OECD reviews Germany's development aid

21/12/2005 - The OECD's Development Assistance Committee welcomed the new German government's affirmation that it will increase aid from the present 0.28% of Gross National Income to 0.51% by 2010 and 0.7% by 2015. The Committee warned, however, that to make this commitment effective Germany must begin now to mobilise the necessary funding.

The Committee's review of Germany's aid policies and programmes made numerous recommendations to increase aid effectiveness. These included greater efforts towards poverty reduction, joining-up the various bodies within the German government now responsible for aid, and streamlining delivery in developing countries.

Read the main findings and recommendations of the report on Germany.

The OECD's Development Assistance Committee, which groups major aid donors that are members of the OECD, issued the Main Findings and Recommendations of the report on Germany as part of a regular series of its members aid policies and programmes. The German delegation attending the review meeting on 13 December was headed by Dr. Michael Hofmann, Director General of the Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) and the review was overseen by two other member countries, France and Netherlands.

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