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What Does It Mean for Agencies to Be Effective in a Changing Development Landscape?

Rachael Calleja et al.
January 23, 2025
For official bilateral development agencies, the realities of providing effective development cooperation are increasingly complex, as competing demands and changing international and domestic contexts are raising fundamental questions around what it means to be an effective agency. This paper explo...
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The Future of Official Development Assistance: Incremental Improvements or Radical Reform?

Masood Ahmed et al.
January 21, 2025
Official development assistance (ODA) is at a crossroads, and reform is needed to balance the original mission of poverty reduction with the growing demands of global challenges such as climate change. While there is broad agreement on the need to clarify ODA’s purpose, modernise its governance fram...
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Rethinking Development Cooperation Working Group: Triangular Cooperation for Better Partnerships?

Rachael Calleja
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Mikaela Gavas
November 21, 2024
What are the key lessons on triangular or "trilateral" partnerships? Here, we explore a discussion on helf by the Rethinking Development Cooperation Working Group.
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CGD Podcast: Building Better Development Partnerships with Santiago Quiñones Cardenas

Rachael Calleja
November 21, 2024
CGD's Rachael Calleja speaks with Santiago Quiñones Cardenas of APC Colombia, a member of the Re-thinking Development Cooperation Working Group, about the value of multidirectional learning, the importance of creating inclusive spaces for engagement, and Santiago's advice for successful triangular c...
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A Merger in the Making? What Germany Should Learn From the Department Mergers of the Past

Rachael Calleja
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Jürgen Zattler
September 25, 2024
Last month, Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) proposed merging the country’s Federal Ministry for Economic and Development Cooperation (BMZ) with its Federal Foreign Office (FO), claiming this would result in “enormous” gains in effectiveness and efficiency. This proposals raises questions about...
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Proposals for ODA Reform: A Review of Key Approaches

Rachael Calleja
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Sara Casadevall Bellés
June 28, 2024
Questions concerning the relevance and reform of official development assistance (ODA), and how ODA and broader development finance could—or should—change to better reflect shifting demands are not new, with academics and policymakers suggesting a range of options for reform. In this background note...
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The Evolution of the ODA Accounting Rules

Sara Casadevall Bellés
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Rachael Calleja
June 28, 2024
Frequent efforts to revise the official development assistance (ODA) accounting rules have raised important questions about the integrity and relevance of what currently “counts” as ODA spending. In this note, we outline a brief history of the evolution of the ODA accounting rules to date, highlight...
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The Future and Reform of ODA: Lessons from an Expert Working Group

Rachael Calleja et al.
June 19, 2024
Development finance has grown in volume and complexity, but official development assistance (ODA)—defined by the OECD’s development assistance committee (DAC)—remains at its core in both a substantive and political way. Although it makes up a shrinking share of total financing for development, ODA i...
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How Well Do Development Finance Institutions and Bilateral Agencies Cooperate on Development?

Sara Casadevall Bellés et al.
March 20, 2024
Development finance institutions (DFIs) and bilateral development agencies play different yet complementary roles that ultimately aim to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. But questions remain about how well this relationship works in practice. Recent analysis suggests that DFI and developme...
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The Rethinking Development Cooperation Working Group: Lessons on Partnership Building

Rachael Calleja
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Mikaela Gavas
February 23, 2024
The Rethinking Development Cooperation (RDC) Working Group has established itself as a novel informal forum for building partnerships and strengthening learning both from, and about, participating agencies. We reflect on the first year of this new initiative; highlight key lessons from the group’s f...
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