OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. A DAC member since only 2016, Hungary has achieved impressive growth in its official development assistance (ODA).
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009724733906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Annual average exchange rate: 1 USD = HUF
- Executive summary
- The DAC's recommendations to Hungary
- Findings and recommendations
- Introduction and context
- Introduction
- Hungary's domestic context: Opportunities to enhance development co-operation in a shifting external environment
- Since joining the DAC, Hungary has invested continuously in development co-operation
- The external environment presents both opportunities and risks
- Policy framework and financing: ODA has expanded significantly in line with priorities
- Guidance would help operationalise the legal and political foundations of Hungary's co-operation
- Hungary has established a solid legal and policy basis for its co-operation
- The next key step would be to develop implementation guidance
- ODA growth has been impressive
- planning and reporting could be improved
- ODA has increased fourfold since 2010
- Hungary faces challenges in planning and reporting ODA
- ODA allocations are aligned with priorities but dispersed across countries and projects
- Hungary has increased bilateral ODA for its priority sectors and regions
- …But allocations are geographically dispersed across many projects
- The development co-operation system: Hungary has many opportunities to deepen institutional and stakeholder collaboration
- Hungary's reorganisation could increase the effectiveness and efficiency of its development co-operation
- The various actors and instruments are not fully co-ordinated
- The reorganisation and enhanced role of the agency can strengthen the capacity and co-ordination of the co-operation system
- Hungary could do more on systematic stakeholder and public consultation and greater development awareness
- Hungary can gain from more systematic consultation with stakeholders.
- Reviewing the narrative on development co-operation should accompany Hungary's communication efforts
- Building on substantial progress in formal education, Hungary could partner more with civil society to raise development awareness
- As important partners, CSOs would gain from better and more transparent funding
- The government works actively with Hungarian and partner country CSOs, but funding could be more flexible and reliable
- Hungary could gain from greater transparency over funding opportunities for CSOs
- Bilateral co-operation: Hungary can focus more on impact
- Bilateral partnerships rely on close consultation but do not focus on strategic or longer-term impact
- Partner countries value Hungary for its responsiveness to needs
- However, Hungary needs to consider how it can move from individual projects to longer-term strategic country partnerships
- Hungary is missing opportunities to strengthen the development results of its interventions
- Hungary invests in co-operation partnerships with DAC and emerging donors
- Further efforts are needed to make Hungary fit for fragility
- Hungary draws on instruments across government to respond to crises
- Making progress on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus is a priority for Hungary
- Hungary's partnerships with faith-based organisations have the potential to support conflict prevention, in line with a nexus approach
- Scholarships' important role will require an evaluation of their development impact
- The large scholarship programme for students from developing countries could be more inclusive
- Evaluating the scholarship programmes could help Hungary to track and enhance their development impact
- Internal systems: Continued investments will strengthen co-operation
- Drawing systematically on a broader range of expertise would strengthen project quality assurance.
- New risk management mechanisms need to be deployed systematically
- Hungary has taken steps to manage risks within its development co-operation
- Guidance and awareness raising would help ensure comprehensive and effective risk management
- Results management and evaluation do not yet capture impact
- Significant efforts to track project results also need to encompass outcomes and impact
- As already highlighted when it joined the DAC, Hungary needs to introduce evaluations to improve its development co-operation
- Building on its learning efforts, Hungary could invest further in knowledge management across government
- Building and maintaining skills need to be priorities for human resource management
- Building on a young and dedicated team, the reorganisation provides opportunities to address human resource challenges
- Policy tensions: Balancing domestic and global development objectives requires attention
- Hungary increasingly engages with the private sector but needs to progressively untie its grants and loans
- Hungary's private sector engagement is focused on promoting Hungarian companies
- Hungary needs to progressively untie its grants and loans
- Promoting responsible business conduct and maximising the development impact of FDI are essential as trade with developing countries increases
- Focusing its international advocacy on its strengths could enhance Hungary's contribution to global goods and challenges
- Hungary can make valuable contributions to international dialogue on development
- Hungary is an engaged partner for multilateral institutions, providing reliable funding
- However, domestic policies affect Hungary's international engagement - an important challenge for the 2024 EU presidency
- Hungary could build on domestic strengths to promote policy coherence for development.
- Establishing clear priorities would help Hungary seize opportunities to advance debate on policy coherence issues
- Hosting Ukrainian refugees is an opportunity to reflect on Hungary's approach to migration and development
- References
- Notes
- Annex A. Organisations consulted during the peer review
- Government and public institutions in Hungary
- Partners.
