1. Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific Tracking aid effectiveness and MDG’s progress in the Pacific region Feleti P Teo Deputy Secretary General Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

2. Compact Purpose & Deliverables  Key Objective – drive more effective coordination of available development resources centered on the aim of achieving MDGs  Echoes principles of country ownership, alignment, harmonisation and mutual accountability  Key Deliverables address key principle of aid effectiveness: Peer review and self assessment of national development plans and planning processes; Development partner reporting on efforts to support aid effectiveness; Tracking of Development effectiveness; MDG Tracking Roadmap to strengthening public financial management High level dialogue with the private sector  Emerging body of evidence on regional development data.

3. Tracking Aid Effectiveness in the Pacific & Progress  Annual report on tracking overall development effectiveness in the region  Synthesis of material coming out of three deliverable and processes under Cairns Compact Peer review of national planning processes; Reporting by FICs on their national development plans Development partner reporting on their efforts in support of aid effectiveness principles  Contribute to body of evidence that generates a specific Pacific perspective on national, regional and international efforts to improve development in the region

4. Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress  2010 MDG Tracking Report build on previous reports  Localization of global indicators to suit local circumstances and priorities  Creation of additional goals  Progress towards MDGs is an incremental process and that measurement is not always continuous  On aggregate, little substantive change in status of achievement in progress towards the Goals since latest Pacific MDG Tracking Report (2009)  An holistic approach is thus taken in the assessment of progress towards the achievement of the Goals in the 2010 Tracking MDGs Report

5. Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress  Data Issues Datasets presented represent the “best estimates” of MDG status of Pacific Island Countries as at 2010; often actual data relates to earlier years Standard definitions and methodologies for some indicators are not universally used across the region  MDG Progress Overall trend is that  Polynesian countries have been performing relatively well  Micronesian countries of the north Pacific have been struggling to maintain earlier gains  Melanesian countries, notably those where there has been conflict or civil/political tension, a reversal of earlier achievements is being noticed

6.  Accelerating Progress Keys to accelerating progress two-fold i.Sustain progress already made; enhance progress towards goals that remain to be met ii.Accelerate progress so as to meet at least some of the Goals Targeted “acceleration” interventions needed Interventions to be framed in the context of national development strategies and sector plans Tracking Pacific Regional MDG Progress

7.  Mixed performance of MDG progress in the Pacific region  Low levels of economic growth limit resources allocation for MDG  Need for greater regional coordination of development resources  Joint efforts between PICs, development partners and all stakeholders  The Cairns Compact - regional platform for enhancing cooperation in development coordination Conclusion