Publications & Documents

Germany - DAC Peer Reviews of Development Co-operation, 2015

Germany’s foreign aid is at a record high and rising, but more effort will be needed to reach an internationally agreed donors’ target and fulfil Germany’s own goal to send more aid to the neediest countries, according to a new OECD Review (2015).

The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa 2015 - Promise and Performance

ECA-OECD Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa

This report highlights the significant progress on the part of African governments and their international partners in delivering their commitments to improve political and economic governance, increase domestic resource mobilisation as well as human development dimensions.

Tax and Development Programme

The OECD’s Task Force on Tax and Development was created in January 2010. Its role is to advise the OECD Committees in delivering a Tax and Development Programme to improve the enabling environment for developing countries to collect taxes fairly and effectively.

Aid for Trade 10 years on - Keeping it Effective

This paper assesses the achievements and challenges of the WTO-led Aid for Trade initiative. After outlining the achievements, the paper discusses where to put the emphasis, how to expand partnerships, how to enhance effectiveness; and, most importantly, how to retain interest in using aid to make trade work for the poor.

OECD at the United Nations Summit 2015

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development(SDGs), builds upon the Millennium Development Goals and converge with the post 2015 development agenda. The OECD will partner in a series of side events, showcasing how its work can support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Broader development finance from the United Arab Emirates

To get a better overview of all its official support for development, the UAE has completed a pilot exercise with the OECD. This pilot will also contribute to the current discussion on what a broader measure of international development finance should look like. Such a measure should incentivise public financing in support of the SDGs and mobilise private resources for that purpose.

Upcoming DAC and related events

Calendar of the key upcoming events of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD).

Belgium - DAC Peer Reviews of Development Co-operation, 2015

Belgium is making a laudable push to direct more development aid to the poorest countries, but to deliver on this it needs to set firm deadlines, make its aid programme more flexible, and should reverse a decline in overall aid, according to an OECD Review.

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Belgium 2015