This blog from Jens Sedemund, Executive Adviser at the OECD originally appeared in the Huffington Post “GIVE a man a fish and you feed him for a day, TEACH a man to fish and you feed him for life.” This may well be the most famous proverb to capture the gist of development cooperation. While

This blog originally appeared on DevEx With less than 1,400 days until the Millennium Development Goals deadline, global development experts, bureaucrats and talking heads have already begun clamoring for what’s next. It seems that halving extreme poverty and slashing child deaths by two-thirds is yesterday’s news. As if these highly ambitious goals are rapidly becoming

Sliding in just before the holidays, the OECD-DAC released its final update to the 2010 data on official development assistance (ODA) flows. The DAC — or, Development Assistance Committee — is a grouping of the world’s wealthiest donor countries. It tracks donor spending on development finance and helps coordinate development policy globally to improve spending

Jose W. Fernandez, assistant secretary of economic, energy and business affairs at the US State Department, talks to ONE in honor of the OECD’s 50th anniversary in this exclusive interview. The US is launching a new DF4D program. Could you tell us more about it? President Obama announced the new DF4D initiative this past March

Brian Atwood, chair of the DAC-OECD and former head of USAID, looks back at five decades of international development in honor of the OECD’s 50th anniversary in this exclusive interview with ONE. What is the one thing with which the DAC has changed the face of development over the last 50 years? The DAC has

This week, ministers and officials from more than 50 countries and international organizations are gathering in Paris, France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Under the theme “Better Policies for Better Lives,” this year’s annual OECD Ministerial Meeting and Forum will focus on sharing policies “to build

We have another new face on the ONE Blog, Friederike Röder. She is ONE France’s new policy manager and we are very excited to have her on board. Say hi in the comments below! Following the tradition started last year at the G8 in Canada, this year’s French presidency prepared an accountability report together with

According to new projections from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Africa will be badly hit by unfulfilled aid promises this year. The OECD reports that the continent is likely to get only about US$12bn of the US$25bn annual aid increase envisaged at the Gleneagles Summit in 2005. The main culprits singled out

A report released this morning shows that the world is falling short of the promises it made to developing nations. Each year in early April, the independent nonprofit Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports on each donor nation’s contributions to the world’s poorest people. This year’s report shows that the world is not

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