OECD Development Assistance Peer Reviews: Greece 2011 [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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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 good time for reform -Modernising Greek development co-operation -Co-ordinating a complex set of institutional players -Transforming the five-year programme into a whole-of-government strategy -Being more strategic about multilateral engagement -Building public support and a constituency for development co-operation -Future considerations Chapter 2. Development beyond aid -Making policies coherent with development objectives -Future considerations Chapter 3. ODA volumes, channels and allocations -Official development assistance in summary -Greece‟s bilateral ODA: limited aid for projects and programmes -Greece‟s multilateral ODA -Aid to and through NGOs: the need for rationalisation -Future considerations Chapter 4. Organisation and management Immediate priorities for making the aid system more unified -Pragmatic actions to make DG Hellenic Aid fit for purpose -Future considerations Chapter 5. Aid effectiveness and results -Greece is committed but not set-up to implement Paris and Accra -Greece tests new more effective ways of delivering aid but this is not systematic -Future considerations Chapter 6. Humanitarian assistance -Consultation is key to ensuring wide buy-in to the new humanitarian framework -Building strategic partnerships should now be a priority -Maximising impact of the humanitarian budget will require clearer allocation criteria -Refine delivery procedures and mechanisms so they are fit for purpose -Future considerations Annex A. Progress since the 2006 DAC peer review recommendations Annex B. OECD/DAC standard suite of 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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