1. In order to make the most of its expertise and resources, Slovenia should focus its bilateral development co‑operation on a few priority countries within its priority regions of the Western Balkans, European neighbourhood and sub‑Saharan Africa.
2. Slovenia should ensure multilateral contributions are focused on a narrow set of partners based on development co-operation priorities – notably on least developed countries (LDCs), environment and gender equality – and ensure predictability in its contributions.
3. Slovenia should make progress towards multi‑year funding and transition to fewer, larger projects with key multilaterals and implementing institutions.
4. Slovenia should develop and implement an action plan to reach an ODA to GNI ratio of 0.33% by 2030, aligned with its commitments and ambitions, by:
a. actively engaging all ministries to enable informed decisions on areas of ODA growth
b. strengthening communications on results to create a compelling narrative on development co‑operation
c. enhancing efforts to boost public and political support for development co-operation in the medium and long term, including through global education.
5. To improve the coherence and predictability of development co-operation, Slovenia should increase cross‑government co-ordination, notably through the strategic use of four‑year framework programmes.
6. Given the large volume of imputed student costs, Slovenia should assess the impacts of fee waivers in partner countries to inform coherent decision making on the best ways to support education systems.
7. To enhance the quality of its development co‑operation programme, the MFEA should:
a. ensure progress on cross‑cutting priorities by implementing environmental guidelines, building and leveraging Slovenia’s expertise on environmental topics, and strengthening gender mainstreaming by raising awareness and enabling capacity building for partners
b. use SDG‑linked outcome indicators for key thematic priorities
c. strengthen evaluation capacity, building on the recent adoption of an evaluation plan.
8. Slovenia should consolidate its human resources in development co-operation by adopting a strategic workforce plan, and the MFEA should create a specialised and recognised career path, and explore hiring of local staff in key embassies.
9. The MFEA should engage in selected additional strategic partnerships in development, awareness raising and global education and support the capacity, stability and impact of NGOs.
10. Slovenia should strengthen its NGO-private sector partnerships mechanism to make it more attractive for all partners and analyse the additionality and sustainability of current private sector initiatives undertaken by various stakeholders to inform decisions about potential new instruments.