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10-Apr-2008
The ODA figures for 2007 show that donors face a real challenge in meeting their aid commitments. Political will and high public support are indispensible if donors want to live up to their promises. Discussions in the DevCom Network show that publics care most about the concrete results of development aid. In order to better integrate how agencies manage for and communicate about results, the DevCom Network and the Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results are teaming up for a meeting in Berlin on 19-20 May to address this issue.
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11-Jan-2008
After a slow start, public awareness about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is rising steadily in OECD countries, especially where publicity campaigns are run. Our study of three OECD countries shows that successful MDG campaigns are long-term, funded adequately, and involve local authorities, civil society organisations and the private sector.
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11-Jan-2008
In November 2007, the members of the Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators met in Lisbon for two days of brainstorming about the current state and future of development communication. The summary report gives an overview of the discussions and projects for the coming year.
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15-Oct-2007
How can the results and effectiveness of development cooperation be better communicated by donors? The participants of the 19th Annual Meeting of the DevCom Network will deal with different dimensions of this question on 6 and 7 November 2007 in Lisbon (Portugal). In the lead-up to this event, the Development Centre is pleased to present revamped web pages with public opinion data and analysis and information about the DevCom network's activities.
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25-Feb-2005
The European public expects the European Union to play a central role in development cooperation, especially in Africa. According to Eurobarometer, public awareness of Commission activities in this field and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is limited. It is the first time that this two-yearly opinion poll on development policy has covered the 25 EU Member States. The polling of Europeans on the MDGs is also a first, and results from a collaboration between the EC's DG Development and the OECD Development Centre, on behalf of the informal network of DAC Heads of Information.
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10-Nov-2004
Monitoring changes in public awareness and attitudes in rich countries towards aid and other international development policy issues is extremely difficult: due to lack of systematic polling or monitoring, there is no reliable, comparable data across DAC member countries. This paper suggests a way to address this problem: a common questionnaire for all DAC countries to use in their national surveys, centred on the Millennium Development Goals.
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13-Apr-2004
Citizens in OECD countries quite unambiguously support more solidarity and justice at the international level; however, despite the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their governments in 2000, they remain insufficiently informed and educated about global development challenges. With increased understanding of the issues, citizens could provide greater support for more efficient and coherent development policies as well as for more funding.
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12-Mar-2003
DEV's popular Directory of Non-Governmental Development Organisations, has been updated and made available freely on the Web. This operation was implemented in partnership with five other European governmental and non-governmental organisations.
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