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The Development Assistance Committee (1961)
Formerly known as the Development Assistance Group, the DAC was created by Ministerial Resolution of 23 July 1961, with the following mandate.
a) The Committee will continue to consult on the methods for making national resources available for assisting countries and areas in the process of economic development and for expanding and improving the flow of long-term funds and other development assistance to them.
b) The Development Assistance Committee will acquire the functions, characteristics and membership possessed by the Development Assistance Group at the inception of the Organisation.
c) The Committee will select its Chairman, make periodic reports to the Council and its own Members, receive assistance from the Secretariat as agreed with the Secretary-General, have power to make recommendations on matters within its competence to countries on the Committee and to the Council, and invite representatives of other countries and international organisations to take part in particular discussions as necessary.
d) The Development Assistance Committee may act on behalf of the Organisation only with the approval of the Council.
e) In case the responsibilities of the Development Assistance Committee were to be extended beyond those set forth under a), any Member country not represented in the Development Assistance Committee could bring the matter before the Council.
The DAC has also established working parties, task forces and networks, in which DAC Members are generally represented by specialists. Their respective mandates reflect major ongoing orientations of the Committee: financial aspects of development assistance; development assistance, the environment; statistics; aid evaluation; gender equality; good governance and capacity building; conflict, peace and development; and harmonisation of donor practices.
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