This paper presents a preliminary overview of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ policy frameworks and financing efforts to address the challenges at the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and gender inequality. It reviews existing...

Six years after the private sector has been called upon to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the financing gap remains tremendously high and mobilisation figures – how much development actors mobilise from the private sector – remain stubbornly low. Mobilising commercial...

A rapidly changing world requires development co-operation providers to continuously adjust their institutional arrangements, policies, systems and processes. Yet, until today, existing tools for public policy reform had not been adapted for the sector. To fulfil this ambition, this paper draws...

This paper provides an overview of how members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are integrating gender equality and climate action objectives into their bilateral allocable official development assistance (ODA).

This report explores the global landscape of the Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-linked (GSSS) Bond market. Based on research and interviews conducted with experts from public development banks, credit rating agencies, asset managers and industry associations, the report offers...

This paper assesses what it would take for the OECD-UNDP Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development to be actively implemented by 2030. It draws from interviews conducted between November 2021 and March 2022 with representatives of donor governments, development finance institutions...

The report reviews the available evidence, which is at times scant, but generally points in a similar direction. Girls and women are often affected more negatively by environmental damage, and poor women in low income countries are typically the worst affected. The report also elucidates how...

Small family farms and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the majority of enterprises in the agri-food sector in many developing countries. These enterprises can contribute to eradicating poverty (SDG 1), achieving food and nutrition security (SDG 2), promoting inclusive growth (SDG 8),...

This report explores the ways donors can best support sustainable and effective climate-related capacity development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in terms (1) access to climate finance; (2) climate data and services; (3) working with non-governmental partners; (4) regional and...

This paper looks at the contribution of two different initiatives in the fight against corruption in oil-rich developing countries, analysing these in turn and reflecting on ways of enhancing their efficacy and maximising synergies. The role of investigative journalism on the one hand, and that...