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Climate Finance: What Needs to be Done!
This special ODAReform page contains three articles about the measurement of climate finance. - The first, by Steve Cutts, identifies the key problems with the $100 billion per year climate finance target and the lessons they offer for any follow-up target. - The second, by Simon Scott, discusses the pros and cons of four published methods of measuring financial flows against the $100 billion pledge. - The third, by Hedwig Riegler, discusses the practical problems of developi
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Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Brussels Declaration on Measuring Official Development Assistance
An international group of experts on the measurement of aid and other resource flows to developing countries met in Brussels, Belgium on...
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Nov 1, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: 1st Letter to DAC Chair, February 2022
This was the first letter I sent to the DAC Chair drawing on the findings of the paper I attached, "Credit Where Credit's Due", setting...
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May 5, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: Credit Where Credit's Due, February 2022
This was the first paper I sent to the DAC Chair in February 2022
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May 4, 20231 min read
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Simon Scott: Statistical No-Nos, May 2023
The DAC’s ODA rules are now logically and ethically invalid – here’s why
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May 4, 20231 min read
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May 3, 20230 min read
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Hedwig Riegler: Governance of ODA accounting – no substantial ODA reform without governance reform
This guest piece, by Hedwig Riegler, former Chair of the OECD/DAC's Working Party on Development Finance Statistics calls for a fresh...
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May 1, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: Point-by-point response to the OECD FAQ defending ODA accounting, October 2022
This is the annex that I attached to my letter to the OECD DSG
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Apr 29, 20231 min read
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