Development Co-operation Review of Belgium

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,

Source: OECD Journal on Development, Volume 2, Number 2, August 2001 , pp. 62-135(74)

Publisher: OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Abstract:

The recent reform process is part of the follow-up given by the federal government to the recommendations of the parliamentary monitoring commission set up in response to widespread public criticism of the relevance and effectiveness of Belgian aid. In 1997 the commission put forward a number of recommendations designed to clarify the objectives and basic principles of Belgian co-operation, enhance the management capacity of the aid administration and introduce a separation between policy-making and programme and project implementation. The new law on international co-operation and the measures taken since late 1998 are a response to the recommendations and to the thrust of international consensus on aid. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Secretary for Development Co-operation have maintained until now a separate budget for international co-operation in the Ministry. All these measures are an important step forward in the process of modernising Belgian aid.

Page Count: 74

Document Type: Review article

Publication date: 2001-08-01