Aid for investment in infrastructure in Africa

This project aims to better understand how aid can leverage private investment in Africa’s infrastructure. Given the importance of investment in this sector, it analyses how aid can help African governments improve the enabling environment and mitigating the risks to investors.

Millennium Development Goals

A Development Centre Study published by the OECD in April 2012 informs the funding debate of the MDGs and the scope of increased domestic resource mobilisation.

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OECD Strategy on Development - C-MIN(2012)6

The main goal of the Strategy is to strengthen OECD’s contributions to “higher and more inclusive growth in the widest array of countries”, making full use of the OECD evidence-based approaches to improve policy making and economic reform for developing and developed countries.

Aid predictability

For developing countries, uncertainty about funding can stand in the way of longer-term reforms. For donors, lack of transparency makes it harder to harmonise efforts.To promote transparency, we conduct annual surveys of donors' spending plans for the following years.

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• Country Programmable Aid (CPA)

SIGI 2012 Brochure

This document sets out a summary of the 2012 SIGI framework and methodology, the overall rankings for 2012, analysis for each region and an overview of how the SIGI can be used.

Tackling the policy challenges of migration: regulation, integration, and development

This book contributes to the current debate on international migration by focusing on three elements in the standard policy dialogue: the regulation of migration flows, the integration of immigrants, in particular in developing countries, and the impact of labour mobility on development.

European Union - DAC Peer Review of Development Co-operation

The European Union is a major player in global development, co-ordinating coherent actions amongst its 27 member states and providing direct support to developing countries. Total net ODA by all 27 EU member states was USD 73.6 billion in 2011. Grants by EU institutions totalled USD 12.6 billion.

Special Review of Slovenia's Development Co-operation (2011)

Slovenia has put in place many of the important building blocks for its programme, including the legal foundations, a statement of priorities and a consolidated budget for ODA.

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• DAC Global Relations
• Special Review of the Slovak Republic's Development Co-operation (2011)
• Poland (2010) DAC Special Review: Poland should strengthen its development co-operation
• DAC Special Review of the Republic of Korea's Development Co-operation
• Czech Republic (2007), DAC Special Review of the Czech Republic's Development Co-operation
• What is a Peer Review?
• Effective Aid Management: Twelve Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews

Development: Aid to developing countries falls because of global recession

Major donors’ aid to developing countries fell by nearly 3% in 2011, breaking a long trend of annual increases. Disregarding years of exceptional debt relief, this was the first drop since 1997.

Towards Better Humanitarian Donorship

This publication outlines the 12 most important humanitarian lessons from the DAC peer reviews and profiles examples of good donor behaviour.

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• Lessons on managing aid
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• Better Aid series
• Managing Aid: Practices of DAC Member Countries