OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Ireland 2020
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts periodic reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts of DAC members. The policies and programmes of each DAC member are critically examined once every five to six years. 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 activities of the member under review and its approach to fragility, crisis and humanitarian assistance.
Ireland is a strong voice for sustainable development. Quality partnerships with civil society, staunch support for multilateralism and good humanitarian donorship are hallmarks of its development co-operation. The vision and ambition of its 2019 international development policy, A Better World, requires Ireland to increase its official development assistance as planned, develop guidance and a new results management approach, and undertake strategic workforce planning.
Field visit to Ethiopia
As part of the peer review of Ireland, a team of reviewers from Australia and Slovenia and members of the OECD Secretariat visited Ethiopia in October 2019. They met the team of the Irish embassy in Ethiopia, the Irish ambassador to Tanzania, representatives of national authorities, bilateral and multilateral partners, Ethiopian and Irish civil society organisations, the private sector, and researchers.