The United Kingdom’s Labour Party have called for reform of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, which sets rules on aid spending.
“It's certainly something I want to push for,” said Preet Gill, the shadow international development secretary, to an audience at a Wednesday event by the Centre for Global Development think tank in London. Discussing the idea for the first time, she said: “This is about actually our leadership standing up for the very things that we think are important.”
At the same event, former DAC chair Richard Manning — who led the committee from 2003-2008 — also criticized it, saying DAC had “questions to answer about its professionalism.”