Resource Corner
This Policy Brief signals a renewed effort to improve policy coherence for development in OECD member countries. It has been designed to engage stakeholders on the main issues, goals and challenges of this effort and to invite feedback from all interested parties.
In the Policy Brief, the OECD's role in promoting policy coherence for development is described as follows:
"The OECD is well placed to integrate developmental with other policy considerations due to its analytical capacity and the horizontal nature of its work. A combination of concrete analysis of the impacts of OECD country policies in priority areas on developing countries, policy recommendations– including identification of policy alternatives – and building the will for reform are needed. The peer review mechanism, supported by an analytical framework, can be instrumental to this end, not only through the DAC, but also through all other relevant policy committees. And OECD’s analytical work will seek measures by which progress can be monitored on a regular basis." (page 7)
[OECD Observer (2003) Policy coherence: Vital for global development. Policy Brief, July 2003. Paris, OECD]