A regional conference of V4 countries in BratislavaMay 17-18, 2006

Official Development Assistance – challenges and solutions from

financial perspective

Ministry of Finance of Slovak Republic

Official Development Assistance – challenges and solutions from financial perspective

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

FINANCIAL SOURCES

REPORTING

STATISTICS

CHALLENGES

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

Medium–term Strategy for ODA – 2003-2008

ODA National Programme – annual document

Annual Report on ODA provided by the Slovak Republic

Directive for the provision of ODA

Bilateral agreements – beneficiary countries/IOs/IFIs

Financial guidelines

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

State Budget Law

Budgetary Rules Law

Accounting Law

Public procurement Law

Financial supervision and internal audit Law

Government Decrees

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of SR

Ministry of Finance of SR

Administr. and Contracting Units – BBF & TF

other institutions

FINANCIAL SOURCES

Multilateral ODA

EU contributions - % from Own Resources, EDF

Contributions to IOs – UNEP, FAO, etc.

Contributions to IFIs – WBG (IDA), EBRD etc.

Debt relief – HIPC, initiative G8 MDRI

FINANCIAL SOURCES

Bilateral ODA

Operating by two Administrating and Contracting Units (ACUs)– Bratislava-Belgrade Fund & UNDP Trust Fund

Humanitarian Aid

FINANCIAL SOURCES

Budget planning

3 years budget programming

Budget specification for coming year and 2 years outlook (ministries)

Government decision on Budget proposal

Approval of Budget Law by National Parliament.

Budget Law implementation

FINANCIAL SOURCES

Budget spending

MoF

State Treasury

Ministries

IAs

Beneficiaries

FINANCIAL SOURCES

ODA

PROGRAMME 05T

MFA Ministry of Interior Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Education

MoF, Ministry of Defence and others authorities are out of the 05T programme

REPORTING

• Bilateral ODA• Beneficiary on regular quarterly base • ACUs/IAs on MFA request• MFA SR on Government Decree No. 332/2002

• OECD/ DAC on voluntary base

Report of Slovak ODA to the Government - yearly

REPORTING

Multilateral ODA

MoF SR from EU + IOs + IFIs

MFA SR

Report of Slovak ODA to the Government

OECD

STATISTICS

CALCULATION OF ODA PERCENTAGE - RATIO

Bilateral ODA Multilateral ODA

GDP (by Statistical Office)

+

= ODA %

ACU TFACU BBFHumanitarian Aid

EU ContributionsContributions to IOs Contributions to IFIsDebt Relief

STATISTICS

Year IN THOUSAND SKK ODA/ GDP (%)

2002 257 000 0,024

2003 553 500 0,048

2004 910 500 0,072

2005 1 739 551 0,120

2010 3 200 000 0,17

2015 7 800 000 0,33

STATISTICS

ANOTHER USE OF OECD/ DAC STATISTICS

DONOR ATLAS MADE BY EU

INTERNAL NEED FOR MFA REPORTS

ANOTHER GOVERNMENT REPORTS

CHALLENGES

– Design of the new national ODA legislation

– Establishment of the ODA Agency

– Improvement of the ODA reporting & statistics

– Meeting the UN Millennium Goals and EU committments

– Enhancing Slovak entities to implement ODA projects in the international field

– Public awareness

Official Development Assistance – challenges and solutions from financial perspective

Thank you for your kind attention

Any questions?