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The Principles of Partnerships: Contributions to
European Integration and Development
Effectiveness
Belgrade, 7-9 December 2005
Promoting CSO engagement in European Integration
NGO Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction
UNDP Lithuania
COs strategic positioning vis-à-vis EU
accession process
• Only Country Programme (2004-2005), which is explicit
in its relationship with the EU accession process; since
from 1 May 2004 Lithuania became a full member of the
EU
* UNDP’s overall strategy:
• (a) closing the gaps and refining the integration process
in areas where UNDP has a comparative advantage
• (b) helping Lithuania in its role as an emerging donor
(part of the responsibilities taken on by Lithuania as an
EU member)
COs strategic positioning vis-à-vis EU
accession process (contd.)
* However:
• inevitable that most, if not all, of the UNDP interventions in Lithuania contributed to
the accession process
• may reflect the shared values of the UN and the EU
• reflects the degree of cooperation between UNDP and its national partners, as well
as the degree of national ownership of the UNDP programmes, whereby these
programmes helped supporting the overarching national priority of EU accession
• there are cases where UNDP may have accelerated the process or at least facilitated
governments efforts to comply with EU accession requirements, for example,
interventions in the areas of gender, human rights and anti-corruption
• there are cases where UNDP has directly supported the early development of EU-
type strategies - the best example: preparation of the Action Plan for the
Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy for 2002-2004 (PRAP) and
preparation of the civil society to take part in the implementation of this strategy.
Key Outputs of UNDP Support to Poverty
Reduction Planning and Policy
• Expanded Household Budget Survey
• Labour Survey
• Survey of Social Beneficiaries
• Poverty Levels in Lithuania: Results of Studies of
Household Budgets and Living Conditions
• Poverty and Employment Report
• Living Conditions of Social Benefit Recipients Survey
Key Outputs of UNDP Support to Poverty
Reduction Planning and Policy (contd.)
• Study on Rural Lining Conditions Standards
• National Poverty Reduction Strategy
• National Poverty Reduction Action Plan for
2002-2004
• MDG Reports
Disaggregated MDG reports
* Examples of key issues in Lithuania:
• Poverty – Relative poverty: has decreased from 18% to
16.4% in 5 years. But increased in rural areas from 26%
to 27.3%
• TB mortality up by 20%
• Gender & Rural/Urban gap in Life Expectancy. City
dwellers have 3 yrs more.
• Global Partnership – develop ODA capacity
Disaggregated MDG reports (contd.)
* Strategy of Lithuania:
• Focusing on making progress in qualitative terms against the MDGs
• Adapting and interpreting the most appropriate goals and linking
them to the EU’s Laeken indicators – the social inclusion indicators
in support of the implementation of the EU Lisbon Strategy
• Regional workshop on “Aligning the EU Social Inclusion Process
and the MDGs”, April 2004
National Poverty Reduction Strategy:
* Targets:
• Relative poverty: from 16% in 1998 to less than 10% in 2005;
• Absolute poverty: (0.8% of the pop. in 1998) eliminated by 2005.
* High priority policy areas outlined:
• Limitations to, and passive nature of poverty reduction measures
• High levels of unemployment leading to persistent poverty
• Low agricultural productivity
• Limited availability of state assistance to rural areas
• Growth of social exclusion
• Slow pace of implementing poverty prevention measures
* Red Cross – NGOs representative in the preparation process
National Poverty Reduction Action Plan for 2002-2004:
early support to EU-type strategy development
* The core aims of NPRAP:
• strengthen attention of civil society to the problems of poverty
• create conditions for public institutions and civil society organisations to
communicate and co-operate with reference to the poverty reduction issue
thus promoting civil society’s participation in general
• transform the aspirations of poverty reduction to the discourse on practical
measures
• force the participants of this process to assess actual poverty reduction
possibilities and estimate the necessary resources as well as look into their
potential sources
• allow evaluation of other poverty related programmes implemented by the
government
• revisit the legal acts both in force and under preparation to assess their
possible impact on poverty situation
“Agreement signed in late 2002 between UNDP,
the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and
NISC concerning the implementation of project
on Strengthening of NGO Abilities in Pursuit of
Poverty Reduction in Lithuania are of utmost
importance for cooperation between the state
and NGOs on the efforts to reduce poverty and
social exclusion.” Lithuania National Action Plan
on Poverty and Social Exclusion 2004-06
Survey:
NGOs Willingness, Intentions and Capacities to
participate in Poverty Reduction Activities (2002)
* 62.5% of surveyed NGOs presently contribute to poverty reduction
* 70.6% would like to contribute to poverty reduction in the future
* Number of projects in 2001
• One – 12%
• 2 to 5 - 43.3%
• 6 to 10 - 7.7%
• More than 10 - 24%
• Difficult to say – 13%
Survey:
NGOs Willingness, Intentions and Capacities to participate
in Poverty Reduction Activities (2002) – cont.
Three main Obstacles for the NGOs to take part in Poverty Reductiona
(% from NGO active in poverty reduction)
Financial difficulties, lack of resources 66,3
Unfavourable governments policy 54,8
Legal obstacles, unfavourable legal background for projects financing 41,3
Lack of initiative and self-help spirit among the poor 38,5
Lack of appreciation for NGO activities by authorities 35,6
Lack of information 15,4
Lack of personnel 11,5
lack of knowledge where to apply 8,7
2,9
Lack of time
Other 7,7
No response 5,8
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Survey:
NGOs Willingness, Intentions and Capacities to participate
in Poverty Reduction Activities (2002) – cont.
* Resources mobilised domestically prevail
National and Foreign Resources Mobilised
(% fron NGOS active in poverty reduction)
6,7
500 001 and more
4,8
8,7
100 001 - 500 000 Lt
6,7
13,5
20 001 - 100 000 Lt
12,5
7,7
5001 - 20 000 Lt
5,8
14,4
Up to 5000 Lt
4,8
13,5
havent received
44,2
35,6
no response
21,2
0 20 40 60 80 100
Resources from abroad National resources
UNDP response - NGOs Capacity Building
project
* Issues addressed by the project:
• To strengthen NGOs & CSOs to act as partners in helping
communities build their own solutions to poverty/social inclusion
challenges
• NGOs & CSOs need to be capable to liaise with government on an
on-going basis
• To improve civil society’s ability to influence policy and carry out
monitoring of policy implementation
Capacity of civil society for: project design, resource mobilisation,
organizing & networking, community mobilisation, poverty
monitoring, policy analysis, budget analysis, advocacy, lobbying, etc
UNDP response - NGOs Capacity Building
project (contd.)
• Questions of legitimacy, representation, broad participation – what
are the links to poor communities & other civil society actors at the
level of national and European networks
• Support civil society coalition building and networking activities to
promote representation
• Feedback mechanisms, so that those who are consulted are
informed if their views were taken into account
Establishment of the Lithuanian Network of NGOs working in the field
of social inclusion and joining the European Anti-Poverty Network
UNDP response - NGOs Capacity Building
project (contd.)
• Capacity of government – understanding of participatory approaches
& expertise to use them for policy purposes
• Government convinced of value of civic engagement
Participatory process of National Poverty Reduction Strategy and
Action Plan preparation, training for government officials, NGOs &
CBOs activity map at the local level
