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Country Assistance Plans - East Timor

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V. Donor Activities and Aid Coordination

42. In adopting a joint approach to reconstruction planning, aid agencies have recognized the importance of appropriate coordination and sequencing of support in East Timor, to maximize effective impact and to ensure that short-term assistance takes place within a sustainable framework of long-term recovery and development. The JAM, for example, was undertaken as a multi-donor effort, including technical experts provided by various government and international agencies, including ADB. Its report on reconstruction priorities, was endorsed by the donors conference in Tokyo on 17 December 1999. It also provided an integrated framework for the planning and sequencing of medium-term assistance in East Timor, taking into account emergency humanitarian support and plans for the recurrent operations of UNTAET. ADB is participating fully in both the coordination and planning of assistance to East Timor during the transition period, including as an implementing agency for TFET, as well as through its own TA program.

43. In light of absorptive capacity constraints in East Timor, and the expected volume of aid funding likely to be made available for reconstruction and development activities during the transition period, effective ongoing aid coordination, both bilateral and multilateral, will be critical to ensuring an effective operational program. UNTAET has established a capacity for aid coordination. Further, within the framework of TFET, governance and coordination structures have been established to ensure effective planning and coordination of assistance. This includes a Donor Council, which meets every six months to review progress and consider emerging priorities in each sector of TFET responsibility; and a field-based committee of TFET donors that meets monthly with UNTAET and East Timorese stakeholders.

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