OECD Development Assistance Peer Reviews: Canada 2012 [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
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. This report assesses the extent to which the development policies, strategies and activities of Canada 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.
List of Acronyms DAC’S Main Findings and Recommendations Chapter 1. Strategic Orientations -A strong reputation in development co-operation -Canada is reforming its aid, but it still needs a clear and consistent vision -A key opportunity to align all Canada’s aid delivery channels around a common approach -Canada needs a strategic approach for mainstreaming cross-cutting issues -Accountability arrangements should be geared towards results and transparency -Future considerations Chapter 2. Development Beyond Aid -The need for greater commitment to policy coherence for development -Progress in using whole-of-government approaches -Future considerations Chapter 3. Aid Volumes, Channels and Allocations -The need to sustain increases in Canada’s ODA volumes -A consolidated system for managing development co-operation -Getting the balance right between bilateral and multilateral channels -Focusing bilateral ODA better -Maintaining large and strategic contributions to the multilateral system -Non-ODA flows -Future considerations Chapter 4. Organisation and Management  -Shared responsibility for Canada’s ODA -Some structural changes since 2007 -Modernising Canada’s development co-operation system -Canada’s evaluation capacity: upgraded and more effective -Making the most of Canada’s development co-operation staff -Future considerations Chapter 5. Aid Effectiveness and Results -A commitment to the principles of effective aid, but a mixed performance in practice -Canada has made progress in some important aid effectiveness areas -Further progress is needed to meet Canada’s aid effectiveness commitments -Future considerations Chapter 6. Humanitarian Assistance -A consistent, yet cautious, humanitarian donor, without a clear strategy -Humanitarian funding -Give CIDA’s solid operational structure greater authority -Monitoring focuses on partner performance, but not yet on Canada’s results or on learning -Future considerations -Bibliography Annex A. Progress Against the 2007 Recommendations Annex B. OECD/DAC Standard Suite of Tables Annex C. Field Visit to Ethiopia Description of Key Terms
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. This report assesses the extent to which the development policies, strategies and activities of Canada 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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