TheThe Impact of Development Cooperation Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDGs 3 in Reaching MDGs 3

Presented by: Hon. Dr. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, M.Si., MPFirst Vice President of Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women and

Peace of Inter-Parliamentary Union

Vice Chair-Person of Committee for Inter Parliementary Cooperation of The House of Representatives of Republic Indonesia

2010 Development Cooperation Forum

Helsinki, Finland

MDGs 3: MDGs 3: Development Cooperation, Challenges and Development Cooperation, Challenges and

SolutionsSolutions

1. Critical Issues and Commitments

2. Indicators of the Achievement of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Program

3. Problem of Tracking the Impact of Development Assistance on Gender Equality

4. Addressing a Lack of Relevant Sex-Disaggregated Statistics

5. Good Practices: Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistic

6. Practical Requirements of Gender Consideration into New Aid Delivery Mechanism

7. The Most Pressing Requirements to Develop Capacity for Gender Responsive Aid Strategies and Management Practices

8. Immediate Action Agenda Needed in the Future

In this Presentation:

Traditional gender norms, stereotypes, and practices.

Employment, Migration and displacementGlobalization and regional integrationLaws and policies supporting gender

equalityRegional diversity

Critical Issue:

Asia-Pacific Challenges

At National Level:Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Empowerment in all development plannings at ministerial level.Affirmative policies and programmes on education for girls and women.Promote and ensure Equality of Laws for Men and Women, esp on:

Equality in Job Opportunities, Wages, Rights for Maternity Leave. Property Rights: Land, Property.Protection against Domestic Violence.

Rearrange and establish institutional arrangements to accomodate and supervise gender issues, ex. National Commission against Violence. Indonesia has several legislation which can be considered as “best practices” in gender advocation: - The Law No. 12 Year 2006 regarding Nationality- The Law No. 21 Year 2007 regarding Criminal Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons- The Law No. 23 Year 2004 regarding Elimination of Domestic Violence- The Law No. 21 Year 2002 and The Law No. 10 Year 2008 regarding General Election which is related to women’s quota in parliament

At Regional Level:Cooperation in policy making, higher education, legal protection

Commitments

Indicators for The Achievement of Gender Equality and Women

Empowerment Program

Many indicators can be used to reflect the achievement of gender equality and women empowerment program, among others are:

Number and ratio of new jobs for women to new job for men, by sector and industry;Proportion of women in formal sector and self-employment;Proportion of women-owned sole proprietorship;Number of sexuality education classes conducted in school;Number of cases of violence against women reported to police;Proportion of the population that knows violence against women is a crime;Number and size of women’s quotas in national parliament;Proportion of the national budget devoted to gender equality and empowerment; Etc.

Problems of Tracking the Impact of Development

Assistance on Gender Equality

• Relevant and accurate statistics are believed to serve as a determining factor in tracking the impact of development assistance on gender equality;

• Gender mainstreaming and women empowerment process has been hampered by a lack of relevant sex-disaggregated statistics.

Addressing a Lack of Relevant Sex-Disaggregated

Statistics • Considering that the role of statistics in

tracking the impact of development assistance on gender equality and women’s empowerment is indispensable, we believe that it is vital to invest in not only government capacity to collect and analyze gender sensitive information but also in civil society’s capacity.

Good Practices: The Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics

• The Indonesian National Statistics Bureau is a non-departmental government institution which directly reports to the Indonesian President;

• The Bureau’s main function is to provide data to the government and public. The data are derived from the Bureau comprehensive statistical activities, consisting of periodic information on structure and growth of economy, social change, and development;

• In regard to the Indonesia’s achievements on MDGs, the Bureau provides such statistics as Infant Mortality Rate, Mortality Ratio for Mothers in Labor, Ratio of Girls to Boys Enrolled in Education, Maternal Mortality Ratio, etc.

Good Practices: The Indonesian Donor Harmonization and Aid

Effectiveness (1)• As a signatory to Paris Declaration on Aid

Effectiveness, the Government of Indonesia and its development partners signed Jakarta Commitment: Aid for Development Effectiveness – Indonesia’s Roadmap to 2014.

• Recognizing the achievement of MDGs, improvement of public service deliveries and decentralization as main key development challenges, the Government takes a leading role to optimize the effectiveness of aid in supporting development priorities set by the Government.

Good Practices: The Indonesian Donor Harmonization and Aid

Effectiveness (2)• Jakarta Commitment consist of key principles to be

followed gradually by multilateral/donor agencies:– Strengthening Country Ownership of Development,

including aligning with government priorities, use of improved country and governance systems.

– Effective and Inclusive Partnerships for Development, including for new aid instruments and South-South Cooperation.

– Delivering and Accounting for Development Results including to harmonize monitoring and evaluation systems and institutions between the Government’s and Partners’.

OWNERSHIP

ALIGNMENT

HARMONIZATION MANAGING FOR

RESULTS

MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY

PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 1

National Development Strategies and Budgetary Process which includes gender Equality goals and targets based on indicators

PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 2

Capacity Building of national ministries to Mainstream gender budget initiative processesThrough multi-sectoral technical assistance to

Ministries in order to produce programmed Based budgeting

PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 3

Shifts from projects based approaches to Programmed-based approaches as a way to

Include gender-responsive results in programmed Plans and integrate gender-responsive

budgeting principles into budget processes

PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 4

Gender-responsive planning and performanceBased monitoring with harmonized, gender

Indicators, through improved collection and Analysis of sex-disaggregated data

PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 5

Increasing public access to information on Policies based not only on development results

But also those accountable for providing thepolicies

2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

Developing Capacities forGender-Responsive Aid Strategies

OWNERSHIP ALIGNMENT HARMONIZATION MANAGING FOR

RESULTS MUTUAL

ACCOUNTABILITY

Greater initiatives andRole of Women in

Pursuing their needs And seeking

responsesFrom policy-makers

Identification of PrioritySectors in the

National developmentPlans for technicaland institutional Capacity building

Consensus betweenStakeholders in the

Development arena onThe importance of

Gender equality

Assessment Frameworks whichConsist of a set of

Indicators thatMonitor national

Development strategieswhich incorporateAssessment tools

for gender equality

Accountability indicatorsOn the impact on genderEquality on developmentSpending at national andLocal levels are needed

In order to evaluateThe impact of aid on

Gender equality

The Most Pressing Requirements to Develop Capacity for Gender

Responsive Aid Strategies and Management Practices

To strengthen National Capacity-building to address capacity weakness through reforms within public sector institutions.

To ensure that sex-disaggregated data for policy making process, monitoring and evaluation are including in aid-funded programs.

To urge multilateral/donor agencies to explicitly mainstream gender perspectives and empowerment in all programs.

Immediate Action Agenda Needed in the Future