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OECD 1999
Country Assistance Strategies as a Management and Evaluation Instrument for Donors
recourse to country-policy papers and country assistance programmes. What was
new, however, in the country concepts introduced in 1992 can be stated in the
following points:
– There is a standard outline for all country concepts (see Box 8.2). They are
supposed to synthesise the situation in the partner country, the priorities of
both governments, the experience of German development co-operation
and other donor activities into a coherent concept for future development
co-operation with a partner country.
– The country concepts are supplemented by an analysis of the socioeconomic
situation of the partner countries (provided by the Kreditanstalt für
Wiederaufbau, KfW), an analysis of the socio-cultural conditions (prepared
Box 8.2. Standard outline of the BMZ’s country concepts, 1999
Summary
1. Overview of the core problems and development potential of the partner
country and the framework conditions for development co-operation
1.1. Core problems and development potential, and importance of the
country in the regional/global context
1.2. Assessment of the general framework conditions
2. Assessment of the co-operation with the partner country to date
2.1. Importance of German development co-operation in the international
context
2.2. Priority areas and results of the bilateral development co-operation to
date
2.3. Cross-project implementation problems of German development
co-operation and conclusions for future co-operation
3. Priority areas of future development co-operation
3.1. Assessment of the partner government’s development policy and its
expectations with regard to the orientation of German development
co-operation
3.2. Identification of the future priority areas from the German viewpoint
3.3. Assistance strategies of German development co-operation in the priority
areas
4. Co-ordination
5. Policy dialogue and priority area-related dialogue
Source: BMZ.
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