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 …

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. …