Development Co-operation TIPs

Tools Insights Practices

Learning together and from each other is a powerful means to improve development co-operation.

Development Co-operation TIPs ∙ Tools Insights Practices is a searchable peer learning platform that offers insights into making policies, systems and partnerships more effective. With TIPs, you can learn from the practices of other actors, and find examples on what it takes to implement OECD-DAC standards and principles. Two types of content bring you valuable experiences from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and beyond.

Fundamentals are short presentations that unpack standards and provide concrete examples of how various actors are applying them.

In practice pages describe real life responses to development challenges, with a focus on results and lessons learnt.

Development Co-operation TIPs is a living tool. We are updating its content regularly with new lessons and learning based on feedback and ongoing OECD-DAC work.

Featured content

Private sector engagement

Official development assistance (ODA) and public sector solutions alone are insufficient to achieve the SDGs. ODA providers are therefore increasingly looking at ways to engage with the private sector, and leverage its resources, expertise and...
26/04/2024
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Enabling civil society

Civil society is a key actor in the implementation of the SDGs. Yet it faces ever-growing challenges that prevent it from maximising its contribution to development and democracy. The DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society...
09/02/2024
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Evaluating development co-operation

Evaluation is the systematic and objective assessment of a planned, ongoing or completed intervention, its design, implementation and results. It focuses on results and should provide credible and useful information, enabling the incorporation of lessons...
15/11/2023
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Using budget support to respond rapidly to COVID-19 in Pacific small island developing states (SIDS)

To ensure the economic and social resilience of Pacific small island developing states (SIDS) during the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand delivered a series of emergency packages involving fiscal budget support. The funding was additional to...
13/03/2023
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Introducing development co-operation Fundamentals

Drawing on the practices of DAC members, Fundamentals unpack standards for managing development co-operation effectively. Understanding and applying standards can help all partners to achieve their commitments and ambitions. This series of short, synthetic briefs builds on synthesis and analytical work of the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD, including Peer Reviews. They will be of interest to staff in development ministries and agencies as well as other policy makers concerned with implementing effective development co-operation programmes

Forthcoming Fundamentals include evaluation, results, crises and fragility, and partnering with civil society, among other topics. Click on the headings on the right or use the search function below to view those currently available.

How does it work In practice?

In practice pages offer real life examples of how DAC members and other development co-operation actors have addressed challenges as varied as maintaining ODA commitments, enabling co-ordinated climate action, and embedding guidance on leaving no one behind – just to mention a few. They detail results and lessons learnt to help development practitioners decide if and how they could adopt a similar approach.

Use the search function below to identify the practices most relevant to you.

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