OECD Support Portugal to reinforce the policy of Public Aid to Development – Economy
Public Development Assistance (ODA) needs greater strategic coordination between ministries, increased focus on results, and reinforcement of its amounts, according to the latest Review of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, released this Thursday.
The Cooperation Review for the Ministry of Development for the Organization of Cooperation (OECD) and Development Peers by Germany and Hungary, opens the work coordinated by Germany and Hungary, opens the joint between the departments for programming, budgeting, the design of guidelines and monitoring of the evaluation and evaluation process” of its DPA, according to the text of the report presented today by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Francisco André, and by the CAD, Susanna Moorehead, in Lisbon.
The possibility of implementation, through an increased capacity, is already established between 2011 and 2015, in the period in Portugal. troika intervention.
“Portugal has not managed to recover from the crisis, its ODA volume has not yet reached the past performance, nor that of its CAD peers”. OECD, suggesting that “increased resources strengthen in-house capacity and enable programmatic collaboration across ministries”.
“To increase ODA awareness, Portugal will have to invest in the intervention of specific agents, in an inter-ministerial communication effort and in instruments to plan the future and allow debate”, reinforce the examination.
Portuguese ODA compared to the country’s Gross National Income (GNI) data, according to preliminary data, ranks 23rd among the 29 DAC countries, with US$385 million (€352.8 million) registered in 2020, or be 0.17% of GNI, a value that compares with 0.32% of the CAD average.
The report also suggests continuing to delegate skills at the level of programming and execution that Portugal responsibilities that they are capable of fulfilling, and recognizing that their creation “was an important step” towards more localized decision-making, complementing the exercises to increase and capacities and competences in partner countries”.
The OECD also called for a stronger focus of Portuguese ODA on results. “The definition of the expected effects, in addition to the (more) immediate results, production of benefits for the determination of Portugal’s cooperation”,
“Portugal must integrate the programs of expected results in the design of projects and by country in monitoring, in an integrated way, contribute and follow-up the estimates jointly with all projects and by country carried out; (…) and ensure the allocation of sufficient resources to independent management in the results”, the review emphasizes.
On the other hand, Portuguese cooperation benefits from a close relationship with the European Union, so Portugal must “pursue its agenda of internal reforms”, which “will be important to guarantee all the benefits of delegated cooperation”.
The OECD highlights that “the high amounts of internal cooperation delegated to the presence of Portugal as partners, at the same time boosting reform exercises and making cooperation for development politically visible”.
But, if the under the new EU budget offers opportunities to work on its strengths, the managing country should reinforce the internal reform, which the challenges of EU promotion will offer to EU “meet your strengths” projects. “.
Once again, defining cooperation with Portuguese cooperation and Portuguese cooperation, reinforces no.
To meet its commitments, and with public deadlines, with defined objectives, to increase the increase and with public deadlines, with defined objectives, to increase the increase and with public deadlines, with defined objectives, to increase growth and with the goals, adopt to the goals. development, suggests the OECD.
The also points out the need for an organization to “maximize” the involvement of the private sector in Portuguese ODA, suggesting that the country assess how its country instruments can “better contribute to sustainable development in partners and increase cooperation with international partners”. , development finance institutions”.
“Portugal must also ensure that its exercises in the internationalization of the Portuguese economy contribute to the impact on development and do not hamper progress in the unwinding of its ODA”, the report states.