Greece has not implemented the 2011 DAC peer review recommendations. It postponed refining and approving draft legislation, and subsequently introducing a five-year programme, to allow for completing an audit of previous projects funded by DG Hellenic Aid. Greece has experienced two crises: a severe economic crisis, which produced significant cuts in the national budget (including official development assistance [ODA]), from which the country is slowly recovering; and a refugee and migrant crisis, whose impact is ongoing.
OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Greece 2019
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Annex A. Progress with implementing the 2011 DAC peer review recommendations
Overall framework for development co-operation
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To build a sound basis for a new, effective aid system and programme, Greece should: |
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To achieve a unified, coherent and effective development cooperation system and programme, Greece should: |
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Development beyond aid
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To ensure that all government policies support, or at least do not undermine development objectives, Greece should: |
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Aid volumes, channels and allocations
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To allocate its aid resources strategically, and to maximise the overall value of these flows, Greece should: |
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To focus its aid and make it more effective, Greece should: |
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Organisation and management
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To make DG Hellenic Aid fit for purpose, Greece should: |
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To improve development co-operation capacity and expertise despite DG Hellenic Aid’s constrained context, Greece should: |
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More effective aid and achieving results
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To deliver on its commitments to deliver aid following the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action, Greece should: |
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Humanitarian assistance
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To promote more coherent and strategic programming, Greece should finalise its legal framework and cross-government strategic plan for humanitarian assistance. This will also require: |
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To support its new humanitarian framework and deliver coherent programming, Greece should: |
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Figure A.1. Greece’s implementation of 2011 peer review recommendations
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