Publications & Documents

12-April-2023

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Countries and territories most in need

Because ODA is a scarce resource for financing development, it is important to ensure it reaches the countries and people that need it most.

16-March-2023

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Untying aid: Official development assistance contract opportunities

The OECD DAC recommendation on Untying Aid reinforces that developing countries need the responsibility for procurement. The private sector needs to compete for aid-funded contracts. To this end, a list of official development assistance contract opportunities is available on line.

7-March-2023

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Development finance for gender equality and women’s empowerment

Data on DAC members’ aid targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment are compiled with the help of the gender equality marker in the Creditor Reporting System (CRS).

23-February-2023

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OECD Development Co‑operation Peer Reviews: Hungary 2023

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. A DAC member since only 2016, Hungary has achieved impressive growth in its official development assistance (ODA). Bilateral co-operation has increased, in particular, and relies on close consultation with partners. Hungary champions sustainable water management, combining diplomacy, domestic expertise and development co-operation. In fragile contexts, it focuses its support to local civil society organisations, and in particular faith-based actors. As it continues to make progress towards established DAC standards and ways of working, an institutional reorganisation provides Hungary with significant opportunities for further reform. This peer review provides a set of recommendations to increase the impact of Hungary’s engagement in partner countries, deepen collaboration across institutions and with stakeholders, strengthen internal systems, and balance tensions between domestic and global objectives.

13-February-2023

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Development Co-operation Report 2023 - Debating the Aid System

In the last three years, multiple global crises and the growing urgency of containing climate change have put current models of development co-operation to, perhaps, their most radical test in decades. The goal of a better world for all seems harder to reach, with new budgetary pressures, demands to provide regional and global public goods, elevated humanitarian needs, and increasingly complex political settings. Critique of the roots, rationale and operations of the international aid system is resulting in calls for fundamental change, manifesting, for example, in the movements to address colonial legacies and racism in the sector. This 60th anniversary edition of the Development Co-operation Report takes stock of these challenges, and proposes ways forward along four lines of action: unlock progress to deliver existing commitments; support locally led transformation in partner countries; modernise business models and financial management practices; and rebalance power relations in international decision making and partnerships. The report draws on insights from heads of state, leaders of international organisations, practitioners, academia and civil society, with particular emphasis on voices representing the diverse experiences and perspectives of low- and middle-income countries and their populations.

19-January-2023

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Private finance mobilised by official development finance interventions

This report takes stock of progress made by development co-operation providers – both bilateral and multilateral – to mobilise private finance in support of sustainable development.

17-January-2023

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Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)

As development agencies switch their emphasis from supporting individual projects to providing support for broad policies and strategies, strategic environmental assessments are becoming more urgent. We work with the Strategic Environmental Assessment Network to produce guidance notes on a more harmonised, effective approach to SEA.

13-December-2022

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Joining the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

The DAC is the leading international forum for bilateral providers of development co-operation. Advanced and emerging economies have considerable experience to share and belong in the DAC. Accession to the DAC confirms a country's commitment to promoting international development.

6-December-2022

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DAC Chair Carsten Staur

Before being appointed as DAC Chair, Carsten Staur was Denmark’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OECD in Paris from 2018 to 2022, prior to which he was Denmark’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva (2013-2018) and in New York (2007-2013).

5-December-2022

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Denmark’s Carsten Staur appointed new DAC Chair

Carsten Staur, currently Denmark’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO, was today appointed as the new Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the leading international forum for bilateral providers of development aid.

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