Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
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The OECD Development Assistance Committee is a unique international forum of many of the largest providers of aid, including 32 members. |
Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Poland 2023
8 December 2023
Poland can learn from its response to recent crises to build a more effective development assistance programme.
DAC High-Level Roundtable at COP28
3 December 2023
No country should have to choose between reducing poverty, sustainable development and net zero transitions. Read member’s renewed commitments.
DAC High Level Meeting 2023
15 November 2023
Read the communiqué.
Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Czechia 2023
2 November 2023
A strong supporter of human rights, Czechia is ready to further improve its development co-operation
The elephant in the room: In-donor refugee costs
11 May 2023
Why are DAC members reporting part of refugee costs in their own countries as Official Development Assistance (ODA)? A good question. Here’s the answer.
Foreign aid surges in 2022 due to spending on refugees in donor countries and aid for Ukraine
12 April 2023
Official development assistance (ODA) rose to an all-time high of USD 204 billion in 2022.
Debating the Aid System
Paris, 14 February 2023
How can we fundamentally rethink the international aid system to increase its relevance and impact?
The DAC mandate
The overarching objective of the Committee is to promote development co-operation and other relevant policies so as to contribute to implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including inclusive and sustainable economic development, the advancement of equalities within and among countries, poverty eradication, improvement of living standards in developing countries, and to a future in which no country will depend on aid.
What we do
We monitorOFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE |
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Search all things ODA: statistics, definitions, lists and more |
We set development co-operationSTANDARDS |
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Consult the DAC decisions, recommendations and guidelines |
We conduct regularPEER REVIEWSof our members |
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See how we hold each other to account and read the full reports |
How we work
MeetingsThe DAC holds High Level Meetings (generally every 2-3 years) whose participants are development ministers. In between High Level Meetings, the DAC convenes Senior Level Meetings (attended by heads of aid agencies) to review the Committee’s work on current policy issues. Ordinary DAC meetings are attended by Paris-based delegates of DAC members and by officials from member capitals. |
DAC Subsidiary BodiesThe DAC subsidiary bodies bring together our sectoral experts. |
Global relationsThe DAC engages with development actors beyond the Committee’s membership to improve the relevance and impact of its work. |
Members & partners
MembersThe DAC currently has 32 members. Candidate countries are assessed in terms of the following criteria: the existence of appropriate strategies, policies and institutional frameworks that ensure capacity to deliver a development co-operation programme; an accepted measure of effort; and the existence of a system of performance monitoring and evaluation.
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