Transcript Localizing the Millennium Development Goals

LOCALIZING THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The Role of the Development
Finance Institutions
Presented by :
Mr. Landiwe Mahlangu
Development Bank of SA
Manager: Operations
Evaluation
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The MDG and it’s Aftermath
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MDG represent a landmark global consensus on
development
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MDG 8 Goals, 18 Targets and 48 Indicators
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Monterrey Consensus : The 0.7% Agreement
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Johannesburg Environmental Summit
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The Nature of the Challenge
“ A race against time”
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Countries in developing countries will not
be able to achieve most of the goals of
MDG
Most African countries will not meet all of
the goals, particularly Poverty Targets
25 000+ people die of hunger daily and
2000 women die at giving birth, 115m
children are out of school
Only five rich countries have met 0.7 %
target of ODA
Development largely unsustainable
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The Nature of the Challenge
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Estimated costs to meet MDG’s by 2015 at
USD$189b; only USD$53 is available; MDG
Gap USD$135m
SSA will have to register growth rate of 78% per annum in the next 10 years
Investment in infrastructure to double as
%GDP to about 9% of GDP
The conflicts must stop
The weather and climate must behave and
God should be kind
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The Constraint of the Mandate of
DFI’s
DFI exist to serve specific development
goals and purpose
 Tension between financial and socio economic objectives
 Operations limited to areas of market
failure
 Small player in regional and national
economies
 Mandate and Resource mismatch
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The DBSA Approach
 Embracing
Consensus
the Global Dialogue and
Promote dialogue and partnerships
with IFI and other Multi – lateral
Institutions
 Intermediate and serve as conduit of
finance flows
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The DBSA Approach cont.
 Aligning
Agenda
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to the National Development
Anchoring Operations on Key National
Development Initiatives
National Government Programme of
Action
Expanded Public Works Programme
Integrated
Sustainable
Development
Programme
and
Urban
Renewal
Programme
Recently ASGISA
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The DBSA Approach cont.
 Stretching the Mandate Envelope
 Advisor Role -Sharing best practices
 Financer
-Innovative products
 Partner
-Reducing transaction costs
 Implementor -“Warm bodies” Deployment :
Siyenza Manje
 Integrator
-Sustainable Communities, Local
Investment Agencies
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The DBSA Approach cont.
 Embedding
operations
MDG targets indicators in
Quality at entry : 10 Key Indicator
Framework
 Moving from outputs to outcome
 Intensify monitoring
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The DBSA Approach cont.
 Mainstream
Knowledge
Research
 Capacity Development and Building
 Learning from Operations
 Sharing knowledge widely
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Challenges
 Institutional
Infrastructure
 Short Termism
 Quality of Achievements and
Outcomes
 Corruption
 Evaluability and monitorability of
MDG
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Conclusion and recommendation
Intensify the building of Evaluation Capacity
Align to Government-Wide M & E Framework
Adapt and simplify evaluation tools and
methodology
 Interrogate continuous appropriateness of
MDG’s targets
 Harmonise and Integrate
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Thank you!
“ When all is said and done, often more is
said than done”
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