Ms Karen Jorgensen:

The way we select partner countries is that we ask the country under review to offer up three suggestions of countries it would propose we visit. Generally, it tries to select programme countries which are broad based and will give us a good view of the breadth and depth of the programme it runs. We look at the three options and at where we believe we will get the most and the best information about the programme. We will also look to see which countries we have recently visited in the context of other reviews, so that we do not go back to the same countries time and again. We were actually quite happy for Malawi to be suggested because it is a relatively new programme country for Ireland. We have not visited Malawi in the context of a peer review, so from that point of view, we thought it would be a very interesting case to examine.