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Foreword by the Secretary-General
Foreword by the DAC Chairman
Table of Contents
With impetus coming from Doha in late 2001, then Monterrey and Johannesburg. 2002 provided striking confirmation of a new strategy based on measures to combat poverty and on sustainable development in the context of enhanced partnership, as already reflected in the millennium Declaration adopted in 2000 with its Development Goals.
Section 1. This section of the Report provides an overview of DAC work in the area of Aid Effectiveness, emphasizing the linkages between the aid effectiveness agenda and the work plans of the DAC subsidiary bodies.
Section 2. Many of the issues confronting the international development community, donors and partners alike, which were examined at the 2002 DAC Development Partnership Forum on "Managing for Results and Aid Effectiveness". The main themes and outcomes of the Forum are presented in this section of the Report.
Section 3. The Monterrey Conference in March 2002 called on development co-operation agencies to intensify efforts to harmonise their operational procedures so as to reduce transaction costs and make ODA disbursement and delivery more flexible. This section of the Report examines how the DAC Task Force on Donor Practices is addressing these issues.
Section 4. This section of the Report first analyses the peer review concept and mechanisms in place throughout the OECD, and focuses in the second part on the peer review process within the Development Assistance Committee
Section 5. On the policy coherence front, following the 2001 Recommendation to untie ODA to the least developed countries, DAC members have taken action to implement its provisions. Their efforts to implement the Recommendation and to enhance policy coherence are presented in this section
Section 6. This section of the report shows what the DAC is doing in support of the key areas of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building activities.
Section 7. This section of the report provides summaries of two recent DAC meetings on difficult partnerships, the first addressing the issue in a general way, the second focusing on the specific problems confronting the reconstruction and recovery effort in Afghanistan.
Section 8. A 2002 DAC Reference Document on Poverty and Health examines these issues and develops a set of policy recommendations on the most effective ways of supporting a pro-poor health approach in partner countries. This section of the Report presents highlights from the DAC Reference Document
Section 9. Access to safe water and sanitation is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the development community. This section of the Report describes DAC members' support to developing countries in relation to this goal.
This year's report also includes a special module on the Millennium Development Goals: Progress during the 1990s.
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