SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Promoting development co-operation and the 2030 Agenda The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has been expanding its engagement with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two relatively new providers of development co-operation that are keen to learn from and share their experiences with DAC members. Both countries have been rapidly developing their official development assistance (ODA) institutions and activities, on both bilateral and multilateral bases. Both report their ODA activities to the OECD. Azerbaijan established the Azerbaijan International Development Agency in 2011 to manage and deliver its development co-operation assistance, while Kazakhstan is working to establish a Kazakh Agency. Kazakhstan became a DAC Invitee in 2015 and Azerbaijan became a DAC Participant in 2019. The DAC is a unique international forum where bilateral providers of development co-operation and multilateral agencies work together to improve the quantity and quality of development assistance. Regular participation in meetings
of the DAC and its subsidiary bodies help Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to share their experiences with members and to align their ODA efforts with international best practice. In addition to supporting the DAC’s engagement with Eurasia, the OECD launched a report on Financing for Development in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and is working on a policy paper on triangular cooperation that will span many countries in the region. The DAC engaged Ukraine in its Peer Review of Switzerland, which was an opportunity to discuss Switzerland’s efforts to engage in quality and effective partnerships in the country. During this process, discussions were held with the national authorities on Switzerland’s efforts to support Ukraine’s reform agenda and reach out to conflict-affected populations.
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