OECD-DAC

In answer to the call expressed within the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to mobilise all available resources –domestic and foreign, public and private– in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) develops a new work stream on transition finance to explore the evolution and interaction of public (official development assistance […]

The ultimate purpose of development co-operation is to achieve results, which means to bring tangible and sustainable change for people, societies and the environment. For this to happen, results-based management calls for development actors to set clear objectives with expected results, targets and indicators, and a system to measure how they are performing against their

The ultimate purpose of development co-operation is to achieve results, which means to bring tangible and sustainable change for people, societies and the environment. For this to happen, results-based management calls for development actors to set clear objectives with expected results, targets and indicators, and a system to measure how they are performing against their

Statistics based on DAC Members’ reporting to the Creditor Reporting System database (CRS) According to the Report, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are playing a major role in the framework of sustainable development, namely for improving economic, social and political conditions in developing countries. An activity is characterized as aid to CSOs when the core contributions

Multilateral and bilateral development agencies are increasingly turning to blended finance as a means of mobilising private resources to address investment needs in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the potential role of blended finance in achieving the SDGs. Blended finance comprises various instruments and

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts periodic reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts of DAC members. The policies and programmes of each DAC member are critically examined approximately once every five years. The objectives of DAC peer reviews are to improve the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation policies and systems, and to

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This publication is a sequel to the OECD 2015 report on Social Impact Investment (SII), Building the Evidence Base, which set out a distinct typology and framework for social impact investing to differentiate between SII and conventional investments, particularly in terms of explicit and measurable impact goals.  Social Impact Investment is predicated on the intention

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This report presents the results of the Survey on applying the eight building blocks of PCSD in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, carried out on a voluntary basis among members of the informal network of national focal points for policy coherence in 2018. PCSD can be defined as an approach and policy tool to