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The world is faced with a growing set of profound, urgent and global challenges. COVID-19 and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine have not only had devastating short-term consequences but have also precipitated longer-term economic and geopolitical shifts. Climate change, meanwhile, risks setting back the development progress of recent decades, particularly in the poorest countries. The international development architecture must respond to these challenges while supporting those most affected.
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For 60 years, the Development Co-operation Report has brought new evidence, analysis and ideas to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the international community more broadly, shaping policy reform and behaviour change, and promoting best practices in development co-operation. Each year, the report analyses a fresh policy issue that is timely, relevant or challenging for development co-operation policy and finance. In addition, the Development Co-operation Profiles detail aggregate and individual trends in policies, allocations and the institutional set-up for a broad range of providers, including members of the OECD and DAC as well as other countries and philanthropic foundations.
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“The times they are a-changin” was an anthem for change in the early 1960s. We publish this 60th Development Co-operation Report (DCR) when much of the world is facing crises that development co‑operation is struggling to respond to. The international development community also needs an anthem for change.
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Amid overlapping crises and unprecedented strain on aid budgets, development actors are being called on to adapt their policies, strategies and partnerships in a spirit of global solidarity and burden sharing. The Development Co-operation Report 2023: Debating the Aid System finds that debates are crystalising around the need for a fundamental rethinking of the international development system – the mandates, drivers, capacity and coherence of traditional and emerging actors – and feeding into urgent new discussions about scaling up and optimising the allocation of official development assistance (ODA) to reach goals.
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Providing the right development support at the right time and in the right places has become more difficult for international development actors. Demands on development assistance budgets are growing and finance gaps are widening. These pressures have made development co-operation the subject of healthy debate and reflection. All development actors are called on to adapt their policies, strategies and partnerships in a spirit of global solidarity and burden sharing. This overview outlines challenges and opportunities that are emerging from this rethinking of the aid system. It proposes ideas for action to overcome roadblocks to delivering existing commitments; support locally led transformation in partner countries; modernise business models and financial management practices; and rebalance power relations and find common ground for partnerships.
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