OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews
This peer review shows that Germany invests in fair and sustainable globalisation and a rules-based multilateral order. It provided 0.73% of its national income as official development assistance in 2020. The country is adjusting its engagement with Africa and reforming the way it delivers developme...
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- The DAC's recommendations to Germany
- Findings from the 2021 Development Co-operation Peer Review of Germany (Infographic)
- The DAC's main findings and recommendations
- Sustainability drives Germany's approach to development co-operation
- Germany believes that fair and sustainable globalisation delivered through a rules-based multilateral order is critical for peace, freedom and security in the world
- German development co-operation draws on a broad range of instruments and involves a diverse group of partners
- Germany can build on its achievements
- Systematic analysis of potential incoherence with sustainable development objectives would help Germany to address spillover effects of domestic policies on developing countries
- Building on strong public support, BMZ could extend its existing cross-ministerial efforts to develop a vision for more effective German development co-operation
- Investing at all levels in gender equality and focusing on leaving no one behind would enhance German development co-operation
- Embedding a culture of results and investing more in strategic evaluations would enable Germany to continuously improve its development co-operation
- Current efforts on complementarity would benefit from better delineation of short-term and long-term engagement in crises
- While locally employed staff are highly valued by Germany and its partners and report high job satisfaction, the system would benefit from their greater involvement
- Germany needs to address challenges
- Increasing delegation of authority to embassies and country offices and publishing country strategies remain challenging for Germany, but would demonstrate that it responds to partners' needs
- Secretariat's report
- Secretariat's report.
- 1 Germany's global efforts for sustainable development
- Efforts to support global sustainable development
- Germany is well-positioned to influence global sustainable development
- Germany is driving implementation of sustainable development and climate action
- Greater ambition and more effective architecture would improve sustainability
- Germany strives for fair and sustainable globalisation
- Promoting global public goods and addressing global challenges
- Policy coherence for sustainable development
- Institutional mechanisms for addressing incoherent policies could be more effective
- Progress is being made in some shared policy areas that impact sustainable development
- More could be done to address spillover effects on developing countries
- Global awareness
- German citizens have positive views about development co-operation
- Awareness and development education could focus more on changing behaviour
- References
- Notes
- 2 Germany's policy vision and framework
- Framework
- Germany's development co-operation is centred on the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement
- The BMZ 2030 reform strategy provides a long-term focus on global public goods and German expertise, allowing for new political initiatives that are consistent with the 2030 Agenda
- Principles and guidance
- Guidance on cross-cutting issues is made available, but Germany should assess the impact of programmes on the wide range of quality criteria
- Germany should continue to invest at all levels in gender equality and poverty reduction and inequality
- Basis for decision making
- Germany presents a clear rationale for how to engage at different levels
- German development co-operation is provided by a diverse group of autonomous partners and members of civil society
- Multilateral co-operation
- References
- Notes.
- 3 Germany's financing for development
- Overall ODA volume
- Germany has provided over USD 20 billion in ODA annually since 2016 and reached 0.73% ODA-to-GNI target in 2020
- While Germany has increased ODA investment in least developed countries, these still fall short of international commitments and there is a risk contributions may decrease
- Germany's financial and technical co-operation adapts to partner country contexts
- Bilateral ODA allocations
- Bilateral ODA more than doubled in volume since 2010, with the largest increases to the Middle East and the African continent
- Germany's share of aid spent in partner countries is increasing, as is support for policy reforms and budget support
- Germany could strengthen the focus on gender equality across its programming, building on good work on environment and climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Multilateral ODA allocations
- Germany is a strong multilateralist and very significant multilateral donor and partner
- Germany is broadening its multilateral support to new players and has increased its core contributions to UN funds and programmes
- Financing for sustainable development
- Germany has many financial sector instruments at its disposal, and could leverage these more
- Germany has the architecture and instruments to further support domestic resource mobilisation
- More detailed reporting by KfW DEG is welcome, but further transparency is desirable
- References
- Notes
- 4 Germany's structure and systems
- Authority, mandate and co-ordination
- A dedicated ministry for development co-operation focuses attention on sustainability, migration and development co-operation in the German political agenda
- Germany faces ongoing challenges in ensuring a whole-of-government approach.
- BMZ has a leadership and oversight role for the four official German implementing organisations
- Germany has stepped up co-ordination on development issues at several levels
- Systems
- Germany is working towards reducing bureaucracy
- Germany balances the need for compliance in its system with broadening its risk management efforts to make a stronger contribution to improving the operating environment in partner countries
- Germany's leadership is committed to supporting innovation and digitalisation across its development co-operation
- Capabilities throughout the system
- Germany has a broad range of highly skilled staff to manage and deliver its development co-operation
- Considering greater delegation of authority to the field and re-thinking the division of labour could facilitate more effective steering of the German portfolio in partner countries
- Increasing budgets, topics and responsibilities have taken a toll on BMZ staff
- National staff in German development co-operation ensure a sound understanding of the local contexts and constant dialogue with different development stakeholders
- References
- Notes
- 5 Germany's delivery modalities and partnerships
- Effective partnerships
- Germany could make better use of its diverse development co-operation partners
- Germany could step up its funding to CSOs, including to local CSOs in partner countries, and reduce bureaucratic hurdles
- Through a diverse set of mechanisms and instruments, Germany facilitates private sector engagement in partner countries
- As a strong supporter of multilateralism and EU joint programming and a key partner in triangular co-operation, Germany opts for joint approaches where possible
- Germany has increased its transparency and accountability
- Country-level engagement.
- Rethinking the form and content of its country strategies would enable Germany to move towards a coherent, German approach and increase transparency and accountability
- A strong supporter of development effectiveness, Germany could facilitate greater partner ownership
- Germany's predictability and forward planning are strong
- Germany has a broad range of instruments at its disposal to respond flexibly to partner countries' demands, with the COVID-19 response a good example to build on
- Germany links the disbursement of ODA funds to the reform priorities of its six Africa reform partners
- References
- Notes
- 6 Germany's results, evaluation and learning
- Management for development results
- Germany contributes to the 2030 Agenda and aligns with partner countries' priorities
- Results management is being extended from projects to portfolios
- Further work is required to improve results-based management and embed a results culture within German development co-operation
- Evaluation system
- Germany's evaluation capability is strong and respected
- The evaluation function is independent, but management responses to evaluations often lack specificity
- Evaluation capacity is being strengthened in partner countries
- Institutional learning
- Networks exist for knowledge sharing and learning in sectoral and thematic areas
- Knowledge management is challenging in the complex German system
- References
- Notes
- 7 Germany's fragility, crises and humanitarian assistance
- 7.A Crises and fragility
- Strategic framework
- Germany is an active and efficient broker for global peace efforts
- Germany has aligned its strategic framework to its vision for peace
- Germany's ODA is not primarily mobilised towards fragile contexts
- Germany is engaged in many fragile contexts beyond just its nexus and peace partners.
- Effective programme design and instruments.
