News & Events

Report from Accra HLF-3 Roundtable 4, Managing for Development Results

12-Feb-2009

Managing for Development Results (MfDR) has fundamental importance for achieving the Paris Declaration commitments. But judging by the Paris Declaration’s indicator for progress in managing for results, progress since 2005 has been modest.

Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management

12-Feb-2009

The Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management is part of the Joint Venture’s ongoing work on facilitating the implementation of the Paris Declaration (2005) as it relates to PFM. The report takes stock of progress  on using country systems in PFM and outlines recommendations on how best to achieve the 2010 targets as set out in the Paris Declaration and as we move to the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and beyond.

Integrating Gender Awareness and Equality

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.

Procurement Compendium

04-Feb-2009

Compendium of Country Examples and Lessons Learned from Applying the Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems

Volume I – Sharing Experiences

Compendium - Passation des marchés

04-Feb-2009

Ce document présente l’expérience de 22 pays d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie et les enseignements qu’ils ont tirés de l’application de la Méthodologie d’évaluation des régimes nationaux de passation des marchés proposée par l’Activité conjointe du CAD-OCDE sur la passation des marchés. La Méthodologie a été mise au point et jugée apte à être testée sur le terrain en 2006 comme un outil visant à faciliter la réalisation des objectifs de la Déclaration de Paris et à promouvoir le renforcement des systèmes de passation des marchés.

The OECD going for Better Aid

04-Feb-2009

Better Aid is the most significant group of books ever published about Aid Effectiveness. Covering topics from country systems to mutual accountability and managing aid to monitoring its progress, Better Aid goes deeper in its analysis of what is working and what is not. These publications are essentially drawn from material tabled at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, 2-4 September 2008.

Three new OECD Environment Working Papers on Governance and Capacity Development for Natural Resources and Environmental management

29-Jan-2009

In many low-income countries, natural resources (minerals, forests, fisheries, soil and water, etc.) are identified as the engines of economic growth. However, providing economic and policy-relevant information about the value of these resources and their sustainable management is a challenge. Three new reports have just been released: 1) Greening Development Planning ; 2) Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-year Budgetary Frameworks  ; and 3) Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework .

Advisory Notes on addressing key emerging issues (e.g. climate change adaptation) through Strategic Environmental Assessment

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).

Doha Financing for Development Conference

05-Jan-2009

How can the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) provide coherent reinforcement of domestic policies and international support in ways that generate viable longer term financial scenarios for developing countries? The predictability of aid and domestic revenue mobilisation were explored in this side event.

Aid Statistics in a couple of clicks

09-Dec-2008

The new Query Wizard for International Development Statistics (QWIDS) is designed to provide easy access to DAC and CRS statistics.