Managing for Development Results at ADB

Results Matter September 2008

CoP-MfDR members in OECD-DAC Joint Venture Meetings
By Bruce Purdue, Head, Results Management Unit

This poster by the Asia-Pacific CoP-MfDR was presented at the Marketplace of Ideas during the Third High Level Forum. Larger view

ADB was instrumental in having key representatives from Asia Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (CoP-MfDR) join the MfDR Joint Venture (JV) meetings held in the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. This prompted the companion MfDR communities that have emerged in Africa and Latin America to join a federation of such CoPs to deliver messages to the JV, particularly in the lead up to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-3). This platform for the voice of partner countries is highly appreciated among all development partners: ADB’s CoP-MfDR is still seen as the most innovative approach to MfDR capacity building in the world, and obviously admired by the developing member countries and development partners alike.Through ADB’s support, the Asia CoP-MfDR spoke for all the communities when it delivered the following key messages to the JV on 18 June that will need to be considered at the HLF-3:

• Success in MfDR requires, in essence, an act of political will and this depends squarely on sound and effective leadership

• Development partners should support country capacity development in all its forms (planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and statistical capacity building (“SCB”)

• Institutionalization of MfDR will hinge on alignment with country systems, particularly the use of country M&E systems and, in this regard, joint evaluations must be encouraged more.

• The establishment of a results culture can only be realized through appropriate incentives—both in developing countries and development partners.

• Development partners must support the peer-to-peer learning, such as the CoPs, much more: it is interesting to note that while the primogenitor CoP-MfDR has started to struggle with diminishing funding (our RETA is winding down), the African CoP is being increasingly supported financially by the African Development Bank, United States Agency for International Development, Canadian International Development Agency, International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OECD and the World Bank; while the Latin America CoP is being supported by the Inter-American Development Bank out of its special program funding (“ProDev”).

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