Because I don't have the advantage of a legal background, I can just give you a very general answer. The very general answer is that about half of the OECD countries have different bits and pieces of legislation that look at aspects of a mandate or enabling legislation for development assistance. The reason why you have to unpack a little bit is that very few actually have comprehensive pieces of legislation. They'll deal with accountability or with payments or with mandate, but very seldom do they put things in combination together. You have to go to various acts to pull together a picture at a national level, but about half of them have features of legislation that I think would be relevant to the work of the committee.
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