In this September issue we focus on the UN World Summit...

• New figures just released - aid predicted to reach USD 130 billion by 2010. OECD DAC Chair Richard Manning takes a closer look at recent pledges...
   

• Jeff D. Sachs, Director of the UN Millennium Project, writes exclusively for DACNews…
   

• The Paris Declaration at the UN Summit: progress on final targets to measure aid effectiveness made in time for UN Summit...

New figures just released...

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Also in this issue...

The birth of the Millennium Development Goals

Here’s how it all began… Former DAC Chair Jim Michel remembers how the MDGs began at the OECD...

UN Summit quick reference guide

Your one-stop reference guide to terms and events referred to in the Draft Outcome Document...

What about corruption?

DACNews outlines the opportunities - and the risks - for good governance and conflict prevention with the scaling up of aid…

Peer Reviews –  Switzerland's aid reviewed

Trade and aid need to work together...

What is a Peer Review?

In the Field

Today they are leaders in aid effectiveness
The Paris Declaration in Rwanda...

News in Brief

• Environmental Fiscal Reform just published
• Security System Reform and Governance published
• New OECD Development Dimension Series on Policy Coherence published soon
• UNDP's Human Development Report 2005  just released
• Update from Development Gateway survey on harmonisation

Key ODA Statistics

Did you know...? Aid to help control HIV/AIDS has gone up by 64% in two years

Total ODA for HIV/AIDS control averaged over $2.2 billion per year from 2000 to 2002, reaching 140 countries; Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda received the most...

OECD DAC Statistics including Aid at a Glance charts for DAC members and recipient countries.

Other Development news and events from OECD and beyond

• UN General Assembly 2005 World Summit - Five Year Review of the Millennium Development Declaration, New York, September 14-16
• 5th session of the African Partnership Forum, London, October 4-5
• Plus new OECD-wide publications relevant to development; Trade and Structural Adjustments; Environmental Requirements and Market Access

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