Directives for reporting to the aid activity database (Creditor Reporting System)

The CRS directives specify the resource flows covered in the database, provides information on the main uses of the data, gives practical instructions for data compilers.

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The Vital Contribution of Transparency to Development Effectiveness - DAC Chair, J. Brian Atwood, London 25 April 2012

In the context of the new Global Partnership for Development, on 25 April Development Initiatives organized a roundtable with DAC Chair J. Brian Atwood to set out his vision for transparency and discuss political and practical opportunities for the post-2015 development agenda. Mr. Atwood provided his assessment of progress by the post-Busan Implementation Group and discussed:1) the case for transparency in terms of the behavioural

DACnews April 2012 - Delivering the results we need

As experts and policy makers increasingly focus their attention on rethinking the role of aid in development, the effects of the crisis are manifesting themselves in donor budgets. Important challenges ahead – such as the sustainable development issues that will be debated in Rio de Janeiro in June – call for ever better, more robust and innovative approaches. Important lessons and experience in sectors such as health, for example,

Recent Speeches by the DAC Chair: The vital contribution of transparency to development effectiveness

I am delivering these remarks here in London to acknowledge the role that UK-AID and the Department for International Development under the leadership of Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell have played in helping to create and promote the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards. London has become the epicenter of the movement to promote the benefits of full transparency.

European Union - DAC Peer Review of Development Co-operation

The European Union is a major player in global development, co-ordinating coherent actions amongst its 27 member states and providing direct support to developing countries. Total net ODA by all 27 EU member states was USD 73.6 billion in 2011. Grants by EU institutions totalled USD 12.6 billion.

EU development co-operation: improving but still cumbersome

The European Union is a major player in global development, co-ordinating coherent actions amongst its 27 member states and providing direct support to developing countries.

Special Review of Slovenia's Development Co-operation (2011)

Slovenia has put in place many of the important building blocks for its programme, including the legal foundations, a statement of priorities and a consolidated budget for ODA.

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Development: Aid to developing countries falls because of global recession

Major donors’ aid to developing countries fell by nearly 3% in 2011, breaking a long trend of annual increases. Disregarding years of exceptional debt relief, this was the first drop since 1997.

Adaptation Guidance: Project Level User Guide

A project level user guide of OECD Adaptation Guidance.

Adaptation Guidance:Project Level User Guide

This user-guide provides guidance on how climate change adaptation can be integrated at the project level.