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09-Mar-2009
Each year, 740 000 people die as a result of armed violence. Armed violence increasingly exploits a link between conflict and crime and undermines the chances of reaching the Millennium Development Goals. This publication will help aid donors - both policy advisors and programme staff - to transform good words into good programmes that can ultimately help reduce armed violence globally.
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06-Mar-2009
A valuable lesson of development evaluation is that more attention needs to be given to gender equality. While more thematic evaluations of gender equality and women’s empowerment are now taking place, progress in incorporating gender perspectives into general evaluations of development assistance has been slow and uneven.
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24-Feb-2009
The international community today is hardly in a position to avoid another genocide, as witnessed in Rwanda in 1994, despite the significant evolution of early warning systems in recent years. Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse aims to support the efforts of OECD-DAC members and other organisations active in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding to better integrate conflict early warning analysis and response into their programming.
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09-Feb-2009
New OECD DAC publication on gender and security system reform (SSR), entitled "Integrating Gender Awareness and Equality" will provide practical guidance on how to integrate a gender perspective in SSR processes and address programming gaps in this area.
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22-Jan-2009
Four specific Advisory Notes provide guidance on how to address a range of key emerging issues through the use of Strategic Environmental Assessment. The Notes supplement the OECD DAC Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
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09-Dec-2008
The new Query Wizard for International Development Statistics (QWIDS) is designed to provide easy access to DAC and CRS statistics.
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26-Nov-2008
To help ensure that the financial crisis does not create a development crisis, DAC donors have joined in an Aid Pledge – initiated by OECD - reaffirming the aid commitments they made at Gleneagles and elsewhere and agreeing to maintain aid flows consistent with them.
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OECD countries affirm commitments to aid, open trade and investment markets
26-Nov-2008
OECD countries have reaffirmed their commitments on aid to developing countries and undertaken to abstain from trade protectionism, as part of a concerted drive to shore up the world economy and combat recession.
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24-Nov-2008
Aid continued to increase in 2007, once exceptional debt relief is excluded from the figures. But the increase was only 2% on 2006. This is much too slow if donors are to meet their commitments to increase aid by 2010.
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30-Oct-2008
The Secretary-General of OECD, Angel Gurría, and the Chair of OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, Eckhard Deutscher, have issued a call to the world’s main aid donor countries to stand by their development pledges despite the economic slowdown. “Unless we act decisively now, we may not be able to prevent the financial crisis from generating an aid crisis,” Mr Gurría and Mr Deutscher warn.
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