Switzerland - DAC Peer Review of Development Co-operation

Switzerland has a long tradition of international assistance; its aid to humanitarian causes and multilateral donors serves as lessons in good practice. Switzerland also contributes to international thinking on governance and development in fragile situations.

Policy Brief: Health: Improving Policy Coherence for Development

The cost of treating disease is vastly greater than the cost of controllingor preventing disease. In a time of global recession, the disparity in healthoutcomes between developed and developing countries will most likelywiden. The rapid expansion in trade, foreign investment and internationaltravel mean that infectious diseases can have adverse effects not only onhealth but also on economic growth and security. Although aid from

Policy Ownership and Aid Conditionality in the Light of the Financial Crisis

Debates on aid conditionality tie intimately with those over the perceived failure of aid, particularly in Africa, to catalyse the kind of development that had been expected.

G20 Trade and Investment Measures - OECD, WTO and UNCTAD report, 14 September 2009

This report provides a brief overview of recent trends in global trade and investment flows, deals with trade and trade-related measures and investment and investment-related measures. It was prepared in response to the request of the G20 to the WTO, together with other international bodies, within their respective mandates, to monitor and report publicly on G20 adherence to undertakings on "resisting protectionism and promoting

Survey on the levels of decentralisation to the field in DAC members’ development co-operation system

The survey comprised 4 topics: policy, financial authority, staffing and roles and systems. Nineteen DAC members responded and the main findings are presented in the document with a summary of each member’s survey results in the Annex 1.

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Employment

The report invites donors to support more fully developing country’s employment objectives and to pay more attention to the employment consequences of their aid expenditures.

Related Documents

• Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Social Protection and Employment - Policy Statement and Policy Guidance Note on Social Protection
• Social Protection
• Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Statement (2006)
• POVNET - Promoting Pro-Poor Growth
• POVNET - Agriculture
• POVNET - Infrastructure
• POVNET - Private Sector Development

2009 Annual Report on PCD

2009 annual report on PCD

PROGRESS REPORT ON OECD'S WORK ON POLICY COHERENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT

The Progress Report on PCD was presented at the 24-25 June 2009 MCM

Assessing progress on implementing the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action

Monitoring, evaluating and documenting progress were key commitments of the Paris Declaration and were reiterated in the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA). Here is an overview of the efforts to assess this progress.

Progress Report on Policy Coherence for Development for Council

progress report for Council C(2009)66