Al-Mashat Launches 4th Evaluation Round of GPEDC

Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, held a joint multi-stakeholder platform for launching the fourth evaluation round of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), through which progress in development cooperation efforts in Egypt is followed up, in cooperation with multilateral and bilateral development partners, representatives of development partners, the private sector and civil society, alongside physical presence and virtual participation.

It included Elena Panova, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Egypt, Alessandro Fracassetti, Director of the United Nations Development Program in Egypt, and representatives of the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the French Development Agency, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in addition to the technician team at the Ministry of International Cooperation.

The GPEDC is the main platform for relevant parties and stakeholders to exchange knowledge, experience and information about development cooperation and its evaluation, to maximize benefit in order to achieve development and promote mutual benefit. It was agreed to launch this partnership in 2011 in Nairobi, with more than 161 countries and 56 organizations, which is the result of the high-level forum on development cooperation activities that took place in Busan, South Korea, as it helps track progress in achieving the SDGs and strengthen development partnerships to support the goals, and through which periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of development cooperation takes place in each country based on 4 principles that are: country ownership, focus on results, inclusive partnerships, transparency and accountability.