Transcript The Case for Indicators of Context, Trade Mainstreaming and

The Case for Indicators of Context,
Trade Mainstreaming
and Donors’ response
Symposium on Monitoring and Evaluation:
Identifying Indicators for Monitoring Aid for Trade
Geneva, 15-16 September 2008
David Luke
Senior Adviser and Coordinator,
Trade and Human Development Unit
UNDP Geneva Office
Outline
• Guidelines for identifying indicators
• Case for context indicators
• Case for mainstreaming indicators and
donors’ response
• Regional applications
Guidelines for Identifying
AfT Indicators
• Provide factual information about implementation and progress
• Not try to point to possible causation between different variables
• Universal coverage or as near universal coverage as possible with
consensus on validity
• Story emerging should be recognizable and conducive to a
constructive dialogue focused on where further improvements are
required.
Guidelines for Identifying
AfT Indicators
• The final product should not aim at researchers and analysts, or
becoming a diagnostic or evaluation tool for programming.
• It should not aim to be comprehensive.
• The indicators should remain a political tool for assessing overall
trends and progress.
• Presentation should be based as much as possible on
benchmarking and cross-country comparisons.
• Final product is easily readable, non-judgmental and accessible.
Indicators of context
Human Development Indexes
Initial or prevailing economic conditions:
Sectoral Composition of GDP
Human Development Index
Agriculture value added as % of GDP
Human Poverty Index for Developing Countries
Industry value added as % of GDP
Gender-related Development Index
Services value added as % of GDP
Indicators of Mainstreaming and Donors’ response
Indicators of Mainstreaming
Indicators of Donors’ response
Existence of an identifiable section relating to trade in
the national development strategy/PRSP
The volume of Aid for Trade resources that are
transferred through common implementation
arrangements
Explicit discussion of trade policy options in relation
to poverty reduction in the national development
strategy/PRSP
The volume of Aid for Trade resources that are
transferred through programme-based approaches
(i.e. integrated into Sector Wide Approaches
(SWAps), basket funding or pooling of technical
assistance or similar approaches, excluding
budget support)
Extent to which joint field missions are undertaken
Extent to which analytical work, including joint
diagnostic studies are utilized
Context Indicators
• Readily available
• Contextualize other indicators
• Benchmark progress to acheiving
internationally-agreed goals
Mainstreaming and
donors’ response indicators
• Task Force definition of AFT
• Mainstreaming reflects political commitment to
integrate trade in development strategies
– Identification of clear priorities as basis for
engaging partners
• Donors’ response to partner countries’ efforts on
mainstreaming equally important and central to
Paris Declaration principles
• AfT should be seen within the larger context of
the WTO coherence mandate
Regional applications
• Context, mainstreaming, and donor response
indicators also apply regionally
• Examples
Thank you
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