APEC-OECD Seminar: Working Together on Investment for Development

Organised by the OECD in co-operation with APEC, this seminar took place on 14-15 November 2005 in Busan, Korea. Discussions focused on defining investment for development and how to encourage greater investment mobility.

Encouraging linkages between small and medium-sized companies and multinational enterprises

OECD member governments actively seek to enhance the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), including in the context of development. They are committed to debating this issue with non-OECD countries, inter alia in the context of the OECD Bologna Process, and the Initiative on Investment for Development and its Policy Framework for Investment project. The present document is intended as a contribution by the Investment

Workshop on the Investment and Business Climate in the Russian Federation: A Regional Perspective

This workshop, which took place in St Petersburg on 9-10 November 2005, addressed the role and responsibilities of the Russian regions in shaping the investment and business environment and considered business integrity and private-public interaction in the fight against corruption.

Conference on Investment for Development: Making It Happen

This conference, which took place from 25-27 October 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed to draw lessons from Brazil’s experience with improving the enabling environment for investment and sustainable growth. It also focused on strengthening developing country perspectives on the Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) and practitioners' input into its individual chapters.

Public-Private Dialogue: Panacea or Fake Solution?, OECD Development Centre Seminar, 14 October 2005, Paris

This meeting brought together donor and private sector representatives in order to examine the how PPD can best be used to contribute to improvements in public policy in developing countries. The focus was on pinpointing the key conditions for the successful implementation of such dialogue and identifying the risks that can be associated with it, especially in situations of weak and inappropriate institutional development.

Development Gateway Newsletter September 2005

Development Gateway Newsletter September 2005

Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness was endorsed on 2 March at the Second High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.

Related Documents

• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (Arabic)
• Déclaration de Paris
• Paris Declaration (German)
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (Japanese)
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (Moldovian)
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (Portuguese)
• Paris Declaration (Russian)

Progress Report on the Activities of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO)

Progress Report on the Activities of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO)

What is a Peer Review?

The main objective of Peer Reviews is to encourage positive change, support mutual learning and raise the overall effectiveness of aid throughout the donor community. Often this goal is attained.

Related Documents

• Peer reviews in development co-operation
• Policy Brief: Peer Review: a Tool for Co-operation and Change
• Effective Aid Management: Twelve Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews
• Managing Aid: Practices of DAC Member Countries (Better Aid Series)
• DAC Peer Reviews and Harmonisation and Alignment - Overview and Findings in 2004

Overview of the Network's current work on aid for trade

Overview of the Network's Current Work on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding