This is a presentation about an innovative project in India entitled "Development Pact". Presentation by Anupama Jha, GDN Award finalist on Most Innovative Development Project. GDN14th Annual Conference Manila, Philippines June 7-9, 2013

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2. POLITICIANS SITTING WITH ADMINISTRATORS IN A
ROOM PREPARING DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR
THE POOR

3. WHAT DOES IT LEAD TO
 Increase in corruption, lack of inclusive
development and growth.
 People no longer trust their political leaders and
administrators.
 Corruption in political and administrative institutions
add to the problem. It enables disproportionate
access to political and administrative decisions,
benefiting a few at public cost.
 Corruption also creates poverty through unequal
opportunities for citizens

4. DEVELOPMENT PACT
 The Development Pact is a tool in the hands of the
poor that creates political incentives to fight
corruption in development
 Pacts between champions and the poor can convert
political will into development benefits and
accountability.
 They aim to improve :
 Public accountability in the decision –making on
public resources and
 Access to and quality of public goods & services

5. RIGHT HOLDERS WORKING ON THE DEVELOPMENT
AGENDA
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6. HOW DO PACTS HELP
 Pacts help common citizens to create a development agenda
for the elected leaders.
 They also track the delivery of development commitments
and the decision-making process by demanding inclusive,
empowered and institutionalised citizen participation in
development processes.
 Pacts are tools in the hands of the poor that creates political
incentives to fight corruption in development .
 TI India adds its political access, convening power and high
visibility to create public scrutiny and pressure on
commitments given by the political champions

7. 2. Dialogue
a) Support
partners in
identifying
tangible benefits
b) Create
provisional pact
content through
bilateral
dialogues
c) Initiate public
dialogue between
key stakeholders
5. Review
Periodically revisit:
a) The integrity of the
tool: Broad-based
review & participation
mechanisms
b) The ‘visibility’ of
the tool: The benefits
gained, benchmarks
set & role models
created
c) Its ability to sustain
& replicate: Links to
multipliers, trends and
larger reforms
ReplicationthroughSuccess
1. Prepare
a) Map strategic
opportunities &
risks for DPs
b) Identify
partnership
opportunities:
CSOs, media,
etc.
c) Identify &
screen
promising key
partners: public
officials, citizen
groups / CBOs
Steps in the creation of a Development Pact
TI involvement as Facilitator
3. Agreement
a). On RESULTS:
Key accountability
and development
targets to be
delivered
b) On a ROADMAP:
With time-bound &
specific targets and
clarity on each
partners
commitments
c) Issues can be:
education, health,
agriculture, water,
infrastructure, etc.
4. Launch
a) Create a
highly public
event for the
Pact signature
and launch
b) Create a
broad-based
inclusive
ceremony
c) Ensure a
‘cultural’
element
creates true
ownership and
“sanctity”

8. DEVELOPMENT PACT IS INNOVATIVE
 Instead of political bashing, it creates incentives for political
champions to be honest and deliver on development agenda
 Creates opportunities for empowered participation of poor in
shaping and enforcing public accountability
 Gives opportunities to citizens to organise themselves and link
their development priorities to the fight against corruption. It also
gives them credible options at the political level to choose from .
 It works with political champions who get limited in an environment
of entrenched corruption

9. DEVELOPMENT PACT IS REPLICABLE
 It has already been replicated in other countries. An inclusive
corruption – free planning and implementation process benefits all
stakeholders in the Pact. Hence pacts are working in India at the
state and block level, in Zambia at the ward level, at nine sub-
countries in the district of Rakai in Uganda and in Nepal.
Slowly, other TI chapters in Bangladesh and elsewhere are also
replicating this method.
 Civic participation in preparing development agenda and their
training in monitoring their elected representatives has resulted in
strengthening the grassroots communities who have continued to
work even after we withdrew.
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10. CHALLENGES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE PACT
 Finding a political champion
 An environment of entrenched corruption
 Lack of opportunities for a corruption-free path to power /
promotion
 Development deliverables are seen in competition with corruption
 Citizens do not have options at individual levels to act differently
 Lack of credible options at political level to choose from
 Lack of organised action linking their development priorities to the
fight against corruption
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11. SOLUTIONS
 Success of Development Pacts in selected constituencies in India, at
state level as well as local level have encouraged us to believe that
these can work.
 Its replication in other countries across the world has strengthened
our belief.
 It helps citizens and public officials identify steps that take them out
of entrenched corruption.
 Helps in participatory governance that eventually leads to decreased
tolerance to corruption

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