OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Portugal 2022
The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual
members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness
of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending
improvements. Portugal mobilises its whole of government expertise with a strong focus
on partner country ownership. Building on long-standing and close bilateral relations,
it concentrates its funding on countries most in need. Through effective international
advocacy, the country champions triangular co-operation and has fostered agreement
amongst European Union (EU) members on issues such as strengthening Team Europe’s
commitment to human development when it held the Presidency of the EU Council. However,
Portugal can make more out of the wide participation of state and non-state actors
in its development co-operation. This peer review provides a set of recommendations
to improve co-ordination across government, pull bilateral efforts together, focus
more on outcomes and take action to increase official development assistance (ODA).
Available from April 21, 2022Also available in: French, Portuguese
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