ARD-DFID Partnership

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The Agriculture and Rural Development - Department for International Development (ARD-DFID) partnership on the Analysis of Public Expenditures in Agriculture had its origins in discussions in 2005 between the ARD anchor, the World Bank regions, and DFID on the importance of improving agriculture Public Expenditure Reports (PERs) in order to improve the impact of existing agricultural public expenditures on desirable outcomes in client countries, provide a basis for increased attention to agriculture by facilitating a public sector which is committed to the delivery of desirable outcomes and build capacity in both World Bank and DFID country offices and for their client country counterparts. 

 

This contribution was designed to fund a series of work identified and approved by the Project Steering Committee, which includes a DFID Project Advisor. These funds will be made available through a series of individual contracts.

 

The partnership has three "Modules" of collaboration

 

Module 1:

 

This module synthesizes available evidence on trends and impact of public expenditures in agriculture from existing studies into a series of papers and notes . 

 

IFPRI output: 

• How Can Government Promote Pro Poor Agricultural Growth - Shenggen Fan and Joanna Brezeska.  June 2007
• Public Spending in Developing Countries: Trends, Determination, and Impact - Shenggen Fan and Anuja Saurkar.  June 2006
• Growth and Poverty Impacts of Agriculture Related Public Expenditures - Shenggen Fan and Joanna Brezeska.  June 2007

OPM output: 

• Review of Public Spending to Agriculture - Stephen Akroyd and Lawrence Smith.  January 2007.
• The Decline in Public Spending to Agriculture – does it Matter? - Stephen Akroyd and Lawrence Smith.  June 2007.

Module 2:

This module consists of 6 country case studies on agriculture public expenditure reviews.  These studies were selected by the Steering Committee for the DFID-World Bank partnership following a Bank-wide competition.

 

Case Studies by Country:

 

Module 3:

 

This module will consist of a series of lesson-learning, capacity-building activities and dissemination.  The lesson-learning component will consist of both the synthesis of insights across country cases and assessment of desirable tools for use by clients and country offices. This includes:

1. An Agriculture Public Expenditure Review Workshop, Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia
   Date: May 11-12 2009
   Objective: To improve methodologies to better align agricultural spending with outcomes through the use of agriculture Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs).  Learn lessons from agricultural PERs in six country case studies and refine guidelines for subsequent reviews.
   Participants: More than 50 participants from government ministries, World Bank task teams, representatives of regional organizations, DFID, IFPRI, FAO, IFAD, and ILRI
   
2. Synthesis Report
   The Synthesis Report will provide insights from country case studies on how to improve agriculture public expenditure
   
3. PER Toolkit 
   The Toolkit will provide conceptual and practical support and guidance for conducting various kinds of agriculture public expenditure analysis