The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB)

IDA16 & Aid Effectiveness Campaign

IDA 16 as an opportunity for increased aid effectiveness

PNoWB and European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) view the 16th replenishment of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) as an opportunity to increase the global commitment to aid effectiveness, with the ultimate goal of helping the world to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. The two organisations have captured this message in their IDA 16 and Aid Effectiveness Campaign, launched in May 2010 and running throughout IDA 16 replenishment, fund allocation, program implementation, and monitoring/reporting.

The Campaign calls on the World Bank:

To deepen its commitment to aid effectiveness in four key areas and through increased engagement with donor and partner country parliamentarians during all stages of IDA 16.

These priority areas (increasing country ownership, strengthening country statistical/results measurement systems, adding of a peer-review dimension to Country Assistance Strategy progress reports, and leading by example in health, nutrition and population programs) are reflective of the aid effectiveness principles outlined in the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action and are also based on findings and recommendations emerging from the IDA15 mid-term review (World Bank, 2009) and the most recent Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration (OECD, 2008).

Equally important, the Campaign also calls on donor governments:

To fully replenish IDA funds by meeting or exceeding IDA15 funding levels (US$ 42 billion) as the world readies its self for the final push to meet the MDGs by 2015.

Campaign Materials

Key to ensuring that the Campaign's main messages are well defined and communicated is the set of Campaign materials. These are comprised of:

The Principle Issue Brief and Call to Action, which presents the campaign in three pages and outlines its four central issues.

Four Supporting Issue Briefs that provide background on each of the four central issues identified in the Principle Issue Brief. They are:

1) Increasing country ownership,

2) Strengthening statistical/results measurement systems,

3) Adding peer-review to CAS progress reports and

4) Strenghtening health, nutrition and population programs

Four Parliamentarians & Development policy briefings, which serve to frame the wider development situation in relation to the campaign. They are:

1) The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action,

2) The World Bank and Aid Effectiveness,

3) IDA15 Mid-Term Review and

4) Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals

The complete set of core campaign materials is currently available in English and French. They will also be made available in Arabic and Spanish in the near future. Please contact PNoWB should you wish to use any of the above materials.

Key Audiences

The campaign has three key audiences: parliamentarians and their staff in donor country and partner country parliaments, the World Bank (headquarters and country offices), and the IDA deputies (representatives from member countries' governments).

Campaign events

PNoWB members and secretariat participated in an IDA field visit to Mali from 20 to 23 June 2010. During this visit, the campaign was presented to 15 parliamentarians from IDA donor and partner countries. A mission report will soon be available online. If you wish to organize an IDA 16 and aid effectiveness event in your parliament, please contact PNoWB.

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