OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Italy 2019

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 approximately once every five 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 and humanitarian assistance activities of the member under review.
Italy is strongly committed to multilateralism, and it uses its convening power as well as expertise in co-operation to make the country a leading voice on issues such as agriculture and cultural heritage. The country’s commitment to leaving no one behind is particularly apparent through the focus on gender and disability. However, the country would benefit from reversing the recent decline in official development assistance (ODA), building a stronger and better-skilled workforce, forming a coherent, whole-of-government approach to migration and development, and creating a system to manage for results.
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Field visit to Senegal
As part of the peer review of Italy, a team of examiners from New Zealand and Spain, and members of the OECD Secretariat, visited Senegal in March 2019. The team met the Italian Ambassador and the director of the office of the Italian Agency for Development Co-operation (AICS), along with their teams, representatives of national authorities in Senegal, other bilateral and multilateral partners, Italian and Senegalese civil society organisations, the private sector and researchers.