report

on Post-2015 Development

Agenda to the SG

In July 2012 a High-level Panel of 26 Eminent Persons

was convened by UN SG Ban Ki-Moon to shape

recommendations for the post-2015 Development

Agenda.

Co‐chairs: Indonesian President SBY, Liberian President

EJS and United Kingdom Prime Minister DC.

International Conference on Post-2015 Development Agenda

Dili, February 2013

‘Development for All, End of Conflict and Peacebuildiong and Statebuilding

Dili Consensus

The High Level Panel calls for five big transformational shifts:

• Leave No One Behind.

• Put Sustainable Development at the Core.

• Transform Economies for Jobs and Inclusive Growth.

• Build Peace and Effective, Open and Accountable Institutions for All.

• Forge a New Global Partnership.

Five Transformational Shifts

• No g7+ countries achieve any single MDG Target at the global level

• Over the past 15 years, g7+ countries were busy “fighting fires”

• There can be no development without peace, or there can be no peace without

development

• The Open Working Group (OWG) has submitted its report to UNSG for

deliberations.

• 17 Goals, 169 Targets

• Goal # 16 : “ Promote peaceful and inclusive societies … and build effective ,

accountable institutional at all levels”.

• g7+ is pushing to secure this Goal in future deliberations by September 2015.

g7+ Perspective on Post-2015 Framework

High Level Side Event on Post-2015 New York, 22 September 2014

Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, at the UNGA

New York, 25 September 2014

Implementation of New Deal

(2012 - 2015)

Policy Advocacy on Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP, Side

Events, OWG) (2013 - 2015)

SDG Deliberation in the UNGA (1 Member, 1 Vote)

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Post-2015 Development Agenda /SDG”?

How many Goals ?

F to F Cooperation 3 Main Pillars

Supporting Implementation of

New Deal

Peer-Learning,

Knowledge Sharing

Supporting Member

States in dealing with

acute and emerging

crisis

F2F

F to F Cooperation (Some Concrete Examples)

Cooperation in 3 broad areas:

Public Financial Management (Somalia)

Natural Resources Management (South Sudan)

Peace and Reconciliation (Guiné-Bissau, Central African

Republic)

F to F Cooperation – Visit of PM of Timor-

Leste to Guinea-Bissau 5-8 October 2013

• Technical Assistance on Electoral

Registration

• Successful March and June 2014

Elections

• New Constitutional Government in

place

F2F – South Sudan and Timor-Leste (2-5 Dec 2014)

• Institutionalising the g7+ (g7+ Charter to be ratified by member

countries)

• Rolling out at the National level

• Expanding the secretariat to respond to the needs and demands

– New York Liaison Officer

– Kinshasa Liaison Officer (Francophone)

Strengthening the g7+

• Post-2015 Development Agenda

– Road show

• Formalize the structure and membership of g7+

– Endorsement of the g7+charter

– Governance framework will be agreed during the Ministerial meeting

• Aid effectiveness (Engagement with the WB and IMF through

Ministerial discussion)

• Focus on non aid resources-research on Natural resources

management and Private sector

• Support the member countries on the ND implementation

Priorities for 2014 and 2015

• Unexpected shocks and uncertainties in member countries

• Poverty is expected to concentrate in FCS

– Shrinking resources

• Competing priorities for post 2015 (on going negotiation within

OWG).

• Small group, but increasing demands

• Mixed degree of Political buy-in across the member countries

Challenges

• South-South and “Fragile-Fragile” Cooperation and peer

learning with non-g7+ countries

– PM of Timor-Leste’s visit to Fiji (support to PIDF)

– Exchange of Information (climates change, natural resource

management and PFM)

• Networking and outreach to G20

• Ratification of the g7+ CHARTER at the Council of Ministers

Opportunities

Thank you www.g7plus.org