agreed commitments on aid effectiveness, including the New SADC/ICP Partnership. 34. ICPs commit to: Provide timely, transparent and comprehensive information on aid flows so as to enable SADC Secretariat to present comprehensive budget reports to its Member States. STRUCTURE FOR DIALOGUE UNDER THE NEW PARTNERSHIP 35. SADC and ICPs commit to: A constructive, comprehensive, open and structured dialogue at technical, policy and political levels as follows. LEVEL 1: MINISTERIAL/CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE 35. 36. Dialogue at Ministerial level for both SADC and ICPs: This will provide a high level guidance to the decision making entities of SADC and the ICPs and the current Consultative Conference will facilitate such dialogue. The mandate of the Group would include: (a) Specifying the issues where, from time to time, political decisions about partnership may be required from SADC and the ICPs, and to transmit these issues, with the Group’s guiding comments, through to the relevant fora (the Council of Ministers and/or Summit for SADC, and individual governments, the DAC, and other bodies of the ICPs); (b) Spelling out the implications of changing political ideas for the scope of partnership, and ensure that cooperation modalities remain in harmony with a shifting environment; and (c) Informing both the political authorities and the policy/technical level groups in SADC/ICPs of new policy approaches, and their possible implications for the subject areas/themes of development cooperation, and the forms of support (financial and otherwise) which might be available and consistent with new approaches. Documentation and backup support for the Group’s work would come through inputs from SADC Secretariat, development cooperation Ministries (or their equivalents) in ICP countries, and international agencies concerned with development. The Group would therefore act as a powerful filter of political and policy information, shaped in relation to emerging changes in the SADC region. LEVEL 2: JOINT SADC-ICP TASK FORCE 37. The Joint SADC-ICP Task Force (JTF) will provide a mechanism that operates as links between top-level political decision makers and the groups which work on the ground in key thematic areas, help to ensure effective utilization of resources, and address implementation bottlenecks. SADC’s participation in this Group will include the 9