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Technical Seminar on Joint Programming 27 November 2012

Session 3 Prospects for additional countries

DEVCO/A3 Aid and Development Effectiveness and FinancingEEAS VI.B.2 Development Cooperation Coordination Division

Purpose of this session

Present our assessment of JP potential and progress made in countries (additional to the six countries)

Collect Member States’ views on JP potential and progress made

Common understanding on prospects of JP for additional list of countries

To make it clear: we are not deciding in which countries JP should be taken on, but identify countries with potential and a way to move ahead (session 4)

Windows for synchronisation and JP2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 ?

Burma/Myanmar Algeria Afghanistan Bangladesh Armenia Nicaragua ChadEthiopia Egypt Cambodia Benin Bolivia HondurasGhana South Sudan (ph2) Comoros Burkina Faso Georgia KenyaGuatemala Tunisia Paraguay Burundi Jordan LiberiaHaiti Cote d'Ivoire Libya MoldovaLaos (transition) El Salvador Senegal Sierra LeoneMali Laos (full) SomaliaoPt Malawi Timor LesteRwanda Mauritania Togo

MoroccoMozambiqueNamibiaNigerTanzaniaVietnamZambiaZimbabwe

First issue for discussion

Do we in general support the proposal to move JP forward in an additional list of countries?

Second issue for discussion

What are the views on our assessment of the potential in the following 16 countries?

JP processes underway in 16 countries

Joint analysis started in: Bolivia, Burma/Myanmar and Burundi; as next step add additional elements of JP

Agreement on JP in: Cambodia (HoMs report), Honduras, Ivory Coast, Paraguay and Senegal to move ahead now or later

Option of JP discussed in: Algeria, Egypt, El Salvador, Liberia and Tanzania; further consultations needed

Follow-up to the Heads of Missions' report: Bangladesh, Moldova and Tunisia

Third issue for discussion

What are the views on other countries’ potential besides these 16 countries?

To be discussed region by region (see next slides)

Joint Programming Potential (1)

West Africa:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Central Africa:

Burundi, Chad, Rwanda

Joint Programming Potential (2)

East Africa:

Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania

Southern Africa:

Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Joint Programming Potential (3)

Asia/Pacific:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Timor Leste, Vietnam

Latin America and Caribbean:

Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay

Joint Programming Potential (4)

Neighbourhood East: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, [Ukraine]

Neighbourhood South:

Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, oPt, Tunisia

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Technical Seminar on Joint Programming 27 November 2012

Session 4 Next steps and facilitation

DEVCO/A3 Aid and Development Effectiveness and FinancingEEAS VI.B.2 Development Cooperation Coordination Division

EU Procedure for JP document (1)

For EU part in JP: apply same process /procedure in Brussels as for a bilateral/single proposal without JP

JP document in-country prepared under guidance of heads of missions; including required consultation (CSOs, etc.). This is where support by consultants could come in.

Once agreed by EU HoMs JP doc sent to EEAS and DEVCO; follow in-house assessment procedure (CTM, etc.)

HoD will see that MS and other donors handle the JP doc through their own system (including role of their capitals)

EU Procedure for JP document (2)

Following endorsement by HQs finalise JP in-country with partner country, then initialled by HoMs and if possible partner country

Final document to be transmitted by HoMs to capitals

Adoption and formalisation according to individual donor procedures/requirementsAgain: for the EU part, our own procedure apply: same as for single programming doc, but take account of Member States’ and other donor contributions

Consider signing ceremony (only after legal basis DCI or 11th EDF)

Role of HQs: promotion & facilitation (1)

EEAS/DEVCO will contiune to regularly inform and discuss with Member States:

Council: CODEV working group and FAC/DEV [placeholder: informal ministerial?]

EU Directors General meetings

Technical seminars

Role of HQs: promotion & facilitation (2)

Missions to EU MS capitals by EEAS/DEVCO

In-country support missions: EEAS/DEVCO (possible together with EU MS) and consultants

Joint programming training: open to Member States; option: train the trainers

Country desks: informal network/contacts with EU MS

How to assess JP feasibility in-country: HoMs reports

Transmission note to programming instructions: ‘if in 2012-2013 conducive circumstances for JP, then

send Heads of Mission’s report’

Added value of HoMs reports:Enables shared position of EU and MS on the groundPositive experience in first wave ‘11-country’ exercise

HoMs reports for other countries recommended

Next steps

Technical Seminar on 27 November:- Present current progress- Present potential list of JP countries- Identify potential for additional JP countries

EU Development DGs meeting on 11-12 December- Present, discuss and conclude on outcome of technical seminar

Request for HoMs JP feasibility assessment reports in countries identified

Issues for discussion

On the next steps for the additional countries:- What should we present to the EU DGs meeting?- how should we communicate with our field offices and ensure common/coherent messages should the HoMs report approach be replicated?

How can we ensure that EU and Member States approval procedures of the actual JP documents go in parallel?

How should EEAS/DEVCO further inform/support Member States?