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 31 members. |
Debating the Aid System
Paris, 14 February 2023
How can we fundamentally rethink the international aid system to increase its relevance and impact?
Migration-related activities in official development assistance (ODA)
Paris, 21 December 2022
ODA to migration projects relates mainly to support given to developing countries.
New DAC Chair elected
Paris, 6 December 2022
Carsten Staur, from Denmark, is the new Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
Lithuania joins the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Paris, 16 November 2022
Lithuania has become the 31st member of the DAC. Lithuania’s official development assistance (ODA) is expected to exceed USD 100 million in 2022.
OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Hungary
Paris, 23 February 2023
Building on impressive ODA growth, Hungary is ready to further enhance its development co-operation.
The DAC mandate
The overarching objective of the DAC for the period 2018-2022 is to promote development co-operation and other relevant policies so as to contribute to implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, 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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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 31 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. |