The Network

The Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) is a network of 16 donor countries with a common interest in assessing the organisational effectiveness of the major multilateral organisations they fund.

MOPAN members agree to:

• Carry out joint assessments
• Share information
• Draw on each other’s experience in monitoring and evaluation.

Members are committed to a joint approach to assessment and focus on whether multilateral organisations have in place four strategic dimensions of organisational effectiveness—strategic, operational, relationship and knowledge management. This assessment is called the MOPAN Common Approach.

Members in 2011

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Full list of members (including links)

Secretariat

The MOPAN Secretariat is the focal point for members and other interested parties on all MOPAN activities. It is responsible for implementing, coordinating and delivering the 2011Common Approach.

The Secretariat is managed by MOPAN members on a rotational basis. In 2011, it is being led by Germany.

It is supported by groups of MOPAN members: a Technical Working Group, a Communications Working Group, a Contractual Working Group, and a Task Team on the Future of MOPAN.

Common Approach

MOPAN adopted a new methodology called the Common Approach in 2009. The Common Approach is an annual assessment of a select group of multilateral organisations in several developing countries.

In 2011 MOPAN will continue to apply and develop the Common Approach, assessing five multilateral organisations in 12 developing countries/territories. Humanitarian assistance organisations will be assessed for the first time. MOPAN will continue broadening its approach by developing the instrumentation with a view to assessing global funds in the future.

» Full list of members (including links).