Senator du Lot “calls on the government to establish as quickly as possible a transversal tool for monitoring international contributions and to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the different contributions”.
Raphaël Daubet, senator from Lot and special rapporteur for the “Public Development Assistance” mission, recently requested, with his colleague Michel Canévet, an evaluation from the Court of Auditors on the financing of France’s multilateral actions. This report, recognized for its clarity, highlights crucial issues requiring a rapid response from the new government.
The report highlights the absence of a global tool for monitoring French international funding, despite previous recommendations. This gap complicates the management and control of this expenditure by the executive and Parliament. Despite the objective of the programming law of August 4, 2021, which aims to channel 65% of public development assistance through the bilateral channel, the increase in contributions to multilateral entities makes this objective difficult to achieve. The absence of a clear strategy for choosing between the bilateral and multilateral channel also raises questions about the effectiveness of aid and the dispersion of efforts.
Faced with these findings, Senator Raphaël Daubet calls on the government to quickly establish a transversal tool for monitoring international contributions and to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the different contributions. Like some of his colleagues, he also questions the advisability of concentrating aid on a smaller number of organizations to maximize its effectiveness.
By optimizing the monitoring and management of its public development assistance, France will be able to direct its resources where they are most needed, thus strengthening the benefit for populations of its international actions. “This report demonstrates the need for rigorous management of our development aid. It is essential that we have a clear vision of the use and impact of each euro invested,” concludes Raphaël Daubet.
