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OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: United Kingdom 2020

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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts reviews of the individual development co‑operation efforts of DAC members once every five to six years. DAC peer reviews critically examine the overall performance of a given member, not just that of its development co‑operation agency, covering its policy, programmes and systems. 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. The United Kingdom uses its global standing and convening power to promote an evidence-based approach to stability, inclusion and prosperity and continues to provide 0.7% of its national income as Official Development Assistance (ODA). The depth and breadth of its expertise, combined with flexible funding instruments and strong country presence, allow the United Kingdom to focus these ODA resources on developing country needs, while protecting its own longer-term national interests. Articulating a clear and comprehensive whole-of-government vision for its support to international development would allow the United Kingdom to reinforce its policy priorities and engage the public. Further measures to build effective partnerships and institutional capacity in developing countries would allow the United Kingdom to build ownership of development processes and contribute to lasting change.

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The United Kingdom’s delivery modalities and partnerships

This chapter looks at the principles that guide the United Kingdom’s partnership approach across its development portfolio, and how it uses its financial, diplomatic and technical resources in its global engagement and in partner countries. It assesses whether the approach and principles are consistent with the United Kingdom’s development co-operation policy and international commitments on development effectiveness: i.e. ownership of development priorities by developing countries; a focus on results; inclusive development partnerships; and transparency and mutual accountability.The chapter first considers the United Kingdom’s development co-operation partnerships with a range of actors, assessing whether they embody the development effectiveness principles. It then explores whether the United Kingdom’s work in partner countries is in keeping with effective development co-operation principles.

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