Network governance

The Network is led by a Chair who presides over MOPAN’s Steering Committee, its primary decisionmaking body, for a period of one calendar year. The position rotates annually. The Chair is supported by a Bureau comprised of the previous, current, incoming Chairs, Chair of the Technical Working Group and the Head of Secretariat. Technical matters, particularly around the assessment methodology, are referred to MOPAN’s Technical Working Group, which acts in an advisory role. The MOPAN Network is supported by a Secretariat that is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. MOPAN’s hosting arrangement is set out in the 2020-22 Memorandum of Understanding and has been extended until 31 December 2024.

MOPAN Chair

• Chairs Steering Committee and Bureau

• Holds position for one fixed calendar year

• Rotates among MOPAN members

Mr Christian Frutiger, 2022 MOPAN Chair

Assistant Director General, Head of Global Cooperation Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Switzerland

The Bureau

• Facilitates decision-making between Steering Committee meetings

• Supports the Chair and drives the Network’s strategic direction

• Composed of the current former, and incoming MOPAN Chair, Head of the Secretariat and the chairs of active working groups

2022 Bureau

Chair: Switzerland

Previous 2021 Chair: Canada

Forthcoming 2023 Chair: Italy

Technical Working Group Chair: Belgium Head of Secretariat

Steering Committee

• MOPAN’s decision-making body

• Composed of one representative for each MOPAN member

• Meets bi-annually

Members

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. *

*Türkiye is an observer

Technical Working Group

• Steering Committee subsidiary body acting in an advisory capacity

• Focuses on the development and application of the MOPAN approach and methodology

• Identifies emerging methodological and technical issues, presents recommendations to be approved by the Steering Committee

Ms Cécilia De Decker, 2022 TWG Chair

Special Evaluator, Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium

Secretariat

• Led by the Head of the MOPAN Secretariat

• Operates under the strategic guidance of the Steering Committee

• Implements MOPAN’s Programme of Work and Budget

Ms Suzanne Steensen, Head of MOPAN Secretariat