Integrated Development Planning (IDP) under the IRBM

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Permalink Reply by Tamirat Yacob on April 24, 2008 at 10:17am

Dear Arun,

Thank you for this effort. i would like to join and ready to learn from all my collegues and contribute what i know.

Regards,

Tamirat,

Ministry of Finance and Economic Development,
Development Planning and Research Department,
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on April 25, 2008 at 9:59am

Dear Tamirat - thanl you and I look forward to your and our other colleagues' active participation in the forum. I think this is a great opportunity for us all to share and learn from each other. In the course of my international advisory work in IRBM, I have found some commendable initiatives by specific developing countries, that are really worthy of adapting and adopting in other countries. It is my hope that while I share with our colleagues about the IRBM system and approach, we will also be able to use this forum to identify and review some of such examples and case studies from other countries. Look forward to your active participation on the IDP in the coming period.
Regards.
Aru Rasappan

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Permalink Reply by FRANCIS KATAMBA on April 25, 2008 at 5:44am

Dear Arun,

Am certain that this debate is going to be enriching but i don't see you pointing out the need to debate the role of the legislature in the process of achieving results based management in developing countries. Am suggesting a debate on the principles of financial oversight as it forms part of the process.

Thanks

Francis Katamba

Parliamentary Budget Office,
Parliament of Uganda.

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on April 25, 2008 at 9:53am

Dear Francis - thank you for the observation and suggestion. You are indeed very right. The IRBM system covers all players in the "development game". Each and every entity, including the legislature, has a specific role to play and therein the basic principles of the IRBM "game". But playing this game, where the stakes are very high, requires specific ground rules and clear roles/responsibilities for each player. The IRBM system provides such a system and the specific tools for it that actually facilitate and enable the players to play the game and focus on the development results. One such tool is the results-based budgeting, which is a foundation component for IRBM system.

I'd urge you to closely follow the upcoming discussions under each of the IRBM component, starting with Integrated Development Planning and Management, in the next few weeks to see how the IRBM can and actually has brought about substantive and meaningful development results for developing countries.

Regards.
Aru Rasappan

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on April 28, 2008 at 3:15am

Dear Colleagues,

To kick start the discussions on the Integrated Development Planning (IDP) under the IRBM system, here are a list of questions to guide our discussions. The questions posed below would essentially help address some of the typical challenges that developing countries face. At the end of the discussion of these questions, I'd like to throw some thoughts and insights into the approach and methodology for Integrated Development Planning within the IRBM system. Please feel free to provide your inputs and experiences in relation to one or more or all of the questions listed. If you think there should be other issues linked with development planning that should also be discussed, please do post them for discussion.

At the end of the discussion series, we will try to synthesize and post the issues and points raised for the benefit of AfCoP members. Please remember that many of the issues related to the questions below are fundamental to the challenges that developing countries are facing in dealing with not only their national development efforts but also in dealing with donors and aid effectiveness.

Please note that this discussion on the IDP will be concluded by mid May. When replying, it would be helpful if you identified the specific question/s that you are referring to in your reply. Here are the questions and I hope to see some active discussion in the coming 2 weeks.

Integrated Development Planning and Management: Some Key Questions

1. Does your country adopt a five year comprehensive Development Plan or medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) or both?
2. What/how is the process for macro development planning in your country?
3. Does your country’s five year development plan link up to a longer-term perspective plan and/or national Vision?
4. To what extent (and how) is your national development plan linked with the country’s Vision (if available)?
5. How are the national level macro priorities for your country determined?
6. What/how is the consultative process for constructing the national level priorities under the development plan?
7. What/how is the process of assigning these national priorities to specific sector and sub-sectors?
8. What/how is the process of cascading these sector and sub-sector priorities to the implementation levels?
9. To what extent are grass-root level priorities taken into account and integrated into the national development plan?
10. What/how is the process of assessing the contribution of the lower levels to the national development plan?

Regards

Aru Rasappan
Center for Development & Research in Evaluation (CeDRE) International
Kuala Lumpur
E-Mail: arasappan@cedre.org.my

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Permalink Reply by Tamirat Yacob on April 29, 2008 at 5:28am

Dear Arun,

Thank you for your interesting questions.

To begin with(i would like to address Q#1here) my country, Ethiopia has adopted both i.e the fiver year development plan called Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) (Kindly see the first African CoP MfDR ONLINE new sletter)and also we use the MTEF whcih has a three year life span. The PASDEP is from 2005/06-2009/10 and it should be noted that it is an MDG based development plan.

Q#3and #4. Yes, the PASDEP is the first part of the Development ranging from 2005/06-2014/15. And it is well linked to the our national Vision. Just let me put what the plan document stated about this.
"This Plan is the first 5-year phase to attain the goals and targets set in the MDGs at a
minimum. In order to realize the objectives and ensure that the country's vision and dream come true, a coordinated and concerted effort at national level is critical in addition to the need to aspire beyond what is required by the MDGs. The country's vision
specifically on the economic sector has set the following goals:
1.To build an economy which has a modern and productive agricultural sector with
enhanced technology and an industrial sector that plays a leading role in the economy;
2. To sustain economic development and secure social justice; and,
3. Increase per capita income of citizens so that it reaches at the level of those in middleincome countries." And as answer to Q#4. one can see to what extent the Ethiopian development plan is linked to its vision.

Will be back for the remaining questions which i work on and share what we have done in my country.

Best regards,

Tamirat Yacob
Development Planning and Research
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development,
Ethiopia

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on May 1, 2008 at 4:56am

Thank you Tamirat for your feedback. Certainly sounds like you have a good tie up with the macro level priorities and with the national Vision. Look forward to the balance of your response soon.

Aru Rasappan

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Permalink Reply by Sovuthea Hay on May 5, 2008 at 2:41am

Dear Aru and all,
Thanks for posting guiding questions. I'd like to address only 1st question as i asked other Cambodian teammates to answer others if they like to.
In Cambodia, we adopt only 5-year national development plan. In spirit of Public financial management (PFM) reform program, launched in 2004, the government was to adopt MTEF too whose role is to govern multi-year programming. but so far, institutionalization of MTEF has not yet been completed, actually it is at the beginning of the long process i'd say. If you have any suggested strategies to incorporate MTEF into national budgeting system, plz kindly share me. Thanks you.

Hay, Sovuthea
Researcher, Supreme National Economic Council
Cambodia

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on May 5, 2008 at 12:28pm

Dear Hay,

Thanks for the initial feedback on the development planning process in Cambodia. The introduction of the MTEF has indeed helped many developing countries modify their traditional budgeting to take into account medium term budget plans. While this is a good start, there are others who would argue that the MTEF approach, while good, is not necessarily the only solution. The introduction of the multi-year medium term development plans spanning a five year period and incorporating multi year rolling budgets has helped move countries beyond the boundaries of MTEF. This has proven the possibility of countries moving from a MTEF approach to a five-year integrated development planning approach supported by an integrated results-based budgeting system.

Aru Rasappan

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Permalink Reply by Goaba Mosienyane on May 15, 2008 at 11:30am

Thank you for the instructive questions and the responses that followed. I too wish to share a Botswana experience of development planning with the community;

Botswana adopted a five year comprehensive development plan called the National Development Plan (NDP). A national vision was developed, targeted at the year 2016. The current plan is the penultimate to the one expected to deliver the vision results. The NDP is expected to be aligned to the vision. However, the actual method of ensuring this is not clear and has been seen as a challenge to articulating the results with respect to identified impact areas. The public service reform process is causing attention to improvement of the planning process to further address linkages and to enable communication of status of results with respect to Vision 2016.

I look forward to continuing this interesting discussion.
Goaba Mosienyane

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on May 19, 2008 at 6:38pm

Dear Goaba,

Thank you for sharing experiences from Botswana. What you have described is very interesting as many developing countries also undertake similar initiatives. Many developing countries also have some form of national Vision, which typically also has a set of priorities. These priorities are meant to be addressed through the five-year development plans. This sounds easy but as you rightly pointed out, there are many challenges. It is difficult to systematically plan, implement, and report on national five year development plans. However, experiences from other countries have shown that this is not that huge a problem as long as we approach the planning process in a more systematic manner. There are many challenges to be addressed besides the planning aspects.

The Integrated Results Based Management system offers an effective approach to help developing countries improve their performance in their five year development plans and Vision initiatives. We will be reviewing the dynamics of this IRBM system a bit later in this forum but I'd like to hear of more such experiences from our other colleagues from other countries.

Thanks once again for sharing some of your experiences in Botswana.

Aru Rasappan

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Permalink Reply by Arunaselam Rasappan on May 15, 2008 at 2:57pm

Dear Colleagues,

Please take note that the ongoing discussions on the Integrated Development Planning (IDP) topic under the IRBM system will be concluded by the end of this month.

Several important questions pertaining to the IDP were posted for discussion. on this Forum. For your convenience, the 10 questions posted earlier are listed again below. I hope more colleagues from different countries will share their experiences in their countries on this Forum. We look forward to hearing from the other members.

When replying, it would be helpful if you identified the specific question/s that you are referring to in your reply. Here are the questions and I hope to see some active discussion in the coming 2 weeks.

Integrated Development Planning and Management: Some Key Questions

1. Does your country adopt a five year comprehensive Development Plan or medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) or both?
2. What/how is the process for macro development planning in your country?
3. Does your country’s five year development plan link up to a longer-term perspective plan and/or national Vision?
4. To what extent (and how) is your national development plan linked with the country’s Vision (if available)?
5. How are the national level macro priorities for your country determined?
6. What/how is the consultative process for constructing the national level priorities under the development plan?
7. What/how is the process of assigning these national priorities to specific sector and sub-sectors?
8. What/how is the process of cascading these sector and sub-sector priorities to the implementation levels?
9. To what extent are grass-root level priorities taken into account and integrated into the national development plan?
10. What/how is the process of assessing the contribution of the lower levels to the national development plan?

Regards.
Aru Rasappan

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