“Australia uses its voice on the global stage to advocate for responses to challenges faced by small island developing states, in particular to build resilience and mitigate disaster risk. At the same time the decline in aid flows, despite steady economic growth, has affected the scope of development and humanitarian programmes, and we encourage Australia to find a way to reverse this trend,” said OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Chair Charlotte Petri Gornitzka.
Read more“Setting out a clear plan and a detailed timeline to increase aid flows over the next decade would help Korea’s officials and development partners in their planning and could prevent what may look like a diminished level of ambition affecting Korea’s ability to meet its international commitments,” said DAC Chair Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, presenting the Review in Seoul. “Korea puts more focus than the average donor on supporting the least developed countries, but it also needs to plan for ODA growth.”
Read morePresentation for civil society organisations on OECD DAC peer reviews.
Read morePeer reviews provide in-depth examinations of development systems and policies, including lessons learned, in all DAC member countries.
Consult all reviewsThe OECD DAC conducts periodic reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts of its 29 members. The objectives of DAC peer reviews are to improve the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation policies and systems, and to promote good development partnerships for better impact on poverty reduction and sustainable development in developing countries. DAC peer reviews assess the performance of a given member, not just that of its development co-operation agency, and examine both policy and implementation. They take an integrated, system-wide perspective on the development co-operation and humanitarian assistance activities of the member under review. |
How peer reviews workEach DAC member country is peer reviewed roughly every five years with two main aims: to help the country understand where it could improve its development strategy and structures so that it can increase the effectiveness of its investment; and to identify and share good practice in development policy and strategy. Led by examiners from two DAC member states, the process typically takes around six months to complete and culminates with the publication of the findings. |
Lessons from peer reviewsWhat are countries doing to fulfill their development co-operation objectives and public commitments? Drawing on lessons from our peer reviews, we produce a range of publications that look at different aspects of this question. Managing Aid: Practices of DAC Member Countries is one example. Another is Effective Aid Management: Twelve Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews, designed to help aid practitioners improve their management and delivery of development assistance by learning from each others' experience. More recently, we have introduced an in-depth, thematic, peer learning process across DAC members. The first such exercise was on private sector engagement, to learn lessons from experience on how to work effectively with and through the private sector in development co-operation. |