Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future

CHApTER TWO
While a post-
2015 framework
can provide the
setting for
developing
partnerships
in support
of national
development,
it cannot
determine how
these will be used
in each case.
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• Since aid channels multiply and transaction
costs for aid-recipient countries tend to increase,
donors must facilitate and cooperate with the
most important partners on interpreting and
translating the internationally agreed principles
of aid effectiveness in relation to the specific
requirements and potential of the country
in question.
• This is the more urgent as innovative sources of
financing and funds for new global challenges
(climate change, etc.) will need to be anchored
in stronger institutional capabilities – including
strengthened accountability – in developing
countries.
more specifically for the Eu, its unique characteristics
and its access to multiple stakeholders at a
range of governance levels (from the global to the
local) and in various policy domains, mean that, in
addition to the above, it is well placed to:
• Support, facilitate and show leadership in donor
coordination and harmonisation at the country
level in collaboration with country partners.
• Help, especially in fragile environments, design
conflict-sensitive donor responses that involve
oDa combined with other areas for intervention
such as trade, targeted sanctions against
elite representatives, seizure of assets, global
and regional action against tax evasion, etc.
• Promote among external actors enhanced
knowledge management on specific country
situations, by using improved diagnostic tools,
integrating ideas and lessons learnt, and formulating
more case specific approaches to promote
aid effectiveness.
• Be a key actor at the international level in promoting
global collective action in support of
global public goods. Given the proliferation of
sources of (development) finance – but also rents
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– as well as fragmentation, two priority areas
for Eu action are likely to be in strengthening
transparency and improving global financial
governance.
above all, however, this chapter has demonstrated
the vital importance for the post-2015 framework
to be sufficiently flexible to cope with the huge
diversity of country situations and development
trajectories that it will need to contend with, if it is
to be a useful guiding tool for a range of development
partners. the case studies demonstrate that
an international framework such as the mDGs can
be useful in a variety of ways to developing country
actors and international partners alike. Yet ultimately,
who will take up development challenges
and how, will depend on the domestic political
economy and how such domestic actors and factors
interact with regional and global ones. So, while a
post-2015 framework can provide the setting for
developing global and other partnerships in support
of national development, it cannot determine
how these will be used in each case. at the country
level the framework will in effect become integrated
into the domestic political economy as one of the
instruments that local actors may use to advance
their objectives and as a platform for negotiation
and agreements between them and external actors.
Domestic political will, good governance and
adequate capabilities are clearly key and cannot be
taken for granted. Yet, as this chapter has also shown,
external actors, international regimes and flows of
financial resources, trade and labour migration do
have important impacts on local processes and can
be built on in different ways by local actors. therefore,
the design of a post-2015 framework should not
merely focus on development cooperation as a conduit
to support domestic development processes, but
also include these other factors.
thus, while the impact of a global framework
on the domestic political economy should not be
exaggerated, it is often important, and helping to