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Accountability and Dialogue
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.
"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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