OECD-DAC

Alert has lobbied the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) to emphasise the need for a different model of aid effectiveness when operating in ‘Fragile States’. The DAC Fragile States Group has started a number of initiatives in recent months that certainly go in the right direction. These include work on service delivery, allocation and ‘whole of government approaches’. Over a longer period, the Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation has produced guidance on conflict prevention and security sector reform. At the highest level, the member agencies of the DAC have now agreed Principles of Good International Engagement in Fragile States which articulate some of Alert’s concerns. However, there is still a long way to travel before the global aid system fully integrates these principles in its myriad activities and adapts the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness accordingly.