Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee

Article Article scientifique Article Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee eng 2025-07-08 author Bau Nicolas 0009-0009-5521-5432 Université de Genève 855458 Département de science politique et relations internationales (SdS) (SPERI) author Dietrich Simone 0000-0002-7104-3302 Université de Genève 878687 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) author Fleiner Katharina 0000-0002-5503-2224 Université de Genève 910132 author Iannantuoni Alice 0000-0003-1372-2793 Université de Genève 943613 jid.70000 10.1002/jid.70000 0954-1748 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.70000 <p>How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier standard‐setting organization in international development cooperation. How do these new members integrate into the existing international aid architecture? We study this question by analysing the compliance of traditional and newer donors with standards and best practices set by the DAC. We argue that new donors are more likely to adhere to DAC statistical reporting requirements, while traditional donors are better at following substantive policy guidelines to achieve global policy goals. In particular, we posit that the Secretariat interacts differently with members depending on their status: With new donors, it tends to support the adoption of statistical standards, which are necessary to align aid‐giving practices with all other standards, while adherence with more substantive guidelines for aid effectiveness is scrutinized more closely for older members. We examine one mechanism that facilitates the integration of new DAC members: the Policy Marker System, an IO‐driven monitoring system whose functioning requires both compliance with statistical guidelines and the adoption of good practices in aid giving. Our analyses indicate that new donors are indeed more likely to comply with procedural reporting requirements, while traditional donors are more likely to implement the more substantive DAC recommendation of targeting aid towards certain priority policy areas.</p> Dewey 320 Swiss National Science Foundation Evaluating the Pursuit of International Development Norms through Peer Review: Evidence from the OECD Development Assistance Committee 188807 CH 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 false Journal of international development 31b4bdff-4279-4f44-adee-6a36f06e9179 Article (Published version) Public Examining_New_Donors_in_the_DAC_BDF.pdf 420313 application/pdf 06c39fca3c90f090a8b07bc580cef28730f25258eeaf5fa2bd37c5e395274ad2 openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales

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