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In this issue...
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Donors Increase Aid - But 2006 a Challenge Member countries of the OECD DAC increased their Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 4.6% in real terms in 2004. Who is giving what? For analysis and a country break-down, click here. |
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Aid Effectiveness - What's Happening Post Paris? Over one hundred donor and developing countries agreed for the first time to measure their success at making aid more effective with a set of commitments, indicators and targets. Exactly what all the targets will look like in the final Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is still being decided. Next steps in the Paris Declaration. |
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Security & Development Ministers Clarify ODA Eligibility
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Chief of Staff to the United Nations Secretary-General, Mark Malloch Brown writes exclusively for DAC News on the links between security and poverty, making rich and poor alike vulnerable, why commitments to ODA should be a criteria for UN Security Council membership, and a role for the UN with bilateral donors...... Click here to read full article. |
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Peer Reviews Ownership the Key to Effective Aid Developing country ownership is key to poverty reduction; multi-year funding commitments not yet general practice but development success depends on aid predictability. Peer Review team reports on recent trends (PDF, 16KB). |
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In the Field - Congo: Poverty and Enterprise DAC secretariat staff spend much of their time in developing countries assessing progress towards aid effectiveness. This month, Hunter McGill, Head of the Peer Review team, reports from the Congo. See also the Aid at a Glance Chart showing recent debt relief for Congo, Democratic Republic. Charts for other recipient countries and DAC donors. |
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Recent Publications on Development
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New gender statistics released:
OECD DAC statistics. |
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