DAC High Level Meeting - Essential Reading

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Meeting documentation

- ODA Statistics for 2003 and ODA Outlook
Meeting the Rome Commitments on Harmonisation and Alignment for Aid Effectiveness
Second International Roundtable on "Managing for Development Results", 4-5 February 2004, Marakech, Morocco
Implementing the 2001 DAC Recommendation on Untying Official Development Assistance to the Least Developed Countries. 2004 Progress Report
Mobilising Public Opinion Against Global Poverty
The Security and Development Nexus: Challenges for Aid
Security System Reform and GovernanceWorking with other policy communities on the development role of trade, investment, agriculture, migration and remittances, SMEs and the private sector

Mobilising Public Opinion Against Global Poverty. Development Centre Policy Insights series.
- Managing for Development Results. Marrakech, February 2004, Press Release.

DAC reference documents and publications

DAC Guidelines:
-  Integrating the Rio Conventions into Development Co-operation (Aug 2002)
-  Strengthening Trade Capacity for Development (Oct 2001)
-  Strategies for Sustainable Development (Nov 2001)
-  Poverty Reduction (Dec 2001)
-  Helping Prevent Violent Conflict (Dec 2001)

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series:
-  Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (Apr 2003)
-  Poverty and Health (Apr 2003)
-  A Development Co-operation Lens on Terrorism Prevention (Oct 2003)

Other key publications:
Development Co-operation Report 2003
-  Shaping the 21st Century: The Contribution of Development Co-operation (1996)
Public Opinion and the Fight against Poverty (2003)
-  The Influence of Aid in Situations of Violent Conflict.  Security Issues and Development
Co-operation: A Conceptual Framework for Enhancing Policy Coherence
 (2001)

Policy Briefs
-  Security System Reform and Governance: Policy and Good Practice
Helping Prevent Violent Conflict
Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Key Actions
-  Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals

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