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Quality Management

The overall objective

Building synergies among EU donors in the field of quality assurance in order to provide better aid.

Foreseen results and activities

The Working Group is expected to identify 'best practice' in the following areas:

1. knowledge management systems (including IT tools), to:

exchange information on quality management methodologies and guidelines
exchange experiences on best practice from projects/programmes financed by each EU donor;
set up a structure to store documents on quality management and experiences and raise awareness on their existence; and
use this forum to consult the different participating organisations on the development/revision of quality related methodologies.

2. in line with what is internationally recognised as the 'reference terminology' in particular OECD/DAC, exchange information on the terminology used in the field of quality management and ensure that quality managers understand the terminology in relation to the organisational structure in which it is applied;

3. quality aspects to be appraised focused on the different needs and requirements of:

phase of the project/programme cycle (identification/formulation, implementation or ex post); and
aid delivery modality (project approach, sector wide approach and budget support).

4. exchange of information on results indicators (relevant and measurable) with a view to having them applied in a coherent way.

exchange of ad-hoc indicators; and
set up a simple data base of best practices in terms of selection and follow- up of indicators.

Structure of the Group

Lead: EuropeAid (Mr. Nicolas Leroy, nicolas.leroy@ec.europa.eu)

Participants : Each thematic group is open to all European public bilateral and Community implementing agencies and all institutions which directly implement official development cooperation. If you are interested in joining this group, please contact the thematic group leader (see above) or the Network Coordination Office: Katja.Legien@dev-practitioners.eu.

Joint Monitoring

Initiatives proposed by EuropeAid in the framework of the Quality theme have been focussed so far on the issue of joint monitoring : how to avoid duplication of monitoring and evaluation processes during project implementation, how to harmonise and/or rely on one donor's procedures are some of the key issues. Workshops have been open to participants outside the Practitioners' Network (notably multilateral donors). ...more

Events

Donors' domestic accountability Seminar, 15-16 December 2009

A wide group of development actors met in Paris for a 1,5 day conference and debate about questions raised by the accountability of development agencies in their own countries towards their governments, parliaments, civil societies etc.

Details on the programme and speakers can be found in the invitation form.

Invitation

Seminar on MDG reporting, Frankfurt, 10 November 2009

Providing evidence of the contribution of our actions to the MDG will become an all the more important issue as the MDG conference in New York in September 2010 is approaching (ten years after the millenium declaration).

A group of development practitioners met on 10 November 2009 at the invitation of KfW to exchange views, on the basis of a comparative study of existing project assessment methodologies and further to the presention of KfW MDG reporting tool.

Report

Agenda

AFD Presentation - comparative study

KfW Presentation - MDG reporting

Link to the presentation of ASPIRE