theories and work programmes
2.5 Conclusion: The DAC system and its frontiers
What does this story of the functioning of the DAC over these 60 years tell us?
First, the extraordinary vision of the founding fathers in the DAG, providing a mandate that was targeted but expansive, which has brought into the DAC a huge range of donor side actors, and then, with the aid effectiveness work of the 2000s, developing country actors, civil society and the private sector as well.
Second, the creation of the role of fulltime chair of the DAC, an outcome of an initial readiness of the US to fund and fill that post, has provided an anchor and visibility.
Third, the critical role of leadership from DAC ministers and agency heads at HLMs and the annual Tidewater retreat.
Fourth, the importance of the wider ecosystem of the aid industry, NGOs, research institutes and the like, which DAC members, in various ways, have done much to create.
Fifth, the emergence within the DAC of subsidiary bodies that became their own policy communities, bringing a moment of constitutional crisis to the DAC, when in 2003, the Committee felt no longer in charge of its own progeny. This crisis was resolved by converting almost all of the subsidiary bodies from working parties into networks – Govnet, Gendernet, Evalnet, Povnet, Environet, INCAF – still working and funded within the DAC and the OECD programme of work, but with the freedom to bring in participation from expertise beyond the DAC, drawing on the wider ecosystem that DAC members had done so much to create and finance.
Sixth, the still unresolved problem of working with “South-South” donors belonging to the Bandung tradition with its powerful alternative conceptual framework of sharing rather than giving, and increasingly articulating its visions and activities in the contemporary context (Mawdsley, 2013; Gu, Shankland, & Chenoy, 2016; Chaturvedi et al., 2021). In this context, how the DAC has interacted with China on two fronts is recounted in Box 5.
Seventh, the complex politics of development, at both country level and at the geopolitical level, where the Cold War was helped to its end by training terrorists in Afghanistan, the legacy of which has reached beyond the Twin
Towers to disrupt development efforts in whole regions in an ongoing saga (Brzezinski, 1986; Michailof, 2018).
Eighth, in spite of all the imperfections of the development enterprise, and of the real world, the condition of the human race has improved dramatically since the DAC came into being 60 years ago, thanks most of all to science and technology (the Solow growth model with widely available technology as the driver is not wrong), but also to the positive contribution of a global development enterprise, of which the DAC has been a part, although measurement and attribution are difficult and debated.
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