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DAC takes further steps to untie more aid

22-Mar-2006

Hardly a major international development event goes by without calls for more aid to be untied.  In response, the DAC had agreed in 2001 on a Recommendation on Untying ODA to the Least Developed Countries.  While the Recommendation provided for exceptions concerning small contracts, the DAC has now decided to lift this exception.....(Extract from Room Document presented at the 15 March 2006 DAC Meeting).