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News & Events
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02-Feb-2012
Our policy guidance proposes a long-term cyclical approach to enhance capacity for greening development – an important missing link in efforts towards greening development. The guidance outlines several steps to building national capacity for greener planning, budgetary processes and key economic sector strategies. Although partner countries should own these processes, development assistance providers should also strengthen their own capacity to effectively support partner countries.
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02-Feb-2012
Every three years, we update our list of ODA-eligible countries. This year, we also prepared a factsheet that includes useful background information on the list itself.
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25-Jan-2012
Increased domestic resource mobilization is widely accepted as crucial for countries to successfully meet the challenges of development and achieve higher living standards for all their people.
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09-Jan-2012
Though the economic crisis has forced Spain to cut public spending in the past year, including to development co-operation, its aid has almost doubled since 2003. In addition to this higher quantity, the OECD’s Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of Spain commends the improved quality of its development co-operation programmes.
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15-Dec-2011
The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4, 29 November-1 December 2011, Busan, Korea) has resulted in the most inclusive agreement on global co-operation for development to date. The subjects debated at Busan ranged from the future “architecture” for development co-operation to existing − and as yet largely unmet − commitments to improve aid effectiveness. Find out more in the December issue of DACnews.
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09-Dec-2011
Greek official development assistance was USD 508 million, amounting to 0.17% of its national income, in 2010. By volume, this represents a 28% fall over the past 2 years. In its Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of Greece, the DAC recognises the constraints the country is facing and makes recommendations that will help Greece build a modern aid system.
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06-Dec-2011
New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) allocated up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15% of total official development assistance (ODA), to climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries in 2010.
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24-Nov-2011
According to OECD’s latest analysis, global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to double in the next 40 years. This would result in a 3-6 degree increase of the average global temperature by the end of the century unless governments take decisive action.
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21-Nov-2011
At the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan, Korea (29 November-1 December), world leaders will examine the opportunities and challenges presented by today’s development landscape. Their aim is to unite behind a wide consensus on a new framework to support global development.
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15-Nov-2011
Twenty-four of the developing countries that undertook the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey chose to also pilot the survey’s gender equality module. Our report compiles the main findings.
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Events
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from 28-Feb-2012 to 29-Feb-2012
This year's Global Forum will have two main aims: shaping the new OECD Strategy on Development and identifying priorities and best practices in making public expenditure more effective and efficient for development.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, OECD and the World Bank co-hosted on 27 April an international conference to formulate practical recommendations for policy implementation and programming by international and national actors in conflict-affected and fragile situations. The meeting was also an occasion to present the recently released World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development.
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from 28-Mar-2011 to 29-Mar-2011
On 28-29 March 2011, an expert workshop will take place at the OECD Paris headquarters to focus on sequencing policy reform and making policies complementary to trade reform in order to help developing countries turn trade opportunities into trade flows, and trade flows into economic growth. Consult the draft agenda.
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from 19-Oct-2010 to 20-Oct-2010
OECD is co-organizing a regional workshop on "Climate Change Finance and Aid Effectiveness: A country-led approach to strengthening the design of climate change financing modalities" in Bangkok, 19-20 October 2010.
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First global meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
from 08-Apr-2010 to 10-Apr-2010
The meeting will be hosted by the Government of Timor Leste in Dili. It will bring together all members of the International Dialogue and provide a forum for countries to present their peacebuilding and statebuilding experiences and the results from country consultations.
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INCAF Director-level Meeting
on 24-Feb-2010
The INCAF Director-level meeting will take place in Washington D.C. on 24 February 2010. This meeting will be hosted by USAID.
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from 06-Jul-2009 to 07-Jul-2009
This second monitoring report will examine recent developments, present a comprehensive analysis of donor and partner country engagement, address the regional dimension of Aid for Trade, and present country factsheets assessing the outcomes and impacts of the initiative. OECD Secretary-General A.Gurria and WTO Director-General P.Lamy will launch the report during the Second Global Review of Aid for Trade (Geneva, 06-07 July).
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on 28-Jan-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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