This first edition of the OECD Data for Development Profiles was prepared under the overall leadership of Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD). Rahul Malhotra, Head of the Reviews, Results, Evaluation and Development Innovation Division, DCD, provided strategic guidance. Ida Mc Donnell is the team lead of DCD’s Data for Development Team.
The profiles were managed and produced by a core team comprising Ida Mc Donnell and Simon Lange, with support from Katia Grosheva, So Min Oh and Katharina Satzinger.
They were prepared for publication under the supervision of Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte and Stacey Bradbury, with graphic design by Stephanie Coic and Sara Casadevall Bellés and copy-editing by Jennifer Allain. Thanks also go to Jessica Voorhees for communications support and Janine Treves for editorial advice. The team would like to thank all DCD colleagues who provided feedback and comments, especially Eleanor Carey, Harsh Desai and Giorgio Gualberti.
Special thanks go to the numerous contributors from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member organisations – ministries, development co-operation agencies and national statistical offices – who generously gave their time to provide information, feedback and comments or helped the team find people that could. They include Alison Came, Rebecca Dodd, Robyne Leven, Siobhán Pielow and Dirk Platzen (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia); Rebecca Andric (Geoscience Australia); Micheline Gilbert, Alex Guimond; Guy Mainville and Shehryar Sarwar (Global Affairs Canada); Irina Dincu (International Development Research Centre, Canada), Cara Williams (Statistics Canada); Jacob Haugaard and Tilde Hellsten (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark); Charlotte Juul Hansen (Statistics Denmark); Avis Benes, Torbioern Carlquist, Franco Conzato, Michael-John Ellis, Fiona Herdman-Smith, Giovanni Mastrogiacomo, Andreas Papadopoulos and Maria João Santos (European Commission); Simonetta di Cori and Tiziana Pellicciotti (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation), Marina Gandolfo (Italian National Institute of Statistics); Yuuki Kitanaka, Ginga Kobayashi, Yurie Komine and Makiko Naemura (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan); Naomi Hara, Seiichi Negishi, Kensuke Tsuji (Japan International Cooperation Agency); Yeseung Lee (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea), Jandi Kim and Juho Shin (Korea Eximbank); Hege Haaland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway), Jorun Sigrid Nossum and Hege-Hope Wade (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation), Irene Tuveng and Janne Utkilen (Statistics Norway); Ewa Kwaśnik-Ciągło and Aleksandra Styś (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland), Olga Świerkot-Strużewska (Statistics Poland); Maria Manuela Oliveira Fernandes (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Portugal), Maria José Moura, Carolina Santos and Maria Conceição Veiga (Statistics Portugal); Katarina Westman and Anzee Hassanali (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency); Catherine Krüger (Statistics Sweden); Flavien Breitenmoser, Christoph Lang, Andrea Ries and Mirjam Rordorf Duvaux (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), Thomas Stauffer (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs); Benjamin Rothen (Swiss Federal Statistical Office); Rachael Beaven, Philip Cockerill, Kerstin Hinds and Neil Jackson (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom); Mark Gautrey, Emily Poskett and Marina Wright (Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom); Aubra Anthony, Christopher Burns, Rebecca Saxton-Fox, Sarah Scholz and Christophe Tocco (United States Agency for International Development); Mitchell Blaser and Agnieszka Rawa (Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States); and likely many more who have contributed unbeknownst to the team.
Financial support for the Data for Development work stream in the OECD from Switzerland and the United Kingdom is gratefully acknowledged.