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Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness
A unique exercise in mutual accountability

Presentation
David Batt
Director, OECD Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit

Okey Onyejekwe
Director, UNECA Governance and Public Administration Division

Moderator
Dennis le Tray
Principal, Results for Development Institute

Friday, April 24 2009
Cannon House Office Building
Room 121
Washington DC, 20515
9:00-10:00 AM Presentation, 8:30 AM Registration

While the series is free of charge, space is limited. 
We ask you to please register by Thursday, April 23.

Event Description:

The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa Report 2009 is both an exercise in 'mutual accountability'- assessing what has been done to deliver on commitments to Africa's development, and a review of 'development effectiveness'- assessing what results have been achieved.
It is also intended to be of practical use to political leaders in looking forward to the key policy challenges ahead.
The review has been undertaken jointly by task teams from UNECA and OECD, in close consultation with the NEPAD Secretariat, and with inputs from African and international institutions and civil society.  It is intended to answer four basic questions:

• What are the main commitments which have been made by Africa and its development partners?
• Have these been delivered?
• What have the results been?
• What are now the key future policy priorities?

The main report is composed of brief overviews of the four main topics, and key cross-cutting issues, followed by a series of 2-page summaries highlighting findings and recommendations for the fifteen "focus issues". 

Biographies:

David Batt brings to the OECD his extensive experience at senior level in international development, international institutions and policy, and in particular an excellent understanding of African development issues. His career spans ten years in Overseas Development Administration and almost twenty years in HM Treasury, latterly in the Department for International Development. Immediately prior to coming to OECD to become the Director of the Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit, as Regional Deputy Director, Eastern and Central Africa David managed a group of 6 DFID overseas offices in DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Okey Onyejekwe is currently the Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division of the UNECA, where he is responsible for the MRDE Report and directs several programmes including Economic and political governance, Anti Corruption, and Aid effectiveness.  Since joining the UNECA, he has served as a Regional Adviser on Governance and Development Management and served as the Lead Coordinator of the First African Governance Report (AGR 1), a comprehensive Study on the State of Governance in 27 African countries.  Prior to joining the UNECA in 2001, he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia in their post conflict electoral systems and at the World Bank, Africa Region as a visiting African Scholar, where he worked on issues of governance and decentralization/civic engagement in Democratization.  Dr. Onyejekwe is a former Professor of African Political Development, as well as the Director of the Center for African Studies at the Ohio State University.  He holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism from the University of Nigeria as well as an MA and Ph D in Political Economy from the Ohio State University. 

Dennis de Tray began working on development issues at the RAND Corporation, a U.S.-based think tank. After 12 years with RAND, Dr. de Tray joined the World Bank to take over management of the Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Survey. Following the successful launch of LSMS, he became the Bank’s Research Administrator, overseeing its centrally funded research. In 1992 he moved from research to the Bank’s operations complex, and, in 1997, became the first decentralized country director for Indonesia. Dr. de Tray has worked and lived in a number of developing countries, including Vietnam, as the IMF Senior Representative, and in Kazakhstan as the World Bank’s country director for the five Central Asian Republics. After 23 year at the Bank, 12 of them in the field, he joined the Center For Global Development, a Washington-based think tank, as the Center’s first Vice President. He is now a Principal with the Results for Development Institute. His currently working with USCENTCOM on development in counterinsurgency, with the World Bank on Southern Africa, and with the governments of Kazakhstan and Timor-Leste. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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