The Busan Commitments: An Analysis of EU Progress and Performance

The study was launched DEVCO to monitor the progress made since Busan by EU institutions and EU Member States, in response to the lack of “all EU-specific” reporting on Aid-Effectiveness commitments through existing reporting mechanisms.

The aim is to gather and present evidence in complementarity with parallel processes such as the EU Accountability Report, the GPEDC Monitoring and some monitoring from the Building Blocks.

The study focuses on six priority areas:

1. transparency
2. fragmentation and joint programming
3. ownership of development priorities
4.  results
5.  inclusive development partnerships and private sector involvement
6. fragility.

The data collection was carried out as a collaborative process involving the Member States (MS), on the basis of self-selection submissions, responses to commitment-specific questionnaires issued and submissions to other parallel processes such as the EU Accountability Report and the GPEDC monitoring exercise.