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The key role of development cooperation in making the world a safer place Romilly Greenhill Team Leader Development Finance 7 th April 2016

What role for development cooperation? 3 #hashtag

So where should development cooperation be spent? • Focus on countries and regions in which – Need is greatest, particularly to LNOB – Ability to mobilise other resources is lowest 4

Where is need greatest? 5

6 Available public finance and social compact costs (LICs) $ per annum per person 200 300 100 0 Somalia Malawi Burundi Central African Republic Ability to mobilise domestic resources Congo DRC Liberia Niger Madagascar Guinea Ethiopia Eritrea Gambia Uganda Guinea-Bissau Togo North Korea Mozambique Rwanda Tanzania Burkina Faso Mali Sierra Leone Afghanistan Nepal Benin Haiti Zimbabwe Bangladesh Kenya Cambodia Tajikistan Chad Myanmar Mauritania Aid available (50%) Revenue capacity available (50%) Social compact cost @ODIdev #FtF2015

New challenges can take resources away from this group of countries • Climate change: 61% of $30bn Fast Start Financing to mitigation • Refugee spending putting pressure on aid • Security focus can skew aid allocation, including within the fragile states group • 16% drop in aid to LDCs in 2014 7

We also need to spend development cooperation better • Not just ‘business as usual’, but a new consensus – Ownership, alignment and speed – More ‘politically smart’ approaches to aid delivery – Better risk management – Longer-term approaches – Less long-term reliance on short-term humanitarian channels • These requirements pose challenges for current ‘results agenda’ and aid scepticism 8

A new multilateralism • Strong case for using multilaterals, especially in fragile states – Capacity to take on and spread risks – Longer-term perspective and longer-term results – Less politicised – More selective – More predictable • But multilaterals need to be reformed 9

Conclusions • A new agenda, and new challenges – but should not lose focus on the core purpose of ODA • Real tensions between new agendas and ODA allocation • Keeping the focus on LDCs and fragile states does not mean ‘business as usual’ • Need a new ‘politically smart’ consensus on development effectiveness • A new multilateralism 10

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