Driven by the pressure of the DAC approaching deadline, the DGCS has quickened the pace and attempted to conclude and finalise processes that started in past years. In September 2008, an internal Task force was set up to overcome Italian cooperation management inertia and implement international policies on aid effectiveness, even without a legislative reform. Despite these efforts, this late undertaking will not enable results to be available in time for the OECD examination, postponing the implementation of the expected changes to a future date. The Italian Memorandum to the DAC in many section often refers to these processes as “on-going” or “underway”. This “underway-ism “ tone indirectly makes clear that no major Peer-review oriented reform was fully implemented over the last 5 years. In the same line, despite the current analysis on aid effectiveness, and on aid quality, in the past there had been no strategic reflection on how to comply with the Paris Declaration commitment till the Accra conference. Three years were wasted while other OCED countries were attempting to implement their aid effectiveness national Plans.
Current policy and planning processes will start being implemented and face institutional resistance in the second half of 2009. Yet, the lack of financial resources and the reduced international screening on Italy after the G8 Summit will mean that two of the main incentives will be lost in the implementation phase, increasing the risk of a renewed stalemate.
The 2004 DAC review acknowledged that its 2000 recommendations were still not implemented. Now, the almost 10 year old recommendations are still valid as there was no protracted effort to implement them.
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