February 2024 ODAReform.org Newsletter Dear Friends, If it is not too late, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. As some of you know, my own involvement in the campaign to clean up ODA accounting has been extremely limited over the past few months while I was working on an interim but full-time basis with a charity. Nevertheless, we have not been idle. Recent Developments Since the June 2023 Newsletter, my main collaborators on this site, Hedwig Riegler a

June 2023 ODAReform.org Newsletter Dear Friends, It is now one month since we launched the website ODAReform.org to support our campaign...

Welcome to the new ODAReform.org website. Please do take some time to look around the different sections, including a recounting of the...

Steve Cutts’s first letter to DAC Chair Susanna Moorehead, 18 February 2022: flaws in ODA loan accounting, climate finance impacts and six recommendations for reform.

Stephen J Cutts’s February 2022 paper on ODA loan accounting: five methodological flaws, six recommendations, climate finance implications and all nine annexes.

Stephen J. Cutts answers 21 questions on ODA loan accounting, discount rates, debt relief, donor effort and climate finance in this original February 2022 Q&A.

Steve Cutts’s second letter to the DAC Chair, 25 March 2022, compares recorded ODA with alternative loan estimates for four major lenders and renews calls for reform.

Steve Cutts’s personal record of his May 2022 meeting with WP-STAT and OECD officials, covering ODA loan discount rates, debt relief, credit risk and governance.

Steve Cutts’s third letter to the DAC Chair, 5 July 2022, raises five concerns about ODA accounting and calls for an independent statistical review.

The 24 October 2022 letter from Stephen Cutts, Hedwig Riegler and Simon Scott challenges the OECD FAQ and calls for an independent review of ODA accounting.

Steve Cutts responds to all 12 OECD FAQs on ODA modernisation, examining loans, debt relief, discount rates, equity investments and vaccine donations in October 2022.

Steve Cutts recounts the ODA reform campaign’s coverage in Brookings, the Financial Times, Oxfam, the Guardian and Devex, with its climate finance comparison.