Report of the Regional Workshop - Escap

Country project proposals and actions plans
Therefore, foreign aid or ODA was, and still is, necessary at least in
the near future for the purpose of realizing full transition to a market economy.
This will only be achieved by: intensifying economic reform and overcoming
economic and industrial crises, ensuring socio-economic, external and internal
balances, accelerating structural reforms and developing a private sector-led,
export oriented economy. The key concern is how to use foreign aid effectively
and achieve our goals. The Development Cooperation Effectiveness project
hopes to achieve this through improving the utilization of ODA and its
perceptible results through effective aid coordination mechanisms, according
to the law on aid coordination and international approaches. The project objectives
are to develop quality information management and knowledge networking
mechanisms; establish an enabling environment for policy coherence and
consensus on shared priorities; and harmonization of development cooperation
procedures to reduce the burden on the civil service caused by multiple and
complex donor procedures.
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1. Introduction
Mongolia is largely dependent on official development assistance
(ODA) which is accounts for about 90 per cent of capital account in the country’s
balance of payments.
The problem to be addressed is the ineffective implementation of
ODA projects. The reasons for this are the low capacity of government staff,
lack of stakeholder participation, poor project formulation and lack of monitoring
and evaluation.
This impacts on the confidence of the donor community, makes it difficult
to achieve the national development strategy goals, makes project sustainability
poor and leads to slow or low economic development.
2. Stakeholder analysis
Table 9. Mongolia stakeholder analysis
Stakeholders Their interests Size of stakeholder Extent of influence
Government
To accomplish national
strategy/
objectives
11 ministries Medium
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This project proposal was developed by Mr. Lae Tul Siliva (Samoa) and Ms. Khosbat
Batsukh (Mongolia).
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