OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Denmark 2021
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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements.
Denmark’s development co‑operation is integrated into its foreign policy. Broad political and public support enables Denmark to provide 0.7% of its national income as official development assistance. Denmark champions gender equality, human rights and democracy, supports transparent communication and empowers its partners. Climate change and irregular migration shape Denmark’s approach to development co-operation. Mainstreaming climate objectives would complement Denmark’s significant investments in climate diplomacy. A global leader in fragile contexts, Denmark could better implement the peace component of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. The Doing Development Differently approach enables flexible budgets and trusting partnerships. Denmark could better integrate poverty reduction across its programme.
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Executive summary
The 2021 peer review of Denmark, conducted by Austria and Finland, considers Denmark’s commitments, achievements and opportunities in four areas: climate action, working across the humanitarian-development-peace agendas, Doing Development Differently, and embedding poverty, rights and the leave no one behind principle. A number of systemic issues relating to these four areas are considered in this report. Additional information on Denmark’s policies, institutional arrangements, finance and management systems is included in a snapshot of Denmark’s development co-operation and the Development Co‑operation Profile of Denmark. In addition to presenting a set of DAC recommendations for Denmark, this report assesses implementation of the 2016 peer review recommendations: The review finds that Denmark has taken steps to address all of the DAC’s recommendations, with 7 of the 18 recommendations now fully implemented.
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