OECD-DAC

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

In 2015, UN member states approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that integrates the economic, social and environmental pillars of development within 17 intricately interdependent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to the 2030 Agenda is a pledge to meet the Goals for all, leaving no one behind, and endeavouring to reach the furthest behind

The OECD’s edition “Multilateral Development Finance – Towards a New Pact on Multilateralism to Achieve the 2030 Agenda Together”, published in November 2018, contributes to the broader international debate on why we need multilateralism and how to make it more effective in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda. At a time when the value of

In September 2015, international leaders agreed on a new global development agenda comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030: “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. This report aims to help development co-operation providers better grasp the implications of the 2030 Agenda for their sector strategies,

The final session of the 4th Peer Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of Greece by DAC/OECD, (Paris, Wednesday 28 November 2018), took place successfully and with significant participation (22 out of 30 DAC members). The final session was chaired by DAC’s Vice Chair, Mr. D. Rogers, and Greece was represented, at the