Presentation made by Quentin de Roquefeuil and Jeske van Seters for the Working Group on Agricultural Policies and Markets Meeting, OECD Conference Centre, 23 May 2013

1. What, why and how – initial
thoughts based on a literature
review
Quentin de Roquefeuil & Jeske van Seters
23 May 2013, OECD Conference Centre
Working Group on Agricultural Policies and Markets Meeting
Development of a
methodology for country-
level assessments of PCD
impacts on food security:

2. 1. What the methodology is about
2. Key lessons from the literature review
3. Initial ideas on the methodology
4. Questions for discussion
Structure of the Presentation
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3. 1. What the methodology is about

4. • Non-development policies of OECD member
countries (e.g. agriculture, trade,
investment, science) can have an impact on
developing countries
• 2008 OECD Ministerial declaration confirmed
commitment to promote Policy Coherence for
Development
• The declaration included the resolution to
further invest in measuring the effects of
OECD members’ policies on international
development objectives.
Context
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Measuring PCD
= one of the key OECD PCD building blocks

6. • PCD section in ex-ante impact assessments
of OECD member countries’ policy proposals
• PCD section in OECD DAC Peer Reviews
- assessing PCD commitments, institutional
mechanisms, efforts to improve development
financing beyond aid,…
• Ex-post assessments of OECD policy impact
at developing country level
Different ways to measure PCD
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7. General objective: to develop a methodology for
identifying and assessing the impacts of OECD
policies on food security in individual developing
countries
Specific objectives:
1. Help OECD DAC members in pursuing their PCD
policy objectives through providing evidence for
policy change domestically and for programme
design at country level
(e.g. more information to address trade-offs between internal
goals & negative externalities on developing countries)
2. Enable partner countries and civil society
advocate for improved PCD and to address the
impacts of incoherencies.
Objectives
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OECD policies
(domestic, aid,
bilateral/
international)
Developing
country’s food
system
(e.g. prices,
functioning of
markets)
Developing
country’s food
security
situation
International
rules and
regulations
Developing
country’s policy
priorities
Focus of the assessment

9. Steps to develop the methodology

10. 2. The literature review

11. Objectives
• Review of different studies attempting to
determine effect of OECD policies on developing
countries (NGOs, academia, etc).
• Focus on the methodology used in the studies.
• Assess general robustness of findings.
• See whether we could incorporate some aspects
of their methodology into ours, and draw some
general lessons.
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12. • How did we select the studies?
1. Assess impact at individual developing country level
(not aggregate).
2. Focus on a clearly identifiable policy or instrument
emanating from one or several OECD countries (no
general concepts, e.g. “neoliberalism”,
“protectionism”).
3. Sample should cover wide range of data collection
methods and analytical approaches (try to get as
many approaches as possible in the sample).
Sample selection
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13. Overview of data collection methods & analytical frameworks
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14. 1. Some studies tweak the methodology (e.g.
selection of interviewees) to get to the results.
2. Need to define early what is it exactly that is
being impacted on (deconstruct “food security”).
3. Deductive approach works well.
4. Country selection criteria?
5. Need to be clear about the period being covered
by the analysis.
6. We can (and should) combine data collection
methods (e.g. interviews/quantitative data) and
analytical approaches (e.g. modeling/ value
chain analysis) at different stages in the
analysis/process.
What did we learn?
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15. 7. Developing country policies and characteristics
(net food import/export, social policies,
governance) deserve to be at centre stage
because they exert a large influence on impact.
8. Disaggregation between social groups poses
data availability problems.
9. Local stakeholder involvement can go beyond
interviews. But risk of “capture” needs to be
managed.
What did we learn (cont’d)
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16. 3. Initial ideas on the methodology:
guiding principles and main steps

17. • Stakeholder involvement
• Deductive reasoning
• Disaggregation between social groups
• Triangulation (through use of mix of data
collection methods and analytical approaches)
Guiding Principles
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18. 1. Country selection
2. Clarify the ‘baseline’
(through internationally accepted quantitative and
qualitative indicators of the food security system)
3. Identify OECD policies impacting on the food
security system through desk review
4. In-country testing of hypotheses
5. Dissemination and use of the findings
Main Steps
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19. 4. Questions for discussion

20. 1. How can the methodology be most
effective for informing OECD countries’
policymaking?
2. What are your views on the key guiding
principles and steps of the methodology?
3. How do we manage the tradeoff between
user-friendliness and depth?
4. How to insure inclusiveness while
avoiding interest group capture?
Questions for Discussion
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21. Thank you for your
kind attention.
Quentin de Roquefeuil qd@ecdpm.org
Jeske van Seters jvs@ecdpm.org
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