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Middle East / North Africa and the Millennium Development Goals Overview 9: Questions as to the MDG relevance of DC strategy papers Do they deal with the state of the MDG process in partner countries? ― Do they point out clearly where the major deficits and problems lie in efforts to implement the MDGs? ― Do they analyze these deficits and problems? ― Do they explain why a partner country is unable to solve its problems on its own? Do they point out clearly the MDGs to which German DC is seeking to provide a contribution? ― Do they point concretely to the goals pursued by German DC? ― Do they state why it is precisely these goals that are being pursued? ― Do they specify the MDGs / individual MDGs as goals of German DC? ― If the answer is no: What measure of conformity is there between the concrete goals of German DC in a partner country and the MDGs? ― Are these the MDGs that present especially urgent difficulties for a partner country? ― If not: Do they explain why the German contribution to implementing a given MDG may nevertheless be important for a partner country? Do they plausibly explain the anticipated cause-and-effect relation between the approach and/or the measures of German DC and the MDGs / its other goals? ― Do they explain the assumptions and the approach on which German engagement is based? ― Do they explain whether and how the approach used by German DC is contributing to reaching the MDGs aimed for? ― Do they present a sufficiently detailed description of the measures in which German DC is engaged? ― Do they derive these measures from the conceptual approach of German DC? ― Do they explain why precisely these measures are reasonable and appropriate – and why others might not do as well? ― Do they convincingly outline the cause-and-effect relation between the measures and the goals of German DC? Do they explain why an engagement of DC is both called for and reasonable? ― Do they explain why a partner country is unable to take such measures on its own / without external support? ― Do they note whether or how German DC is assisting a partner country in overcoming the crucial bottlenecks facing its efforts to reach the MDGs? ― Do they explain what comparative advantages German DC has in conducting given individual measures? Do they explain whether and why German DC may also pursue goals other than the MDGs? ― Is German DC (also) pursuing other goals in addition to the MDGs? ― Do they explain why they see these goals as reasonable? Source: By the author German Development Institute 141
Markus Loewe – State of the MDG process: Most of the PSPs deal relatively precisely with the progress a partner country has made in recent years in MDGrelevant sectors. Many of them also cite figures for MDG indicators. However, only one paper notes specifically that it is dealing with an MDG-relevant sector or an indicator from the MDG agenda. Furthermore, most of these papers do not express adequately which development problems are more serious than others and what factors these problems may be due to. – Goals of German DC: Nearly all of these papers define the specific sectoral goals of German DC, and in most cases they largely coincide with individual MDGs. These are almost without exception MDGs that a partner country is experiencing serious difficulties in implementing. This, however, is not stressed. Even in cases where the priorities of German DC largely coincide with the thrust of the MDG agenda, the relevant MDG is not mentioned. Furthermore, few papers justify why German DC is pursuing one particular goal instead of other goals which a partner country may be having similar problems reaching. – Links between goals and measures of German DC: Most PSPs not only specify the goals of German DC, they also describe relatively precisely the approach involved and the measures supported by German DC. There is no question here that nearly all of these measures are helpful and appropriate for a partner country. But only in a small number of cases is the anticipated causal nexus between the measures and the goals of German DC outlined in sufficient detail. The assumed cause-impact chains are often long, and most of the papers fail to deal with crucial links of these chains. This often means a lack of clarity as to the mechanisms which concrete DC measures use in pursuit of relatively highly aggregated goals. Rodenberg (2001, 12) came to a similar finding in her analysis of a far higher number of PSPs on partner countries in all parts of the world. As regards the goal of contributing to alleviating poverty, she notes in an exemplary passage: 142 “While PSPs often mention poverty reduction straight off as a reference point, e.g. in the form of a reference to a country’s PRSP process, there are no further references to it when it comes to deriving support strategies and concrete approaches. They remain at the level of the sectoral analysis. Only rarely do they succeed in outlining, in a coherent strategy, poverty orientation from the analysis to the given initial situation […], from the means / mechanisms used […] to direct forms of participation.” (Rodenberg 2001, 13). German Development Institute
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