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Nairobi, 28 November - 1st December 2016
MINEPAT – ADIN Side Event on “INNOVATIVE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION FOR A
SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GPEDC AND THE 2030 AGENDA”
REPORT
December 2016
REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN / REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Paix – Travail –Patrie / Peace – Work – Fatherland
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MINISTERE DE L’ECONOMIE, DE LA PLANIFICATION ET DE L’AMENAGEMENT DU TERRITOIRE
Nairobi 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the GPEDC
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT After the completion of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC)’s second monitoring round which involved around 80 countries, including Cameroon that volunteered throughout the World, the second High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the GPEDC in Nairobi from 28 November - 1st December 2016 provided another opportunity to assess achievements with regard to the Busan agreement on development effectiveness. This happened whilst the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development got to its first year of implementation. With the Busan principles in perspective1, many African countries have engaged in a process of Sustainable Development (SDGs) localization, looking forward to achieving the African Development Goals ascribed in the African Union Agenda 2063. This is envisioned to hence be done relying on Africa’s strengths and key transformation options, including industrialisation and continental integration. For that purpose, South-South cooperation, particularly intra-African cooperation is seen to be essential in enhancing the GPEDC’s status, as means of implementation and assessment of the overall global development agenda. In the same vein, some of the commitments taken in Busan are slow in implementation. Genuine inclusive partnerships are lacking or underdeveloped, posing the necessity to trigger a structured and institutionalized dialogue between governments, CSOs and other non-state actors. While it is about time the GPEDC’s mandate is readjusted to feet African purpose, at the moment when the Continent hosts the HLM2 on its soil in Nairobi, the next phase of development co-operation is expected to bring a dramatic change in Africa, with regard to how international development finance supports development efforts. Innovation in multi-stakeholder collaboration is certainly an important ingredient for these changes. That justified a side event at the HLM2, amongst 57 others and workshops selected for circumstance, attended by around 50 participants from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SIDE EVENT The side event that took place in the Aberdares Conference Room of the Kenyata International Conference Center (KICC), from 07:30am-08:30am on 1rst December 2016, was co-organized by the Government of Cameroon and the CSO African Working Group (AWG), represented by Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN), on the theme: “Innovative multi-stakeholder collaboration for a successful implementation of the GPEDC and the 2030 Agenda”. It explored the opportunities offered by multi-stakeholders collaboration in the sense of stock taking on a number of initiatives conducted in Cameroon that could be replicated in other African countries, as well as on the work of African civil society in support of their governments’ implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development,
1 Country ownership; Results focus; Inclusive partnerships; and Transparency and Accountability
capitalizing on the Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), in line with the AU Agenda 2063. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Moving forward from the MDGs experience and the unfinished Busan Core Business, the side event was scheduled to discuss how effective development cooperation can deliver on the 2030 Agenda, with an acknowledged sound and effective contribution of the private sector and CSOs’ to sustainable development. It also suggested key paths to follow in that context in order to move faster from Global Goals to Action, in a view to unleashing the power of partnerships, based on effective multi-stakeholders collaboration beside south-south cooperation. It ultimately and specifically aimed at:
- (1) Experience sharing on how to fast-track the implementation of the 2030 agenda through innovative multi-stakeholders collaboration;
- (2) Sketching initial lines for the development of a generic multi-stakeholders collaboration model for Africa, drawing from Cameroonian experience, informed by regional perspectives provided by the RECs, to inspire other developing countries.
PANELLISTS AND RESPONDENTS The following panellists and respondents spoke on the occasion: the Cameroon Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Economy Planning and Regional Development, represented by Mr Njie Thomas Kinge, Director of North South and Multilateral Cooperation and Cameroon GPEDC National Coordinator; Mr Claude Bekombo, from the Cameroon Ministry of External Relations; H.E Godefroy Mokamanede, Former Minister in Central African Republic; Mr Aurelien Atidegla, Co-Chair, CPDE-Africa (from Benin); Mrs Christine Andela, Coordinator, CPDE-Central Africa (from Cameroon); Mrs Salina Sanou (from Kenya), Member of the CSO African Working Group (AWG). The session was moderated by Mr Martin Tsounkeu, the Cameroon CPDE Focal Point, General Representative of Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN), and member of the AWG. A number of participants intervened from the floor, including: JAY Hung, Executive Director, Tawan AID; Yvette Herrera, Planning officer, Department of Finance, Philippines; Ngalim Eugene Nuyudine, Cameroon Youth and Students Forum (CAMYOSFOP), Cameroon; Ouattara Diakalia, Secretary General, FNDP, Cote d’Ivoire; Chamchou, Director of Bilateral Cooperation, Ministry of Planning, Central African Republic; Lijatou-Oyemade Tokimbo, President, Kins of Africa (KINSAF), Nigeria; Baba Ngom, Administratorm CMCR, Senegal.
KEY ISSUES DISCUSSED Building from the keynote introduction by the Moderator on the global Financing for Development (FfD) process, the Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), and the implementation process of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, the speakers in their presentations touched on the following key issues: institutionalized dialogue between governments and non-state actors in general and CSOs in particular; professionalization of CSOs; linking African CSOs in a view to supporting their governments and the African Union; Youth inclusion; information sharing for effective development cooperation; and public funding of African CSOs. The representative of the Cameroonian Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Economy Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) opened the say with a welcome address, presenting Cameroon’s experience in the GPEDC and tradition of close collaboration with development partners, within a Multi-Partners Committee, to regularly assess the implementation of development cooperation, stressing that the related platform is progressively being opened to CSOs and to the private sector. He described the 2nd Round Monitoring of the GPEDC (2015-2016) as a unique opportunity for inclusive multi-stakeholders collaboration in Cameroon, under the leadership of the Government. The results of that assessment showed “evidence of the need for a tighter management of relationships with development partners by the government in order to increase aid transparency, as well as for reinforcement of auditing systems and financial reporting mechanisms”2. In his view, the major limit of that GPEDC monitoring process was the fact that national coordinators were not seriously consulted on the design of the related methodology, prior to data collection. Never-the-less the process was conducted in an innovative and collaborative format with the civil society. In fact, the government identified the same Focal Point as the global CSO Platform for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), for the civil society in Cameroon. Underlining the positive progress in the collaboration between the government of Cameroon and non-state actors, despite some challenges, the Cameroon GPEDC National Coordinator recalled the key messages from the GPEDC monitoring process in Cameroon:
- Cooperation development indicators should be revised in order to be adapted not only to the SDGs but also to take into account all Non DAC involvement and south-south cooperation flows (China, India, etc.);
- There is a need to enhance data collection capacity and to support a permanent monitoring mechanism both at national and regional levels;
2 See http://effectivecooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Cameroon_17_11.pdf?s
- Partners are encouraged to use national systems and to simplify their procedures in order to increase the disbursement rate of external resources;
- Partners should help the government to track all types of external resources including financial and technical supports to CSOs and local governments;
- Development partners are encouraged to meet their 0.7% GNP pledge and to improve the predictability of their development cooperation assistance.
The representative of the Cameroonian Ministry of External Relations (MINREX) presented on their work with the civil society in Cameroon, under a specific Department in charge of relations with non-state actors. To facilitate that work, a specific working and collaboration platform between the MINREX and CSOs has been set up, as a tool for an institutionalized dialogue, to contribute to the national Common Working and Collaboration Platform (CWCP) for the SDGs. He underlined the opportunity that the Nairobi HLM2 provided to African countries to push South-South Cooperation forward, and more specifically as concerns bilateral relations between Cameroon and Kenya. The civil society’s voice on the panel, through the CPDE Coordinator for Central Africa and the AWG, confirmed the information provided by Cameroonian government officials on the collaboration between their government and the civil society, acknowledging the support of the Commonwealth Foundation through the AWG in facilitation an institutionalized multi-stakeholder dialogue, but insisted however on the challenges that still stand on the way of an enabling environment for CSOs, including access to information and to public funds. Despite real progress in the collaboration between the government and non-state actors in Cameroon, more effort is needed to ensure full participation of citizens through CSOs and parliamentarians in development decision making. The former Minister from the Central African Republic (CAR) presented the difficult situation that the country went through and underlined the role of the civil society in avoiding the worsening of the three year politico-military crisis, wrongly described by foreign media as a religious conflict, and bringing back peace. In fact, during those hardships, civil society leaders rose to speak with one voice to the local protagonists and to the international community. He reviewed the GPEDC path from Accra where CSOs where recognized as full stakeholders in the process, thru Busan where it was enacted and Mexico where it was confirmed and validated to Nairobi now where it should be translated into multi-stakeholder collaborative and concrete actions. Calling for a true partnership at the local, national and regional levels he stressed that the side event jointly organized by the government of Cameroon and the civil society is a positive step in that direction. Central African Republic is among Fragile States and the GPEDC monitoring experience here was also that of a strong involvement of the civil society, both in terms of data collection and country report drafting. The same is true for the Bangui Dialogue and Reconciliation Forum, where CSOs were actively involved in grass-roots consultations, participation in the forum and popularization of the
recommendations. CSOs actually have an important role to play in development and the challenges to implement the SDGs and the AU Agenda 2063 should be collectively taken by both the African CSOs and their governments.
For that purpose, the following is needed from both sides: a better structuring of CSOs for better accountability; the professionalization of CSOs by strengthening their capacities to make them more relevant to their actions; a better understanding of the boundaries between CSOs and political parties; the institutionalization of a dialogue framework between the Government and CSOs; Involvement of CSOs in the designing and implementation of development plans or programs, as well as their monitoring and evaluation; CSO financing on public funds in a transparent process in compliance with the Istanbul principles for CSO Development Effectiveness3. Participants were invited to react to the panelists’ presentations with remarks and recommendations on the way forward with regard to collaboration between African Governments and non-State actors. They insisted on the need to ensure that the youth are always part of the game in development processes, not just for publicity, but rather for real through formalized schemes. They also deplored the traditional tendency to invite CSOs only at the last minute for coloration sake and suggested that a common space should be created for close, candid and constant collaboration between African Governments, African CSOs, the private sector, Development Partners and Parliamentarians on development cooperation and SDGs Implementation, in line with the AU Agenda 2063. CONCLUSION AND KEY RECOMMANDATIONS The jointly organized side event to the GPEDC HLM2 in Nairobi, by the Government of Cameroon and the Civil Society, was special and has marked the African history of collaboration between governments and non-state actors. It happened at a key moment when Africa is looking ahead for its structural, economic and cultural transformation, through Agenda 2063 to get rid of protracted poverty and insure better livelihood for all Africans. It opens the way for a new paradigm with regard to the relationships between governments and their citizens represented by CSOs. Success on that path will depend on a serious implementation of a number of recommendations that translate the outcome of the meeting. R1: African countries are encouraged to take the same path as Cameroon and concretely engage in the improvement of collaboration space with non-state actors in all sectors, particularly to ensure an enabling environment for CSOs and private
3 A set of 8 mutually shared values guiding the development work of CSOs worldwide: (1) Human Rights and Social
Justice; (2) Gender equality and equity; (3) Democratic ownership and participation; (4) Environmental Sustainability; (5) Transparency and Accountability; (6) Equitable partnerships and solidarity; (7) Mutual learning; (8) Positive sustainable change
sector to contribute to sustainable development in general and effective development cooperation in particular. R2: CSOs should professionalize, through assistance from their governments to build their operational and managerial capacities and through their own internal investment in implementing the Istanbul principles and more accountability to the people that they represent. R3: African countries should take institutional measures to ensure that CSOs access public funding and information for their work as full stakeholders in the development process. R4: African CSOs should link up and organize to borrow from experiences in other countries to build and share knowledge in support to their governments, the African Union and its various Regional Economic Communities (RECs) for the implementation of Agenda 2063 and the SDGs, through their respective national development strategy. R5: All the positive initiatives taken by the Government of Cameroon with regard to collaboration with non-state actors should be enhanced, scaled up and emulated by other African countries to ensure a permanent institutionalized dialogue in all sectors at national, regional and continental level. R6: Concrete actions should be taken at national level to involve the Youth at all levels of the development process, to make sure that they are not left behind. R7: Common space should be created for institutionalized dialogue between governments, non-state actors and development partners, at national level to regularly address key issues on effective development cooperation.
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Nairobi (Kenya), 1st December, 2016 The Rapporteurs: Emmanuel Lao
Senior Statistician and Economist North South Cooperation and Regional Development Department Ministry Of Economy, Planning and Regional development HLM2 Delegation Coordinator, Cameroon
Charles Linjap Development Analyst Investment-Watch (Cameroon)
The Moderator: Martin Tsounkeu
Financing for Development Expert, Cameroon CPDE Focal Point, General Representative, Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN)
The Chair: Njie Thomas Kinge
Director of North-South and Multilateral Cooperation and GPEDC National Coordinator, Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development
ANNEX
ANNEX 1
AGENDA Date: 1st December 2016
07:15 – 07:30am Registration of Participants 07:30 – 07:05am OPENING SESSION Welcome and introduction – (Moderator) Opening Remarks – H.E Yaouba Abdouyaye; Cameroon Minister Delegate Economy
Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) (5mn) 07:05 – 07:54am PANEL DISCUSSION Kick-off remarks on the theme - Mr Njie Thomas Kinge, Cameroon GPEDC National Coordinator (5mn)
- Mr Claude Bekombo, Cameroon Ministry of External Relations (5mn) - H.E Godefroy Mokamanede, Former Minister, Central African Republic (5mn) - CSO African Working Group (Masiiwa Rusare / Paul Okumu) (5mn) - Commonwealth Foundation (TBC) (5mn)
Reactions from Respondents - Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union (3mn)
- Christine Andela, Coordinator, CPDE-Central Africa (3mn) - Aurelien Atidegla, CPDE-Africa (3mn)
07:54 - 0 Questions and remarks from the floor (15mn) CONCLUSION Technical conclusion by Moderator and Panellist (5mn) Closing Word by the Cameroonian Minister Delegate MINEPAT (1mn)
Theme: “Innovative multi-stakeholder collaboration for a successful implementation of the GPEDC and the 2030 Agenda”
ATTENDANCE LIST / LISTE DE PRESENCE # NAMES / NOMS ORGANISATION POSITION / FONCTION COUNTRY TELEPHONE Email
1 S. Sharat Bahrain Transparency Chair Bahrain sharatii@g;ail.com
2 Jay Hung Taiwan Transparency Executive Director Taiwan [email protected]
3 Jane Waithina Maendeoya Chair Kenya +254721134796
4 Susan Ndula Women R Member Kenya +254713140194
5 Asha Abo Manamed Women R Member Kenya
6 Kalekye Muathe Women R Member Kenya +254725312992
7 Albenta Okongo Women R Member Kenya +254721598433 mlly@benta,org
8 Blanche Simony Abegue OSCAF - Gabon Chair Gabon +24107484715 [email protected]
9 Moutegoto Adeline GARED Programme Assistant Togo +22890279975 [email protected]
10 Yvette Herrera Philippine Department of Finance Planning Officer Philippines +63225239911 [email protected]
11 Alarou Souley RODADDHD Counselor Niger +22796972543 [email protected]
12 Josephine Muthioza MYWO Member Kenya +254728593878 [email protected]
13 Anastasia Wunny. MYWO Member Kenya +254724678238
14 Josephine Munyambu LAV Foundation Member Kenya +254723856162 [email protected]
15 Kemsa Ismael Dafate LAV Foundation Member Kenya +254711125520
16 Nasako Besingi SEFE Director Cameroon +23767513600 Nasako,[email protected]
17 Gufu Hussein Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officer Kenya +254727109404 [email protected]
18 Samal Edeke Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officer Kenya +254713117517 [email protected]
19 Georges Njoroge Africa Youth Mouvement EA REP Kenya +254723437753 [email protected]
20 Josephine Wandiku Magoeleyo yawanwok Member Kenya +254728593878 [email protected]
21 Anastasia Wainu Member Kenya +254721678238
22 Eleanor Maeresea
Independent Development Consultant Zimbabwe +263772367082 [email protected]
23 Batumwang Kenya
24 Ouattara Diakalia FNDP Secretary General Cote d’Ivoire +22507089523 [email protected]
REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN / REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Paix – Travail –Patrie / Peace – Work – Fatherland
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MINISTERE DE L’ECONOMIE, DE LA PLANIFICATION ET DE L’AMENAGEMENT DU TERRITOIRE
Nairobi 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the GPEDC SIDE EVENT
25 Chamchou Ministry of Planning Director, Bilateral Cooperation
Central African
Republic
26
Remongar Dennis
United Nations Mission of Liberia DPR Liberia +2126871053 9146485550
27
Tokumbo Lijatdu-Oyemade
Kins of Africa (KINSAF) President Nigeria +2348033116762 [email protected]
28 Bab Ngom CMCR Board Member Senegal +221775574521 [email protected]
29 Dr J. Kaseera Ministry of Finance Zimbabwe Zimbabwe +263712116044 [email protected]
30 Salina Sanou ACORD Head of Policy/Advocacy Kenya Salina.sanou@acordinternational,org
31 Sen. Kemajou Claude Cameroonian Senate Senator Cameroon +237699938980 clkemayou@yahoo,fr
32 Sen. Paul Maounde Cameroonian Senate Senator Cameroon +237696370405 [email protected]
33 Njie Thomas Kinge MINEPAT Director, North-South and Multilateral Cooperation
Cameroon +2376772236547 [email protected]
34 Emmanuel Lao MINEPAT Senior Economist Cameroon +237651303274 [email protected]
35 Christine Andela COSADER/PLANOSCAM Chair Cameroon +237699591750 [email protected]
36
Martin Tsounkeu Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN)
General Representative Cameroon +237677747828 [email protected]
37 Eugene Ngalim CAMYOSFOP Excutive Director Cameroon +237677329364 [email protected]
38 Suwun Susan CAMYOSFOP Administrative Officer Cameroon +237675858844 [email protected]
39 Humphrey Omuluti KFS Chair Kenya +254705643187 [email protected]
40 Africa Tviza SIATINI Programme Officer Uganda +256718513740 [email protected]
41 Charles Linjap CAYOSFOP Senior Strategist Cameroon +237677397870 [email protected]
42 Sen. Matute Daniel Cameroonian Senate Senator Cameroon +237677614736
43 Goefroy Mokamanede POCAED Former Minister Central African
Republic
+23675502085 [email protected]
44 Kovoungbo Herve Bienvenu
Ministry of Planning Director Central African
Republic
+23675202307
45 Bekombo Jean Claude Ministry of External Relations CS Cameroon +237699809940 [email protected]
46 Nasako Besingi SEFE Director Cameroon +237675136000 [email protected]
47 Humphrey Souereibnty Smuvuty
Chair Kenya +25470564387 humphreyowuvihi@gmmail,com
48 Francis Koyi Helcen Foundation Programme Officer Kenya +254711616193 [email protected]
49 Alois Aero Fhellen Fovollte Partner Kenya +254721501746 [email protected]
ANNEX 3
PHOTO REPORT
Participants registering before the meeting
A view of the panellists
Key note introduction by the Moderator,
Martin Tsounkeu
3 Senators from Cameroon among the Participants
Christine Andela
CPDE Coordinator for Central Africa Addressing the participants on the role of CSOS
The Moderator, Martin Tsounkeu (2nd from the left), the Chair, Thomas Njie Kinge (centre) and two panellist on his left (Christine Andela and Jean Claude Bekombo)
with a few participants after the meeting