Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework

The paper provides a synthesis of major elements and approaches of institutional assessment that may be applied to environmental management.

Related Documents

• OECD Environment Working Paper: Greening Development Planning
• Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-Year Budgetary Frameworks

Strategic Financial Planning for Water Supply and Sanitation

This report reviews good practices in strategic financial planning in OECD and developing countries and summarises key lessons for policy makers and practitioners.

Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-Year Budgetary Frameworks

How do multi-year budgetary processes work in practice in developed an developing countries? This paper identifies opportunities for and limits to financing environmental management.

Related Documents

• Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework
• OECD Environment Working Paper: Greening Development Planning

Major donors adopt plan to support poor countries in crisis during the High Level Meeting at OECD on 27-28 May 2009

Members of Development Assistance Committee and Non-DAC OECD donors, the world’s major donor countries, have, at the High level meeting on 27 and 28 May 2009, adopted an Action Plan to support poor countries trying to cope with the economic and financial crisis.

Related Documents

• Action Plan to support poor countries trying to cope with the economic and financial crisis

The role of ODA in the area of climate change

Current financing for climate change adaptation and mitigation is clearly insufficient and the development co-operation community needs to think through its implications and come up with forceful responses, according to the OECD Secretary-General.

Innovative financing perspectives in the new global economic outlook

According to Mr. Gurría, the number working poor living with less than 2 dollars a day can increase by more than 100 million and the number of hungry people in the world can increase by another 104 million by the end of the year, making urgent the issue of the financing for development.

OECD’s review of Austria’s development co-operation

Austria’s official development assistance (ODA) was 0.42% of its gross national income (GNI) in 2008, putting it in 11th place among OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors.

Austria (2009) DAC Peer Review - Main Findings and Recommendations

With Austria’s official development assistance (ODA) at 0.42% of its gross national income (GNI) in 2008 (preliminary data) Austria was in 11th place among OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors. Austria’s net ODA fell by 14% to USD1.7 billion from 2007 to 2008, due to a lower level of debt relief grants provided in 2008. Debt relief made up 50% of Austria’s ODA during the period 2005 - 2007 and more than 40% in 2008,

Related Documents

• Austria (2004), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations
• List of Peer Reviews of DAC Members

2nd OECD-Southeast Asia Regional Forum: Enhancing Competitiveness through Regional Integration

Government officials from ASEAN countries and investment experts gathered to discuss on various efforts to create a more attractive investment climate in Southeast Asia at the Forum. OECD’s investment instruments and peer review methods were presented and well received by participants as they can help advance their own agenda of investment policy reforms. The Forum took place in Bangkok, Thailand on 27-28 April 2009.

Policy Brief: Measuring the Pulse of Africa in Times of Crisis

Only a year ago Africa’s economic growth prospects seemed historically bright. But what effect has the global crisis had? The international environment facing Africa1 has turned decisively negative. GDP in the OECD countries is expected to contract by 4.3% in 2009 and to be virtually flat in 2010.