Projects

Short Description:

Overall goal

Contribute to the Development of Non-Member Economies.

As identified by Mathias Cormann in the Secretary-General’s PWB Guidance, the OECD "will strengthen our contribution to key UN agendas, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development; the renewed Beijing + 25 Declaration and Platform for Action; the Paris Agreement; the Convention on Biological Diversity”.

Expected results

Excerpt from PWB 2021-2022:

Awareness/Understanding

- DAC members are better informed about, and managing, corruption risks in development

- DAC members are better informed about and actively program to prevent illicit financial flows (IFF) in development.

- Structured dialogue is enhanced with emerging economies, emerging donors, and with partner countries (e.g. LDCs and MICs).

- strengthened contribution of members’ policies and practices towards attaining the SDGs at country level.

- Stronger capabilities and collaboration on innovative policies, partnerships and practices in development co-operation lead to better, quicker, and smarter development results in line with the 2030 Agenda.

- Members are better informed about effective development co-operation strategies for supporting climate change adaptation governance.

Usage

- DAC members and developing countries are equipped with a comprehensive measure of sustainable development financing.

- DAC Members’ efforts to more effectively mobilise private finance and deliver development impact are supported. Output Result(s) 1.

- Development co-operation providers are better equipped to learn, and are held accountable, resulting in more effective development co-operation.

- DAC members are better equipped to measure and increase the impact of their development co-operation programmes, in line with the 2030 Agenda,

- Members and partners are engaging more effectively in triangular co-operation to mainstream this modality across their development co-operation programmes.

- DAC members are better equipped to make tangible progress on the pledge to leave no-one behind

- DAC Members are able to implement more systematic, accelerated action and deliver results based on commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment

- DAC members are better equipped to support partner countries to reduce inequalities and exclusion through effective, inclusive and accountable governance

- Development co-operation effectively promotes environmental sustainability and the preservation and sustainable use of natural capital and supports developing countries’ climate-resilient, low-emissions development pathways.

- Increased value for money for MOPAN members in gathering information to meet domestic accountability requirements

Effects

- The integrity of ODA is maintained to hold members accountable for their ODA commitments including through the monitoring of members’ compliance with ODA rules and recommendations

- Strengthened engagement with key stakeholders, including for the establishment of a governance arrangement for the Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD).

- DAC members improve their results and development co-operation effectiveness in fragile and crisis contexts, including through the implementation of the DAC Recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus.

The OECD-hosted Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) reassures stakeholders across the multilateral system that multilateral organisations are being held accountable for operating effectively, efficiently, and within their comparative advantage. Through its institutional assessments and policy related work, MOPAN contributes to an enhanced understanding of the multilateral system.

The contribution earmarked for Gendernet (EUR 300.000) will contribute to the following Output Results of the OECD DAC Programme of Work and Budget 2021-2022:

Output Result 9. “Gender Equality & Women’s empowerment: Evidence, collective learning, policy guidance and monitoring of ODA and common influencing on gender equality”:

• 9.1 – GENDERNET: Policy network for peer learning, policy guidance and common influencing on gender equality and women’s empowerment including analytical report on ODA for gender equality, and joint work with the International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) on gender equality in conflict and fragile affected situations (Foundational output)

• 9.2 – Financing for gender equality: 1 Analytical report on the gender equality aspects of the financing for development agenda (Optional output)

• 9.3 – Women’s Economic Empowerment: Policy Dialogue and guidelines (Optional output)

Target group / Beneficiaries

The PWB outputs are targeted at the national and regional decisions makers in development policy. This primarily includes ministerial departments and development cooperation agencies of the DAC member states as well as multilateral organisations and international civil society organisations. As such, the DAC’s PWB is a common service of collective benefit to the 36 DAC members and to the international development community writ large, with top publication downloads of flagship publications such as the annual Development Co-operation Report. According to the number of downloads estimated, at least 30.000 people will benefit

Activities

Activities in 2021 and 2022 are deduced from the expected results and rotate around five main challenges:

1. Mobilising and aligning finance for the 2030 Agenda;

2. Making development co-operation more effective, impactful and inclusive including through partnerships and innovation;

3. Preventing and addressing fragility and crises;

4. Tackling poverty and inequalities, achieving gender equality, and enabling inclusive governance in order to leave no one behind; and

5. Promoting climate objectives and sustainable management and use of natural capital.

Context

This is a voluntary contribution from the Austrian Development Cooperation to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD in order to strengthen the DAC’s effort for the 2030 Agenda. Austria further contributes particularly through its active involvement in several working parties of the DAC (Environet, Gendernet, INCAF, Govnet, Statistics and Evaluation) to the development, promotion and implementation of effective development co-operation policies.