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Contributions from
the Column
Focus
UK development cooperation
Dutch development cooperation reform
No development model Eastern Europe
Multilateralism versus bilateralism in foreign aid
The Utstein Group
The Millennium Development Goals
Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
03/2003
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Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is the principal body through which the Organisation deals with issues related to co-operation with developing countries. The DAC is one of the key forums in which the major bilateral donors work together to increase the effectiveness of their common effort to support sustainable development.
The DAC contributes to the efforts of its Members to back the efforts of developing countries and their people to help themselves through four principal types of activities:
1) The DAC adopts authoritative policy guidance for Members in the conduct of their development co-operation programmes.
2) The DAC conducts periodic critical reviews of ist Members’ programmes of development co-operation: Peer reviews, occurring at three-year intervals. Each review is based on investigation by the Secretariat and by examiners appointed from two Member countries.
3) The DAC provides a forum for dialogue, exchange of experience and the building of international consensus on policy and management issues.
4) The DAC publishes statistics and reports on aid and other resource flows to developing countries and countries in transition.
Source: DAC Report 2001, p. 171-172
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