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Spain – aid at a glance
Acronyms
The DAC’S main findings and recommendations
	Overview
	Overall framework for development co-operation
		Narrowing the scope of Spanish co-operation
		Developing a policy for working with civil society
		Improving accountability: preparing for tougher economic times
	Promoting development beyond aid
	Aid volume and allocation
		Concentrating official development assistance
		Conducting a strategic dialogue with decentralised actors
		Ensuring that Spain’s multilateral contributions are strategic
	Organisation and management
		Creating clear links between Spanish co-ordinating bodies
		Taking the step from evaluation to learning
		Defining a human resource policy that emphasises staff mobility and performance
	Improving the impact of development co-operation
		Using aid effectiveness tools at country level
		Untying aid
		Sharing knowledge on capacity development in middle-income countries
	Towards better humanitarian donorship
		Consolidating good progress in humanitarian programming
		Developing a systematic approach to risk
Secretariat Report
Chapter 1 Strategic orientations
	An ambitious donor, consolidating its position, and focusing on quality
	Progress in implementing the recommendations of the last peer review
	A dedicated policy for Spanish development co-operation
		Separate policy, implementation and financing mechanisms
		New developments: focusing on ways of working
	Re-thinking countries, topics and cross-cutting issues
		Developing clearer criteria for choosing partner countries
		Ensuring a tighter thematic focus
		Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues strategically
			Maintaining a strong and resourced commitment to gender equality
			Mainstreaming environmental concerns
	Clearer roles for Spain’s development players
		Implementing the multilateral strategy from the grassroots to the board rooms
		Defining clearer rules of engagement with civil society
		Making the new strategy for the private sector widely known
		Working through one common framework
	Towards better accountability: Spain needs to brace itself for tougher economic times
	Future considerations
Chapter 2 Development beyond aid
	Progress since the last peer review
	An explicit legal commitment to policy coherence for development
		Clear priorities and awareness at headquarters
		Making Spain’s development strategy known in the field – beyond ODA
	Policy co-ordination mechanisms to resolve conflicts or inconsistencies
		New institutional mechanisms for policy coherence
		The need to ensure sub-national policies respect coherence with Spain’s development goals
	Progress in monitoring, analysing and reporting policy coherence for development
		Strengthening links between reporting and policy responses
		Improving monitoring to enhance transparency
	Using whole-of-government approaches
		More progress needed in inter-ministerial co-operation on fragile states
	Looking forward: the “beyond aid” agenda for the whole Spanish government
	Future considerations
Chapter 3 Aid volume, channels and allocations
	Progress since the last peer review
	A quantum leap truncated by a severe economic crisis
		The need for more transparency over Spain’s channels for partner countries
	An increase in allocations to least developed countries and Africa
	The need for geographic concentration
	Visible commitment to multilateralism and a selective approach
		Lessons from Spain’s participation in the MDG Achievement Fund
	Efforts to reduce sectors and prioritise cross-cutting issues
		Greater concentration on fewer sectors
		Greater efforts required to reach Spain’s gender equality target
		Aid to environment is growing
	A new funding structure to improve the quality of Spain’s development co-operation
	Future considerations
Chapter 4 Organisation and management
	Progress since the last peer review
	A stronger institutional structure for development co-operation
	How can co-ordination be improved?
		Good practice in cross-ministry co-ordination: multilateral aid and debt swaps
	Tools for better results
	Creating an evaluation culture
		The need for more policy-level impact evaluations
		Matching evaluation resource increases with capacity
	Allocating resources strategically
	Clearer human resource policies and greater staff empowerment
	Ensuring new corporate systems support change management
	NGOs: funding instruments need to be a function of policy
	Future considerations
Chapter 5 Aid effectiveness and results
	Progress in implementing the recommendations of the last peer review
	All the ingredients for effective aid: a policy, institutions, and a financial framework
	From commitment to practice
		Aid effectiveness beyond the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation
		Progress on ownership
		Aligning with country strategies and making better use of partner countries’ own systems
			Aligning with country strategies
			Working through partner institutions and systems: joint approaches and budget support
		Building capacity that lasts
			Learning from experience in middle-income countries
			Triangular co-operation
		Making aid more predictable
		The urgent need for progress in untying aid 17F
		Harmonising work with other donors
		Doing more to manage for development results and improve accountability
		Assessing the risks of co-operation in fragile states
	Future considerations
Chapter 6 Humanitarian assistance
	Good progress in implementing the recommendations of the previous peer review
	A coherent results-focused framework for humanitarian programming
		Innovative approaches to supporting recovery
		Disaster risk reduction programming is growing
		Strong political support has led to high levels of risk tolerance, but also exposure
	An active and responsive donor
		Continuing Spain’s useful work to consolidate its partner portfolio
		Supporting co-ordination and encouraging new donors
		Criteria for funding decisions
	Spain: a leader in rapid response
	Operational mechanisms
		Monitoring for impact rather than control
		Ensuring coherence among Spanish actors
		Building staff skills to support “hands on” delivery
	Future considerations
Annex A Progress since the 2007 DAC peer review recommendations
Annex B OECD/DAC standard suite of tables
Annex C Field visit to Bolivia
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