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The Development Assistance Committee (DAC, www.oecd.org/dac) is the principal body through which the OECD deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries.
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18-Dec-2008
Australia has made substantial, positive changes to its aid programme since 2004, reinforcing its focus on reducing poverty, on promoting the MDGs, and completely untying its aid programme. Its aid volume was USD 2.67 billion in 2007, representing 0.32% of its gross national income (GNI). Australia has committed to contributing 0.5% of its GNI to official development assistance (ODA) by 2015/16.
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17-Dec-2008
DAC’s engagement in fragile situations saw a step change with the launch of a new International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), bringing together the former Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation (CPDC) and the Fragile States Group (FSG) into one forum. Over the past years, these two networks had addressed challenges posed by fragile and conflict affected countries. INCAF’s work will further build upon this, but moving beyond aid management concerns to examine the substantive policy issues of security, peace building and state capacity.
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15-Dec-2008
Norway committed USD 3.7 billion to development assistance in 2007, a substantial increase over the previous year. It now gives the world’s highest level of official development assistance as a percentage of gross national income. Norway is also consistently at the forefront of donor efforts to improve the international aid system, as well as its own development policies and programmes.
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11-Dec-2008
What are the implications of the global financial crisis for countries that depend on aid? As funds become critical, will donors maintain their commitments to work to reduce conflict and fragility, promote growth for the poor and protect natural resources? The OECD-DAC is working to ensure that the current financial crisis does not become an aid crisis, diverting leaders from their development commitments, both in terms of financing and of improving the way aid is delivered and managed.
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09-Dec-2008
The new Query Wizard for International Development Statistics (QWIDS) is designed to provide easy access to DAC and CRS statistics.
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05-Dec-2008
All Tables from the 2008 Development Co-operation Report. See the latest OECD statistics that show how much aid donor country governments are giving, and to whom. How much goes to the poorest countries? How much to multilateral organisations like the United Nations? Which sectors get the most aid - economic infrastructure or social programmes?
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01-Dec-2008
Governments should crack down on tax evasion to raise tax revenues as part of broader efforts to help maintain the flow of aid to developing countries during the global economic downturn, said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría in a speech at the UN International Conference on Financing for Development.
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01-Dec-2008
For the first time the DevCom Annual Meeting was hosted by the United States. It brought together more than 65 communicators and experts, including new donors such as Israel and Thailand. The issues covered during the sessions were communicating results and aid effectiveness, new trends on the Internet, communication strategies of non-state actors, making development more media-friendly, polling for public opinion. The meeting also provided the opportunity for several members states to share best practices.
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26-Nov-2008
OECD countries have reaffirmed their commitments on aid to developing countries and undertaken to abstain from trade protectionism, as part of a concerted drive to shore up the world economy and combat recession.
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26-Nov-2008
To help ensure that the financial crisis does not create a development crisis, DAC donors have joined in an Aid Pledge – initiated by OECD - reaffirming the aid commitments they made at Gleneagles and elsewhere and agreeing to maintain aid flows consistent with them.
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24-Nov-2008
Aid continued to increase in 2007, once exceptional debt relief is excluded from the figures. But the increase was only 2% on 2006. This is much too slow if donors are to meet their commitments to increase aid by 2010.
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30-Oct-2008
The Secretary-General of OECD, Angel Gurría, and the Chair of OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, Eckhard Deutscher, have issued a call to the world’s main aid donor countries to stand by their development pledges despite the economic slowdown. “Unless we act decisively now, we may not be able to prevent the financial crisis from generating an aid crisis,” Mr Gurría and Mr Deutscher warn.
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