Indicator 17.16.1 Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the sustainable development goals

Indicator 17.16.1: Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the sustainable development goals

Target 17.16: Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Definition:

The indicator tracks the number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder monitoring frameworks that track the implementation of development effectiveness commitments supporting the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Concepts:

“Multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks” that track effective development cooperation are monitoring frameworks:

• whose indicators have been agreed on a voluntary basis; whose indicators measure the strength of the relationship between development actors;

• where data collection and review are led by the countries themselves; and where participation in data collection and review involves relevant stakeholders representing, at minimum, the public sector, the private sector and civil society organizations.

The indicator takes into account the need to capture the respective roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in multi-stakeholder partnerships for development. It does so by looking at development effectiveness frameworks that are led by countries but include the participation of all relevant development partners.

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (Global Partnership) monitoring framework is an example of existing development effectiveness monitoring frameworks. There are other complementary efforts, such as the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) mutual accountability survey. Emerging and future monitoring frameworks that fit the above definition, such as recent efforts to track South-South Cooperation by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), could also be considered.

Number of countries

The monitoring is a voluntary and country led process. Country governments lead and coordinate data collection and review. At country level, data are reported by relevant government entities (e.g. the Ministry of finance/budget department for national budget information) and by development partners and stakeholders. OECD and UNDP are supporting developing countries in collecting relevant data through the Global Partnership monitoring exercise, and these organisations lead data aggregation and quality assurance at the global level.

Complementarily, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has been conducting a regular survey for the Development Cooperation Forum, in cooperation with UNDP, to identify national progress in mutual accountability and transparency. Survey results are assessed in comprehensive studies, informing global monitoring and providing practical suggestions for improving development results. Synergies with the measurement of Accountability mechanisms of the Global Partnership monitoring framework are being used. Other complementary sources of data (i.e. additional multi-stakeholder frameworks) may be incorporated in the future to provide a broader picture of progress made by countries towards development effectiveness in support of SDG implementation.

Leading central ministry from reporting countries. Typically, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Planning, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, depending on the division of labour within each government.

Description:

Representatives from the leading ministry in country governments –- are responsible for leading the national data gathering and review process, and final data submission. These representatives coordinate the data collection process at the national level by consolidating data and inputs from providers of development co-operation, Civil Society Organisations, the private sector, and trade unions. For calculation of indicator 17.16.1, country governments submit the data to the OECD-UNDP Joint Support Team of the Global Partnership.

The design of the indicator has practical benefits:

• the indicator allows for relevant monitoring frameworks to be updated in line with evolving commitments and country specific context without affecting the spirit of the indicator;

• the indicator does not presume a globally-set multi-stakeholder framework, acknowledging the diversity of complementary efforts supporting effective development cooperation;

• the indicator allows participating countries to choose whether they would like to report as a provider of development co-operation, as a recipient, or both.

Data collection for the Global Partnership monitoring framework is led by countries receiving development co-operation. Progress of countries providing development co-operation in implementing development effectiveness commitments is captured through their partnership behaviour in those countries. Depending on each case, countries that currently are both recipient and providers of development cooperation opt to report in their role as recipient and/or provider of development cooperation.

To reflect the universal nature of target 17.16, this indicator is presented as the global aggregate number of countries reporting progress. For any country reporting towards one (or more) multi-stakeholder development effectiveness framework(s), the country is considered to be reporting progress when, since the last reporting cycle, the number of indicators within the framework(s) that show a positive trend is greater than the number of indicators that show a negative trend.

Countries providing development co-operation funding and reporting in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks are assessed against the following elements:

• Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development co-operation (SDG 17.15.1). This element is the average of the following three sub-elements:
  • Aligning to country-defined development objectives: Percentage of new development interventions whose objectives are drawn from country-led results frameworks.
  • Using country-led results frameworks: Percentage of results indicators contained in new development interventions which are drawn from country-owned results frameworks.
  • Using national monitoring and statistical systems: Percentage of results indicators in new development interventions which will be monitored using government sources and monitoring systems.
• Transparency of development cooperation: Public availability of information on development cooperation according to international reporting standards and systems.
• Annual predictability of development cooperation: Proportion of development cooperation disbursed as development partners had scheduled at the beginning of the year.
• Medium-term predictability of development cooperation: Proportion of countries for which a development partner has provided forward-looking spending plans to the partner government (indicative annual amounts of development cooperation support to be provided over the one-to-three years).
• Development cooperation on budgets subject to parliamentary oversight: Share of development cooperation funds planned to/for the country’s public sector that are recorded in the national budget submitted for legislative approval.
• Development cooperation delivered through country systems: Proportion of development cooperation disbursed to a given country according to national regulations and systems for public financial management (i.e. budgeting, financial reporting, auditing) and procurement.
• Untied aid: Proportion of development cooperation that is untied.^[1]

Countries receiving development cooperation funding and reporting in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks are assessed against the following elements:

1. Leading in setting up national priorities: Quality of a country’s national development strategy and results frameworks.
2. Creating an enabling environment for civil society organisations: Civil society organizations operate within an environment that maximises their engagement in and contribution to development.
3. Development cooperation on budgets subject to parliamentary oversight: Share of development cooperation funds planned to/for the country’s public sector that are recorded in the national budget submitted for legislative approval.
4. Strengthening mutual accountability: A country has inclusive, regular, transparent, result-focused accountability mechanisms captured in a policy framework.
5. Strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment: A country has a system in place to track – and make public – budget allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
6. Strengthening domestic institutions: Quality of a country’s budgetary and public financial management system.

Countries providing and receiving development cooperation funding are invited to select whether they would like to report against provider-specific commitments, against recipient-specific commitments, or against both sets of commitments.

For countries reporting both as providers and recipients of development cooperation, progress is calculated separately based on the respective set of indicators described above. Disaggregated results will show the detailed performance in each category. For the ultimate count of the number of countries making progress, dual countries are accounted as making progress if progress is made as recipient or as provider of development cooperation.

The baseline for assessing progress is the latest measurement available for each specific count. When no baseline exists for a country, the first measurement available for an indicator constitutes the baseline for future measurements of progress.

When a country meets and sustains all targets for the indicators it reports on (i.e. it is logically impossible to make further progress) it is considered as “making progress”.

2024-09-27

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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