Mr. Ruairí de Búrca:

It is difficult to answer that question in the abstract about organisations that we do not fund. One of the things we do with organisations we fund is take a detailed check, an organisational assessment, of their capacity to deliver. We agree a results framework, which is reported on regularly and also monitored and checked. One of the really important elements in that is to benchmark performance. We look at that and we make assessments, such as organisation A is better placed to do something than organisation B. One of the other things we bring into this is the fact that often we are not the only funder. We often fund in consortia. One of the very important elements in that is that the members of the consortium share information. A key element here is that we, through our evaluation and audit unit, also evaluate performance perhaps midway through big relationships or we do a joint evaluation, and those evaluations are shared among OECD donors. A very good suite of information is shared. We work with a relatively limited number of organisations. In those partnerships there is a sense of historical knowledge as well. Past performance helps us to determine and give a risk assessment in terms of future relationship.