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OECD commends UK efforts to reduce global poverty
31 07 2010 The United Kingdom’s aid was USD 11.5 billion in 2009, representing 0.52% of its gross national income (GNI). Its planned expenditures for 2010/11 put it on track to reach its target of 0.7% of GNI by 2013.
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Achieving MDGs in crisis settings: Accra Declaration endorsed by fragile and conflict-affected states
31 07 2010 A group of 12 countries met in Accra on 19-20 July 2010 to reflect on their MDG performance and articulate priorities for accelerating progress toward the Millennium Development Goals in preparation for the MDG Summit in September. Participants endorsed the Accra Declaration on achieving the MDGs in crisis settings.
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OECD/WTO call for Aid-for-Trade case stories
31 07 2010 OECD and WTO are calling on governments, institutions, organizations, the academia, the private sector and other interested parties to share experiences on how Aid for Trade is working on the ground. The case stories will provide an important source of information for the Third Global Review of Aid for Trade next year.
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Getting Closer to the Core - Measuring Country Programmable Aid
21 07 2010 The concept of country programmable aid aims to provide a better estimate of the volume of resources effectively transferred to developing countries, resources on which they can base their programming decisions. This brief asks: how is this concept defined, how useful is it, and what can be done to make it better?
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Global Governance for International Development: Who's in Charge?
21 07 2010 There is no single forum for countries to agree how to make their development aid more effective and to make these decisions last. This brief discusses how this situation can be improved.
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Special Review : Poland should strengthen its development co-operation
17 07 2010 The OECD encourages Poland to strengthen its development co-operation policy, set a clear path for aid increases and move from small-scale aid projects to multi-year aid programmes.
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Development: Belgium improves the quality and volume of its aid
17 07 2010 The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) commends Belgium’s commitment to improve the quality and volume of its aid, particularly at a time of global economic crisis. Belgium spent USD 2.6 billion on official development assistance (ODA) in 2009, which amounted to 0.55% of its gross national income (GNI).
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DACnews May 2010: New roads to development
17 07 2010 The DAC is expanding its partnerships to deepen its impact on development. This reflects not only the increasing complexity of the challenges involved, but also the incredible richness of experience and insights that are available. This issue of DACnews focuses on several of these new “roads to development” and how they are making a mark on the way the DAC works.
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Global Governance for International Development: Who's in charge?
16 07 2010 Global development governance is the subject of intense debate. But there is no single place today where countries can both agree how to make their collective development efforts more effective, and make these decisions stick: rather, there are several places, with different strengths and weaknesses, creating overlaps and gaps. This eclectic set of arrangements, which scarcely merits the term “architecture”, can surely be improved. But how?
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Getting Closer to the Core - Measuring Country programmable Aid
01 07 2010 The headline measure of spending by industrialised country governments in favour of developing countries has long been Official Development Assistance, or ODA. This captures grants and concessional loans made to developing countries and multilateral development institutions for development purposes. Bilateral outflows cover a broad range of expenditures, including several items which are challenged by advocacy groups ...
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Development : Japan raises the quality of its aid but should also increase the quantity
01 07 2010 The budget for Japanese development co-operation has suffered years of decline. Now, a promising budget increase in 2008 has been cancelled out by a sharp fall in the 2009 budget, according to a peer review of Japan’s aid policies by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
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Podcast - "Do No Harm: International Support for State Building in Fragile Situations"
01 07 2010 The LSE’s Crisis States Research Centre (CSRC) organised a panel discussion on the OECD’s report "Do No Harm", which provides practical guidance on constructive intervention in fragile states. Speakers included Jon Lømoy, Director of OECD-DCD; Dr. Funmi Olonisakin, Senior Research Fellow, Conflict, Security and Development group at Kings College; and Professor James Putzel, Director of CSRC.
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Aid in support of gender equality and women's empowerment 2007-2008
27 05 2010 This report with tables and charts summarises statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women's empowerment extended by DAC members in 2007-2008. More DAC members than ever now report on their aid to gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
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Breakthrough statement endorses development co-operation among developing countries
02 05 2010 Culminating in the landmark Bogotá Statement, the 24-26 March High Level Meeting on South-South Co-operation in Bogotá, Colombia, reasserted that South-South Co-operation is a complement to -- not a substitute for -- traditional aid, and commended the OECD DAC for its statistics and methodology in measuring South-South Co-operation.
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GENDERNET Practice Notes
02 05 2010 This set of Practice Notes brings together material prepared and published by the member agencies of the DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET) in recent years. The Practice Notes provide readily useable information for practitioners on how to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in development co-operation, and how to integrate a gender equality perspective into a wide range of activities.
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Aid : Development aid rose in 2009 and most donors will meet 2010 aid targets
02 05 2010 New OECD figures show continuing growth in development aid in 2009, despite the financial crisis. Total net official development assistance (ODA) from the donors in the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rose 0.7% in real terms, but the rise was 6.8% once debt relief, a volatile item, is excluded.
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Dili International Dialogue sets outs a new vision for peacebuilding and statebuilding
02 05 2010 In a significant step on the road to building sustainable peace and developing capable and accountable states, delegates from developing countries, bilateral and multilateral partners and civil society met in Dili, Timor-Leste on 9-10 April to address the challenge of conflict and fragility. The resulting Dili Declaration identifies seven peacebuilding and statebuilding goals, and outlines concrete commitments for governments and international assistance to improve its support in this process.
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New publication release: Development Co-operation Report 2010
02 05 2010 The Development Co-operation Report, issued by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid.
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Aid effectiveness and accountability: G8 support is key for progress
02 05 2010 Canada, 2010 G8 chair, invited the OECD to participate in the G8 Development Ministerial meeting in Halifax, on 27-28 April. The meeting will lay the foundations for development proposals for the Leaders Summit in Muskoka next June. The OECD will lead off the discussion on the overarching theme of accountability and effectiveness of aid relationships, highlighting progress, challenges and areas where political will can make aid make a difference for development results.
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Aid effectiveness and accountability: G8 support is key for progress
27 04 2010 Canada, 2010 G8 chair, invited the OECD to participate in the G8 Development Ministerial meeting in Halifax, on 27-28 April. The meeting will lay the foundations for development proposals for the Leaders Summit in Muskoka next June. The OECD will lead off the discussion on the overarching theme of accountability and effectiveness of aid relationships, highlighting progress, challenges and areas where political will can make aid make a difference for development results.
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New publication release: Development Co-operation Report 2010
23 04 2010 The Development Co-operation Report, issued by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid.
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OECD’s review of Italy’s development co-operation
21 04 2010 The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD notes that Italian Co-operation is facing major challenges. The first is an urgent need to reform official development co-operation. The second is that Italy will fail to meet its international commitment to increase official development assistance (ODA) to 0.51% of its gross national income (GNI) by 2010 and is unlikely to meet 0.7% by 2015.
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Aid Statistics - Donors’ mixed aid performance for 2010 sparks concern
21 04 2010 Aid to developing countries in 2010 will reach record levels in dollar terms after increasing by 35 per cent since 2004. But it will still be less than the world’s major aid donors promised five years ago at the Gleneagles and Millennium 5 summits.
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Breakthrough statement endorses development co-operation among developing countries
21 04 2010 Culminating in the landmark Bogotá Statement, the 24-26 March High Level Meeting on South-South Co-operation in Bogotá, Colombia, reasserted that South-South Co-operation is a complement to -- not a substitute for -- traditional aid, and commended the OECD DAC for its statistics and methodology in measuring South-South Co-operation.
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Dili International Dialogue sets outs a new vision for peacebuilding and statebuilding
21 04 2010 In a significant step on the road to building sustainable peace and developing capable and accountable states, delegates from developing countries, bilateral and multilateral partners and civil society met in Dili, Timor-Leste on 9-10 April to address the challenge of conflict and fragility. The resulting Dili Declaration identifies seven peacebuilding and statebuilding goals, and outlines concrete commitments for governments and international assistance to improve its support in this process.
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