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Middle East / North Africa and the Millennium Development Goals sult from a cross-cutting project-support concept, how a structure-building impact may be achieved through concentration, and whether and to what extent German DC has managed to intensify the sectoral dialogue (Rodenberg 2001, 1). A BMZ guideline of October 2000 8 on the preparation of PSPs furthermore points out that the papers are expected to illustrate whether and to what extent the measures taken in a given priority sector contribute to reaching the goals of German DC. Since April 2001, when the German government adopted its Program of Action 2015, the chief priority sector has been poverty reduction (based on a broad understanding of poverty). There are, under the umbrella defined by the overarching goal, other goals, including social and economic development (pro-poor growth, social equity, decent living conditions), political development (stability, peace, human rights, democracy), ecological development (environmental and resource protection), and the cross-cutting tasks of participation, gender equality, and sustainability (Rodenberg 2001, 2). The present study examined the BMZ’s MENA country concepts and PSPs with a view to determining whether and to what extent they outline the engagement of German DC for the global goal of poverty reduction with specific reference to the concrete contributions it is providing toward reaching the individual MDGs. The strategy papers have in this connection been examined with a view to their relation to the questions listed in Overview 9; in other words, all strategy papers were expected to provide answers to these questions. There is no other place where German DC outlines more concretely and in more detail the contributions it is providing to help implement the MDG agenda in its partner countries (BMZ 2005a). In analyzing the available strategy papers 9 , it was noted that the goals and approaches of German DC are broadly congruent with the MDG agenda and that the measures that German DC promotes in the MENA region may in fact contribute to its implementation, which is, however, not sufficiently documented. On the other hand, the partner countries, which bear the main responsibility here, should also provide documentation on the measures they have taken to reach the MDGs, and which may be supported by DC. 8 Cited verbatim in Rodenberg (2001, 31–38.). 9 All of the strategy papers evaluated in this connection are cited in Table A16, Annex. German Development Institute 139
140 Markus Loewe Even a first, purely quantitative evaluation of the strategy papers demonstrates that the MDG agenda plays hardly any role at all in the strategic planning process of German DC. Country reports were available for seven of the total of nine partner countries / priority partner countries of German DC in the MENA region. In addition, a country brief was available on an eighth country (Mauritania). In not one of these papers was found any reference to the MDGs or to the Millennium Declaration. Country concept papers have been prepared only for the four priority partner countries of German DC. Two of these likewise lack any reference to the MDGs, and the third addressed the MDG agenda only in passing. Only the country concept for Yemen goes into the MDG agenda in a central passage and at some length. The experience made in evaluating the available PSPs or PSP drafts turned out to be much the same. Ten of 13 papers 10 do not even address the MDGs and only one of them convincingly derives the goals and measures of German DC from partner-country development plans, which in turn make reference to the MDG agenda (see Table A17, Annex). The second, qualitative evaluation of the PSPs did little to temper the impression made by the first, purely quantitative evaluation. It shows that even within its priority sectors, German DC is aligned in such a way as to be able to contribute significantly to implementing the MDG agenda. Many of its goals are largely congruent with individual MDGs, and the measures it supports appear to be target-oriented. However, the papers neither make reference to the MDGs nor outline plausibly the anticipated chains of cause and effect between individual measures and the results aimed for by German DC and the overarching goals of German DC. In many of these papers this problem could probably be corrected without any major difficulties. In any case, though, German DC is, at least as far as the present form of its strategy papers is concerned, missing an excellent opportunity to appropriately outline and present the contribution it is actually making to implementing the MDG agenda. This can be shown with reference to the questions listed in Overview 9: 10 There should actually be 20 PSPs for all countries of the region. But when the evaluation was conducted, six of them were not yet available and a seventh had been prepared but was not available. German Development Institute
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