OECD Development Assistance Peer Reviews: United States 2011 [electronic resource] /
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Paris : OECD Publishing,
2013.
Every four years, each of the 24 members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Development Programme as observers is scrutinised by its peers in the Committee. Five different member countries are peer reviewed each year. The aim is to assess the extent to which the development policies, strategies and activities of the reviewed country meet the standards set by the DAC. Members provide constructive criticism and recommendations based on a report that touches on aid policies, volumes, institutions and field operations. There are no sanctions if the country fails to take the recommendations on board. The exercise is meant to encourage positive change, support mutual learning and raise the overall effectiveness of aid throughout the donor community.
Acronyms The DAC’s main findings and recommendations Secretariat report Chapter 1. Strategic orientations -A global leader with an ambitious agenda -Strategic orientations: a renewed approach to development -Supporting broad-based economic development -Promoting governance and democracy -Engaging in food security and health as key factors for the MDGs -Preventing and responding to conflict and crisis -Renewing efforts to integrate gender equality and women‟s empowerment -Progress on mainstreaming environment and climate change -Translating priorities into action -Balancing geopolitical and development objectives -Administration and Congress: towards a new partnership? -Communicating and building public awareness and support -Need to build further on public support for development co-operation -Raising development awareness and communicating results are crucial -Future considerations Chapter 2. Development beyond aid  -Policy coherence for development -The national security strategy cannot substitute for a policy coherence for development agenda -Co-ordination mechanisms: a stronger position for USAID -Beyond aid: engaging the private sector -A leader in developing public-private partnerships -A strong lead on anti-corruption -Fragile states: a more integrated approach -Future considerations Chapter 3. Aid Volumes, Channels and Allocations -Official development assistance in summary -The largest donor: moving beyond the quantity debate -The need for more strategy-driven budgeting -Bilateral assistance -A new trend towards good performers: it‟s time to develop a risk strategy for others -Growing support to the poorest and the most fragile countries -Sector allocations and thematic spending decisions -Multilateral assistance: new impetus -Multilateral assistance is growing again -A new commitment to multilateralism -Making more of the comparative advantage of multilateral agencies -Future considerations Chapter 4. Organisation and management -Organisation -A fragmented aid system -Key US aid actors -USAID: from the primary US development agency to the world‟s premier agency -Management -Looking forward: strategic planning and budgeting for results -Rebuilding USAID‟s human resources: a key challenge -Strengthening monitoring and evaluation -Improving engagement with non-government stakeholders -Future considerations Chapter 5. Aid Effectiveness and Results  -The US embraces the aid effectiveness agenda -Bringing all US agencies on board -Working around institutional challenges -US performance against aid effectiveness indicators -Ownership -Aligning with and using country strategies and systems -Building capacity that lasts -Making aid more predictable and transparent -Untying aid: good progress, but more needed -Need to pursue efforts to harmonise work with other donors -Managing for results: accountable to whom? -Future considerations Chapter 6. Humanitarian assistance -Complex humanitarian aid architecture -Policy and principles -Strengthening humanitarian policy would promote more joined-up, holistic responses -A renewed focus on recovery, and some opportunities for improved humanitarian-development linkages -Progress on untying food aid and providing more appropriate food commodities -Partnership and funding approaches -A strong and supportive humanitarian partner in the field, with an increasing global voice -A generous but not always predictable donor, taking some steps to widen the humanitarian donor base -Does national interest drive funding allocations? -Rapid response and the civil-military interface -Rapid, hands-on, effective emergency response -The challenges of partnering with the military -Compliance with counterterrorism measures -Learning and accountability -Making learning more systematic -Managing aid delivery -Future considerations Annex A. Progress since the 2006 DAC Peer Review recommendations Annex B. OECD/DAC standard suite of tables Annex C. Partner country visits to Ghana and Jordan Annex D. Organisation charts and tables Description of key terms Bibliography
Every four years, each of the 24 members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Development Programme as observers is scrutinised by its peers in the Committee. Five different member countries are peer reviewed each year. The aim is to assess the extent to which the development policies, strategies and activities of the reviewed country meet the standards set by the DAC. Members provide constructive criticism and recommendations based on a report that touches on aid policies, volumes, institutions and field operations. There are no sanctions if the country fails to take the recommendations on board. The exercise is meant to encourage positive change, support mutual learning and raise the overall effectiveness of aid throughout the donor community.
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