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News & Events
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30-Mar-2009
In 2008, total net official development assistance (ODA) from members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rose by 10.2% in real terms to USD 119.8 billion. This is the highest dollar figure ever recorded. It represents 0.30% of members’ combined gross national income.
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27-Mar-2009
The OECD Joint Venture on Procurement along with the Egyptian Government, the World Bank, DFID and the UNDP held a Regional Procurement Workshop in Cairo on 30, 31 March - 1 April 2009. The Joint Venture seeks to raise awareness on OECD/DAC Procurement assessment methodology, discuss roles of stakeholders in procurement assessments including civil society, private sector and donors, and share experiences and learning during and after the workshop.
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27-Mar-2009
Managing Development Resources takes stock of progress in strengthening PFM systems and also provides recommendations on how best to facilitate achieving the 2010 targets set out in the Paris Declaration. Improving the rules and institutions governing these activities should be a major component of any development approach.
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13-Mar-2009
Every year some 740 000 people die across the world because of armed violence: young men without resources, jobs or hope for the future are most at risk of turning to violence. The new OECD Publication entitled 'Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development' , provides advice to donors and policy-makers on how to reduce armed violence. Armed Violence Reduction warns that urban violence, youth gangs and criminality will continue to rise unless we all start to deal with the causes of violence.
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13-Mar-2009
At the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul, the OECD and the World Water Council will formally launch their new report on aid activities in support of water supply and sanitation 2001-2006.
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09-Mar-2009
These Guiding Principles suggest approaches and entry points for policy advisors and programme managers in both donor and partner countries to increase the prospects for achieving development results and impacts through work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Also available in French and Spanish.
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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
Evaluation tells us that more attention needs to be given to gender equality issues in evaluations of development activities. 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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24-Feb-2009
This publication is now also available in Spanish. Set against the background of the changes in aid delivery, this report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women’s empowerment in OECD DAC members’ development co-operation agencies. It presents the key findings and conclusions of a study conducted in 2006.
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