Early tomorrow morning, the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will release preliminary foreign aid, or “official development assistance” (ODA) numbers for 2007 for the 22 member countries of the committee. The release will estimate how much each of these governments gave to poor countries in 2007.

Right after the DAC numbers are published, check to the ONE Blog tomorrow for our initial findings on how donor countries are doing on their promises to increase foreign aid, and more specifically, double aid to Africa by 2010.

In June, before the G8 Summit in Japan, we’ll release the 2008 DATA Report, which is a full analysis of how the G8 countries are doing on their aid promises to Africa.

Some more background on the DAC nummbers:

As part of their membership in the OECD/DAC, donor countries must report these figures each year and allow the OECD to release them. Each year, the DAC releases preliminary numbers in April for the previous year (in this case 2007) and then releases final numbers in December.

The members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) include all G8 countries as well as other wealthy countries. They full list:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

-Sara Rogge, ONE Senior Trade Advisor

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