In this 1996 report, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) set a number of measurable international … development goals. Subsequently, the commitment to halve world poverty became the focus of most donor organisations through the … Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Long central to UN programmes, this focus on poverty reduction became key to IMF and World …

development assistance (ODA) to formulate co-ordinated responses to allegations of significant corruption. It provides a set of … Recommendation for Development Co-operation Actors on Managing the Risk of Corruption. …

scaled up and aligned with sustainable development. Blended finance can play an essential role in unlocking and channelling … commercial finance towards sustainable development in developing countries. However, it remains a relatively new tool in … development co-operation. While many donors have well-established blended finance programs, others are just now starting to deploy …

This set of common principles for all development actors was adopted by representatives of government, multilateral … organisations, civil society, private sector, foundations and other actors in 2011. It centres on: Ownership of development … priorities by developing counties; A focus on results; Partnerships for development; Transparency and shared responsibility. …

Members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) have long recognised that sustainable development must reflect … the needs of women and men. These Guidelines from 1998 aim to advance gender issues in their development co …-operation programmes, furthering the contribution of the DAC Expert Group on Women in Development to bringing gender issues to the fore. …

both donor and partner countries, can achieve better development results by improving gender equality and supporting women …

This toolkit offers practical guidance to adherents to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Recommendation … on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance. It helps them implement the … Recommendation’s provisions pertaining to strengthening local ownership and partner-country civil society as independent development …

development rationale promoted by Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members. These Principles represent a critical first step …