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FINEXPO EVALUATION
the Dutch government and the recipient;
The project must not harm the interests of the poor or
have a negative impact on disadvantageous groups,
incl. women;
Investments should stimulate sustainable economic,
ecological and social development;
The end user must be sufficiently capable, in all
respects, of ensuring (long-term) sustainable
management of the project;
The share of the Dutch origin in the transaction has to
be at least 60% of the total transaction amount (or at
least 10% from the developing country);
The price quality ratio of the transaction had to be in
line with markets standards.
After 2006, the projects in LDCs (ORET A) had to respond to
international competitive bidding in accordance to OECD
Guidelines 83
In 1995, China was granted to so-called “Kok package”, implying
that approximately 40-50% of all approved ORET/MILIEV funds
had to be used for establishing trade relations with China. Late
2003, this percentage was reduced to 20%, (similar to the
maximum used for each single country). 84
Out of the OECD-DAC list 85 , the ORET A for LDCs comprised the
following 44 countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbeidzjan,
Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Colombia, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Philippines, Georgia,
Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory
Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Kenya,
Macedonia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palestine Territories,
Peru, Serbia-Montenegro, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Syria, Thailand,
Tunisia, Vietnam.
ORET B countries per July, 31st 2007 were: Afghanistan, Angola,
Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African
Rep., Comoro Islands, Congo Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Yemen, Cape
Verde, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi,
Maldives, Mali, Mauretania, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Eastern-
Timor, Rwanda, Salomon Islands, Samoa, Sao Tomé & Principe,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Chad,
Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia (Myanmar was excluded as a
result of ILO observation on child labour).
In the early years ORET offered a (minimum) grant of 40 %, while
the costs of the commercial loan were often subsidised up to a
see
83 DAC Recommendation on Untying Official Development Assistance to the Least Developed Countries, DCD/DAC (2001)
12/FINAL, amended on 15 March 2006 n- DCD/DAC (2006)25.
84 Apart from China (that benefitted eight years of a preferential treatment), Ghana received a considerable share of the ORET
funds (in 2007 China and Ghana together counted for 43,4% of the ORET-portfolio). Other frequent recipients were Vietnam
(as an important LDC and emerging market), Indonesia and Tanzania.
85 See for the actual list: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/40/43540882.pdf
Final report – Appendix 8 – page 149