News & Events

Report from the Latin American and Caribbean regional workshop on Harmonisation and Alignment

17-Jan-2007

The Regional Workshop on Harmonization and Alignment for Latin America and the Caribbean: Exercising Leadership to Accelerate Change, was held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on October 9 through 11, 2006. This workshop was to review and reinforce the implementation of the Paris Declaration at the country level.

DAC Evaluation Quality Standards (for test phase application)

20-Dec-2006

The DAC Evaluation Quality Standards identify the key pillars needed for a quality evaluation process and product. They have been prepared by DAC members in order to define member countries' expectations of evaluation processes, and evaluation products.
 

Guidance for Managing Joint Evaluations

19-Dec-2006

This publication is the second of the DAC Evaluation Series. It is a practical guide for managers of joint evaluations of development assistance programmes. It reflects the evolution of development co-operation towards broader partnerships and, specifically, joint evaluations undertaken with the participation of developing country partners.

OECD Review of United States Development Assistance Programmes

15-Dec-2006

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee review of U.S. aid, including humanitarian assistance, noted many changes following the events of 11 September 2001. Development is now part of the foundation of the U.S. National Security Strategy. The DAC urged that there should be more explicit focus within the Strategy on poverty reduction.

Whole of Government Approaches in Fragile States

13-Dec-2006

The future of fragile and failing states have increasingly become a preoccupation of the international community. Fragile states face problems in a wide range of domains, indicating the need for a mix of actors,instruments, incentives and interventions. Political, security, economic and social spheres are interdependent: failure in one risks failure in all.  A 'whole of government approach' (WGA) to fragile states has become imperative.

This study assesses existing WGAs and lays out the rationale for using such a WGA in fragile states and addresses common challenges.

Policy Dialogue meeting in Istanbul with OECD Members outside the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

12-Dec-2006

In a Policy Dialogue meeting in Istanbul, on 12-13 October, DAC donors and emerging OECD donors who are not members of the DAC discussed questions of how to augment the capacity of emerging donors while engaging in joint work with  the Committee and its Members.

DAC Chair calls on donors to deliver on their Gleneagles commitments

06-Dec-2006

Final data on aid flows in 2005 reveal that underlying aid flows to the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa have stalled. Official development assistance from members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, which groups the world’s major donors, reached USD 106.8 billion in 2005, a record high.

OECD Review of Greek Development Assistance Programmes 

30-Nov-2006

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee commends both the Greek government’s move to strengthen its aid policies and development co-operation system and its humanitarian assistance to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

2006 Asia Regional Forum

06-Nov-2006

The summary for the 2006 Asian Regional Forum on Aid Effectiveness is now available. The objective of this 3 day event was to facilitate implementation of the Paris Declaration in the Asian and Pacific regions at the political level as well as at the working level among Asian and Pacific partner countries and donors.