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Accountability
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Ongoing debates on the orientations of official development assistance place a strong emphasis on enhancing the specific accountability processes of partner countries and the forms of mutual accountability between partner countries and donor countries, the aim being to achieve common development objectives.
This need for information gives rise to greater accountability towards stakeholders (government actors, parliamentary actors, actors from civil society…).
Our approach to dialogue
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A specific methodology for dialogue has been established for documents such as strategic intervention frameworks by sector (SIFs), region (RIFs) or for cross-cutting frameworks (CIFs). Once the final strategy document has been validated by the Strategic Planning Framework (SPF), it is subject to a dialogue with stakeholders (civil society, ministries, parliamentarians, researchers…) prior to being put before the Board of Directors. This process does not aim to reach a consensus. There is, however, an underlying aim that goes beyond simply informing stakeholders.
Other forms of dialogue are organized at the request of our operational departments.
Giving stakeholders the opportunity to express their views demonstrates the fact that aid processes are built jointly.
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Parliamentary dialogue
AFD has set up a team specialized in relations with national elected representatives, mainly with Members of the French National Assembly, Senators and Members of the European Parliament. This team also works closely with other actors in national politics, particularly the members of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council. AFD’s aim is to implement an information strategy on the conditions in which it conducts the mission entrusted to it by the Government, i.e. as the main public operator for France’s official development assistance.
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Dialogue with citizens
AFD has a role to play in informing citizens about development assistance. For several years now, the IFOP/AFD poll has been highlighting the French public’s expectations on this topic of development assistance. Raising awareness and informing also requires implementing interactive forms of communication that allow citizens to express their expectations, their views and their fears in this field. AFD has launched an initiative for forums-debates in order to meet this objective.
News
Forum-debate | South/North experiences: What lessons for education?
As part of the “Misconceptions and Taboos of Development” cycle, AFD and ODISSEE are organizing a forum-debate on 12 November from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Bellevilloise in Paris.
Topic of the forum-debate: “South/North experiences: What lessons for education?”
The debate is an interactive forum. Keynote speakers with opposing views will introduce the topic via a 5 to 6 minute address and will be reacting to the comments made by participants throughout the debate.
The three speakers for the meeting on 12 November are Jean-Christophe Maurin, Head of AFD’s Education and Vocational Training Division, Mahfou Diouf, Head of the Educational Mission France at Aid and Action France, and Aurore Brachet, Head of the Education Policy Service, Department of Early Childhood and Education, at Argenteuil City Council.
In 2010, the External Relations and Communication Department launched a program entitled “ Dialogue with Citizens ”, which aims to stimulate public debate on the issues of aid and international solidarity. It is based on the principle that the active participation of citizens or their representatives can improve both the legitimacy and effectiveness of public policies and, in this case, development policy.
A number of initiatives have been implemented (Dialogue with civil society on our strategic documents, monthly meetings with stakeholders and the French Foreign Ministry…) on the basis of AFD’s transparency policy established in 2007, one of the aims of which is to develop a dialogue process between the Institution and citizens. The “Misconceptions and Taboos of Development” forums are part of this program.
The aim of these meetings is to get to the bottom of the arguments and different points of view, compare them within an informal and constructive environment and thus structure exchanges with citizens on the objective factors of the debate on development.
Dialogue citoyen sur le développement territorial : que s'est-il dit?
L'association Odissee a organisé, avec le soutien de l'AFD, un forum-débat le 26 juin au Collège des Bernardins sur le thème "Développement territorial : quelles leçons tirer des bonnes pratiques d'aide au développement?" Synthèse.
La séance a été introduite par deux grands témoins, Louis-Jacques Vaillant, directeur des relations extérieures et des partenariats de l’AFD et Nicolas Wit, directeur général adjoint de Cités Unies France, avant de laisser place à des échanges captivants entre les intervenants et un public diversifié, composé d'une centaine d'acteurs du développement, de leaders d'opinion, de représentants d'ONG, d'étudiants et de chercheurs.
Après avoir brossé collectivement un panorama analytique de plusieurs cas de bonnes pratiques de développement territorial ayant prouvé leur efficacité dans les pays du Sud (Projet urbain global à Medellin, politique d’allocations de la Bolsa Familia au Brésil, …) les participants ont partagé les leçons tirées de ces diverses expériences en identifiant les facteurs clés de leur succès et les principes d'action à observer, selon eux, pour optimiser les projets d'aide au développement. Voici quelques unes des recommandations d'action dégagées lors du forum-débat:
I. Les facteurs clés de succès des projets de développement :
- Corréler, à travers une même action, les réponses aux enjeux de court terme et les politiques de long terme.
- Refuser les « modèles » de développement formatés, tout en appuyant la réflexion et la définition de projets sur les exemples de bonnes pratiques des autres pays, du Sud comme du Nord.
- S’appuyer sur les initiatives d’acteurs locaux (habitants, associations, collectivités, entrepreneurs).
- Bâtir en amont une vision de l’avenir et d’un projet politique de développement.
- Impliquer toutes les parties prenantes dans la définition et le déploiement des projets, de façon à leur permettre de se les approprier et d’en partager les objectifs.
- Mettre en oeuvre des projets adaptés au terrain et initiateurs de nouvelles dynamiques au sein des populations.
- Veiller au suivi et à la transparence des actions publiques pour construire la confiance des populations envers leurs dirigeants et leur utilisation des fonds publics.
II. Les principes d’action clés pour optimiser les projets d’aide au développement :
- Analyser et comprendre les enjeux de terrain pour identifier et soutenir les dynamiques locales les plus pertinentes.
- Financer directement les projets entrepreneuriaux locaux qui sont les plus adaptés au contexte.
- Accompagner les personnes et coacher les équipes projets pour partager connaissances et compétences en matière de gestion de projets.
- Mutualiser les outils et les méthodes à travers des plateformes d’échange ou des formations à la gestion opérationnelle de projets capitalisant sur les expériences et bonnes pratiques du Nord et du Sud.
- Travailler sur les concepts utilisés et le langage pour faciliter la compréhension mutuelle et construire la confiance entre acteurs du « Sud » et du « Nord ».
- Etre capable de remise en question permanente, en commençant par ses propres modèles de pensée, d’adapter ses raisonnements et ses pratiques, de reconnaître les limites de ses analyses et de ses projets, d’évaluer précisément ses actions et d’analyser les succès comme les échecs.
Retrouvez le compte-rendu du forum complet en format PDF en cliquant sur ce lien.
Forum-debate | Territorial development: reconciling economic development, social development and sustainable development
As part of the “Misconceptions and Taboos of Development” cycle, AFD and ODISSEE are organizing a forum-debate on Tuesday 26 June from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris.
The topic of the forum-debate: “Territorial development: reconciling economic development, social development and sustainable development”.
The debate is an interactive forum. Two keynote speakers with opposing views will introduce the topic via a 5 to 6 minute address and will be reacting to the comments made by participants throughout the debate.
The two keynote speakers for the meeting on 26 June are Louis-Jacques Vaillant, Director of External Relations and Partnerships at AFD, and Bertrand Gallet, CEO of United Cities of France.
In 2010, the External Relations and Communication Department launched a program entitled “Dialogue with Citizens”, which aims to stimulate public debate on the issues of aid and international solidarity. It is based on the principle that the active participation of citizens or their representatives can improve both the legitimacy and effectiveness of public policies and, in this case, development policy.
A number of initiatives have been implemented (Dialogue with civil society on our strategic documents, monthly meetings with stakeholders and the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs…) on the basis of AFD’s transparency policy established in 2007, one of the aims of which is to develop a dialogue process between the Institution and citizens. The “Misconceptions and Taboos of Development” forums are part of this program.
The aim of these meetings is to get to the bottom of the arguments and different points of view, compare them within an informal and constructive environment and thus structure exchanges with citizens on the objective factors of the debate on development.
"AFD, the Spearhead of French Cooperation": Report by Senators Cambon and Vantomme
On 25 May 2011, French Senators Christian Cambon and André Vantomme presented to the press the report they have just published in which they give their opinion on AFD’s performance and resources contract.
It is the first time that the French Parliament has given its opinion on AFD’s performance and resources contract. To mark this occasion, some thirty representatives from the press, NGOs and the private sector were invited to the Senate for a breakfast presentation of the report entitled “AFD, the Spearhead of French Cooperation”. This title puts the way the two senators see AFD in a nutshell and effectively presents their in-depth and relevant analysis.
Senators Cambon and Vantomme, who are members of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Commission and also closely involved in development cooperation policy, have strongly emphasized how AFD’s actions play a leading role. The report does, however, mention some risks that have been identified and puts forward several recommendations: need to rebalance bilateral and multilateral aid, conduct an ex post evaluation of all actions, diversify indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa (other than education and health), raise the profile of partnerships with NGOs and the French Overseas Communities, or again evenly distribute dividends between the State and AFD.
Watch the video presentation (in French) of the report
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