On 14 February 2023, Mrs. Ureerat Chareontoh, Director-General of Thailand International Cooperation Agency(TICA ) met with Ms. Pilar GARRIDO, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), OECD at OECD office, Paris. Ms. Ana FERNANDES, Head of Unit, Foresight, Outreach and Policy Reform, DCD, OECD and Mrs. Arunee Hiam , Deputy Director-General were also present.

 

Ms. Pilar expressed her gratitude to DG.Ureerat for accepting the invitation to attend The Global Meeting of Development Cooperation Providers, and especially for agreeing to be one of the speakers to share knowledge and experience at the session I under the topic "Working together to respond to multiple crises and put the SDGs back on track" on 15 February 2023. She also added that despite not being the member of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), OECD, Thailand’s development cooperation was considered as an example of good practice that should be shared with other development cooperation providers. She further suggested that Thailand and OECD can work together on numerous issues to showcase the good practices of Thailand's development cooperation such as regional cooperation, the discussion forums related to new measures of ODA and monitoring and evaluation of ODA.

 

DG. Ureerat thanked Ms. Pilar for the invitation extended by OECD to Thailand and she expressed her appreciation for OECD giving importance to Thailand's development work and for recognizing Thailand’s good practices that can be shared with other development cooperation providers. She stressed that even though Thailand is not the member of OECD nor DAC, it has followed OECD’s guideline for transparency and accountability. Thailand is more than happy to be part of OECD's activities in order to learn and strengthen its role in international development cooperation and support the efficiency and effectiveness of development cooperation.

 

In addition, TICA has proposed the project on "Strengthening Development Cooperation" under the country program between Thailand and OECD phase 2. The objective is to work with OECD on the ODA reporting, monitoring and data base management so that Thailand's ODA reporting will conform to OECD standards and thereby be used at the policy decision level.

 

Both sides agreed to expand the collaboration in monitoring and evaluation, regional consultation and the effective ODA reporting.