Membership contribution to the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN)

MOPAN was established in 2002 by eight countries, including Switzerland, and has been growing over the years. In 2016, MOPAN will count 17 members, which together are responsible for 95% of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) in support of the multilateral system. MOPAN is Switzerland’s key performance analysis instrument for the multilateral organisations and financial core contributions. MOPAN assessments are also the primary source of information for SDC’s Annual Multilateral Performance Assessment (AMPA), which was developed in 2013/2014 and allows to aggregate multilateral performance information for SDC’s directorate and provide a neutral source to inform the steering of institutional relationships and priorities by SDC divisions.

• Support from MOPAN to its Members in assessing the effectiveness of the multilateral organisations that receive development and humanitarian funding
  
• Strengthen the organisations’ contribution to overall greater development and humanitarian results, by generating, collecting, analysing and presenting relevant and credible information on the organisational and development effectiveness of multilateral organisations
  
• Use of generated knowledge base to contribute to organisational learning within and among multilateral organisations, their direct clients, partners and other stakeholders.
  

Switzerland’s priority multilateral organisations

• Informed and result-based corporate steering at the level of the governing bodies of Switzerland’s multilateral priority organisations, based on independent performance assessment information
• Effective accountability for the funds provided to Switzerland’s multilateral priority organisations based on independent performance assessment information.

Expected results:  

• Independent assessments
  
• Specific entry points to discuss performance and possible reforms with the senior management of each assessed organisation during and after the assessment process
  
• An up-to-date online repository of MOPAN assessment data.
  

Results from previous phases:  

MOPAN membership has allowed to increase Switzerland’s capacity to strengthen its primary roles as a member and donor of multilateral organisations in terms of:

• Its policy dialogue with the organisations;
• Its fiduciary obligations towards the organisations;
• Providing nurtured reporting and accountability instruments (Botschaftsmonitoring, Annual Multilateral Performance Assessment, etc.) to inform SDC senior management, parliament and other important domestic stakeholders on results achieved with and by the organisations.

Today, MOPAN key findings are much more accessible since in addition to the detailed assessments, the Network also produces lean one-pagers and summary reports for each organisational assessment, which are published on its website.

Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States of America.

Close alignment and exchange with OECD and the Evaluation Network of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC Evalnet) thanks to the hosting arrangement for MOPAN Secretariat and administrative integration of the latter in OECD’s Development Cooperation Department (DCD).

Phase 3 24.09.2015 - 31.12.2019   (Completed)