Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Ecosystem Services

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17-Dec-2008

This is one in a series of Advisory Notes that supplement the OECD DAC Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). It discusses how to integrate the consideration of ecosystem services into SEAs of policies, plans and programmes (PPPs) at various levels.

Is it Official Development Assistance (ODA)?

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03-Nov-2008

This note helps donors to decide whether a particular expenditure qualifies as official development assistance (ODA).  It supplements the DAC Statistical Reporting Directives.

Calculation of the grant element of aid loans

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03-Oct-2008

The grant element reflects the financial terms of a transaction: interest rate, maturity and grace period. Only loans with a grant element above 25% qualify as ODA/OA. The attached document includes the ...

Revised official list of MDG targets and indicators

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25-Aug-2008

The official list of MDG targets and indicators was revised on 15 January 2008.

Incentives for Aid Effectiveness in Donor Agencies: Good Practice and Self-Assessment Tool

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22-Aug-2008

This report addresses need and aims to provide donor agencies with guidance on how to improve aid effectiveness, and to assist them in identifying their strengths, weaknesses and gaps in incentives for promoting aid effectiveness.

Directives for reporting to the aid activity database (Creditor Reporting System)

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19-Aug-2008

Specifies the resource flows covered in the database, provides information on the main uses of the data, gives practical instructions for data compilers. Available in PDF.

OECD methodology for calculating imputed multilateral ODA

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21-Jul-2008

DAC statistics are primarily designed to measure donor effort. The following note describes the OECD DAC’s methodology for calculating imputed multilateral flows, that is imputing aid by multilateral ...

Information Note on the DAC Deflators

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11-Jul-2008

The DAC deflators adjust for both price and exchange rate changes, so that all flows, from all donors, in all years, are expressed in terms of a readily understood fixed unit of measurement - the purchasing ...

Policy Statement on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), endorsed by the 2008 DAC High-Level Meeting

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23-May-2008

This document highlights the progress achieved by donors and developing country partners in applying SEA approaches, as called for by "The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness", and outlines key challenges for the future. It was endorsed by OECD Development Ministers in May 2008.

Statement of Progress on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation, endorsed by the 2008 DAC High-Level Meeting

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23-May-2008

This document aims to highlight the progress achieved by DAC donors in integrating climate change  adaptation into their operations and outlines key challenges for the future. It was endorsed by OECD Development Ministers in May 2008.

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