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The purpose of this indicator is to provide a relevant assessment regarding the degree of “respect for each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement country-owned policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

This indicator measures the extent to which, and the ways in which, all concerned development partners use country-led results frameworks (CRFs) to plan development cooperation efforts and assess their performance. The indicator assesses the degree to which providers of development cooperation (i.e. development partners) design their interventions by relying on objectives and results indicators that are drawn from country government-led results frameworks reflecting the country’s development priorities and goals. 

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In particular, for interventions approved in the year of reference (i.e. most recent behaviour), the assessment measures the extent to which support from other countries and international organizations set exogenous priorities and conditions to partner countries receiving development co-operation that are not reflected in existing country-led priority-setting mechanisms or planning tools.

The information collected throughout the indicator provides a “two-way mirror”, providing both a country-level estimate on a country’s existing policy space, and a development partner-level estimate on its degree of alignment with existing results frameworks and priority- setting mechanisms in partner countries where it operates. 

Country results frameworks (CRFs) define a country’s approach to results and its associated monitoring and evaluation systems focusing on performance and achievement of development results. Using a minimal definition, these results frameworks include agreed objectives and results indicators (i.e. output, outcome, and/or impact). They also set targets to measure progress in achieving the objectives defined in the government’s planning documents.

The definition of country-led results framework used for this indicator allows the possibility to use equivalent priority-setting mechanisms at the country level since not all countries articulate their priorities through consistent, integrated CRFs.

In practice, government-led results frameworks defined at the country level are often broadly stated (e.g. long-term vision plans, national development strategies) and operationalised in more detail at the sector level (e.g. sector strategies), where specific targets and indicators are set for a given timeframe.

Some examples of CRFs are long-term vision plans; national development strategies; joint government-multi-donor plans; government’s sector strategies, policies and plans; subnational planning instruments, as well as other frameworks (e.g. budget support performance matrices, sector-wide approaches). In contrast, planning and priority setting documents produced outside the government, such as country strategies prepared by development partners, are not considered CRFs.

Given the bottom-up approach in generating the indicator, disaggregation will be possible at the country level, at the development partner level, at the sector level, and at the development project level. While data collection is led at the country level, in a bottom-up approach, global and regional aggregates can be used for monitoring internationally-agreed commitments related to strengthening country ownership and better partner alignment with nationally-set development goals.

To provide a comprehensive measure on the extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and other government-led planning tools, the indicator calculates the degree to which objectives, results indicators and monitoring frameworks associated with new development interventions are drawn from government sources –including national, sector and subnational planning tools.

For each development intervention of significant size (US$ 100,000 and above) approved during the year of reference, the following dimensions are assessed:

• Q1. Whether objectives are drawn from government-led results frameworks, plans and strategies 0/1
• Q2. Share of results (outcome) indicators that are drawn from government-led results frameworks, plans and strategies %
• Q3. Share of results (outcome) indicators that will rely on sources of data provided by existing country-led monitoring systems or national statistical services to track project progress %

Aggregated averages per partner country will provide an assessment of the country’s available policy space and leadership. All formulas are available at: http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/metadata-compilation/Metadata-Goal-17.pdf

Aggregated averages per development partner will indicate the percentage of alignment with country-led priority setting mechanisms. Formulas are available at: http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/metadata-compilation/Metadata-Goal-17.pdf

A global aggregate for the indicator is obtained by averaging the three dimensions of alignment with country’s priorities and goals across all new interventions for the reporting year. Formulas are available at: http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/metadata-compilation/Metadata-Goal-17.pdf

This indicator can be used to capture the overall behaviour of development partners in designing new interventions in the country.

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The monitoring exercise collects data beyond the scope of the proposed indicator, including additional aspects such as government of development partners’ engagement in planning project/programme evaluations.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.