2008 DAC Report on Multilateral Aid

The report provides a snapshot of the multilateral aid architecture, from the funding of multilateral organisations by DAC members to their own multilateral aid strategies and policies. The report also highlights issues such as fragmentation, multilateral effectiveness, reform processes and partner country views.


Multilateral aid accounts for over a third of total official development aid. The scale at which the multilateral system is used reflects donors’ views of it as an important aid channel. This report on multilateral aid aims to address this gap.

Table of Contents
Acronyms
Executive Summary
Chapter 1. Background
Chapter 2. Multilateral Aid at a Glance
Historical trends in multilateral aid
Allocations to multilateral agencies
Gross disbursements and credit reflows
Total use of the multilateral system
Use of the multilateral system by non-DAC countries
Chapter 3. Multilateral Aid Policies of DAC Donors
Multilateral partners
Multilateral strategies
Managing multilateral assistance
DAC peer review and other national review recommendations for multilateral engagement
Allocation and scaling up of multilateral aid
Chapter 4. Bilateral and Multilateral Allocations
Geographical distribution of ODA
Distribution of ODA by income of partner country
Distribution of ODA by sector
Multilateral aid to health and infrastructure
Multilateral allocation systems
Chapter 5. International Organisations that Receive ODA
Proliferation of organisations .
From the global to the tiny
Agriculture, livestock and fisheries organisations 0
Chapter 6. Multilateral Fragmentation and Opportunities for Better Division of Labour
Multilateral concentration and fragmentation at the global level
Multilateral concentration and fragmentation at partner country level
In-country division of labour
Reflections on division of labour among multilateral organisations
Chapter 7. Multilateral Aid Effectiveness
Paris Declaration – Are the multilaterals on track?
Multilateral Organisations Performance Assessment Network (MOP AN)
Internal performance monitoring in multilateral organisations
Common Performance Assessment System (COMPAS)
IFAD report on development effectiveness 5
Bilateral agency assessments of multilateral organisation effectiveness
Further reflections on assessment tools
Chapter 8. Partner Country Views on Multilateral Organisations 92
Perceptions of multilateral performance
Reflections on partner country views
Chapter 9. Reforms in the Multilateral System
“Delivering as One”: United Nations at the country level
Reforming the Bretton Woods institutions11
Reforms in regional development banks
External aid management reform in the European Commission
Reflections on multilateral reforms
Appendix. DAC Donors’ Multilateral Aid: Trends and Policy
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
European Commission
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

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