Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network

The Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) is a group of governments with a common interest in knowing more about the effectiveness of multilateral organisations. Network members carry out joint assessments of these organisations, share information and draw on each other's expertise in monitoring and evaluation. Together they provide more than 95% of the development funding to multilateral organisations. The Network's assessments identify strengths and areas for improvement in the multilateral organisations. Findings are used for discussions with the organisations and with their partners, and as ways to further build the organisations' capacity to be effective. Network members also use assessment findings as a source of input for strategic decision-making about their ways of engaging with the organisations, and as an information source when undertaking individual reviews. The Network was established in 2002. It has taken steps over the last years to become more ambitious and professional, with a reshaped assessment approach, more organisations assessed and a permanent Secretariat. How is MOPAN organised? Representatives from all member countries come together a few times per year in the meetings of MOPAN's Steering Committee - the Network's primary decision making body. The Network's Chair is elected for a period of a calendar year from among the members. The United States of America chairs the Network in 2015 and Korea in 2016. A Secretariat supports the Network, and is funded through equal voluntary contributions from its members. It is since 2013 hosted by the OECD's the Development Co-operation Directorate in Paris. The Secretariat is the focal point for members and other actors involved in the assessment process and all other activities.