Aid effectiveness
Canada: Development Assistance Committee peer review
Is Canada an effective development donor?
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Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2007
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development undertakes regular peer reviews on the practices of member countries' development policies and practices. This report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and makes recommendations for improvement.
The report highlights the following strengths of Canada’s ODA:
- a renewed commitment to Africa
- a promising approach towards fragile states, such as Haiti and Afghanistan
- initiatives to make Canadian aid more effective, focusing on accountability and explaining results to the Canadian public and parliament
- strong commitment to good humanitarian donorship (GHD)
The report also highlights challenges for Canadian ODA, including:
- strengthening the mandate for development co-operation and for CIDA, while addressing some of the agency’s fundamental structural issues
- producing a policy for development co-operation which focuses on reducing poverty
- articulating an approach to policy coherence for development
- continuing to increase aid to meet Canada’s commitments made at Monterrey conference on financing development
- focusing its aid on fewer partner countries in order to generate stronger impact and voice
- galvanising the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
The report argues that these challenges must be met if Canada’s performance is to match its ambition to become a leading player in the donor community.
