The 2018 edition of the OECD Development Co-operation Report was prepared under the direction of Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD). Ida Mc Donnell, Senior Policy Analyst at the DCD is the Team Leader and managing editor of the Development Co-operation Report. Rahul Malhotra, Head of the Review, Results, Evaluation and Development Innovation Division, DCD provided strategic guidance and oversight.
The report and the case studies that accompany it was produced by a dedicated and productive core team - thanks to Valentina Sanna, Stacey Bradbury, Christelle Comair, Katia Grosheva, Rebecca Castaldo, Beatrice di Francesco, Claudio Cerabino and Xiao Liang. Paul Farah Cox and Cathy Jacob of Scriptoria gave editorial advice and copy-edited the report, with proof reading by Jennifer Allain, and cover design and infographics by Stephanie Coic. The French version of the report was translated by the OECD Translation Division, under the supervision of Florence Burloux-Mader and proofread by Sophie Alibert. The OECD Public Affairs and Communication Directorate produced the publication – special thanks to Anne-Lise Prigent, Carmen Fernandez Biezma, Maria David, Damian Garnys, Audrey Garrigoux, Florence Guérinot, Ghani Kadem. Thanks also to Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Rachel Scott, Erin Renner Cordell, Rory Clarke, Sala Patterson, Claudia Gemmel, Angel Alonso Arroba and Eboni Graham for editorial, communication and media relations support; and to Aline Renert-Dijan, Sylvie Walter and Melissa Sander for administrative and management support.
The Chair (former) of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka, provided direction and advice.
Special thanks go to all of the authors, who are named by chapter, and to all staff from across the Development Co-operation Directorate, including the Joint Support Team of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation and statisticians in the Finance for Sustainable Development Division as well as colleagues from across the OECD, who rallied behind this ambitious report and provided valuable inputs and support in numerous ways. Special thanks to Valérie Thielemans for her work on the figures for the country profiles. Chapters were reviewed by Holger Apel (GIZ), Froukje Boele (OECD), Hélène Djoufelkit (AFD), Susanna Gable (Sida), Lisa Hannigan (DFAT Australia), Johannes Jutting (PARIS21), Felipe Korreales (AFD), Anne Moulin (SDC), Ambar Narayan (World Bank), Rachel Scott (OECD), Ernesto Soria Morales (OECD), Julia Staudt (OECD) and Suzanne Steensen (MOPAN). Thanks to Arjan de Haan, Federico Burone and Carolina Robino of the International Development Research Centre and to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for help with case studies from developing countries.
“In My View” pieces were authored by Winnie Byanyima (Oxfam International); Dr Maria Flachsbarth (Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany); Katja Iversen (Women Deliver); Dr the Right Honourable Keith C. Mitchell (Prime Minister of Grenada); Kumi Naidoo, Coumba Toure and Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan (Africans Rising for Justice, Peace & Dignity); Gabriela Ramos (OECD); Achim Steiner (UNDP); and Ulla Tørnæs (Minister for Development Co-operation, Denmark). Thanks also to the individuals and organisations that contributed case studies on leave no one behind (published separately).
Many people were consulted to define the scope and content of this report, including through an experts workshop on what it means to leave no one behind in April 2018 and a Major Policy Issues meeting of the DAC in May 2018 on leaving no one behind, organised by the delegates of Germany and Ireland. The team would like to thank, hoping not to miss anyone, the many great experts, the members of the DCD Publications Review Board and officials from DAC membership, for their valuable advice, insights and suggestions including Yasmin Ahmad, Catherine Anderson, Jaime Atienza, Irene Basile, Ciara Begley, Joachim Beijmo, Eric Bensel, Romina Boarini, Blandine Bouniol, Olivier Cattaneo, John Egan, Cyprien Fabre, Piero Fontolan, Jason Gagnon, Gottfriend Gommingen, Tony German, Arjan de Haan, Johanna Hauf, Jenny Hedman, William Hynes, Pradeep Itty, Michael Forster, Homi Kharas, Alexander Kolev, Guillaume Lafortune, Frans Lammersen, Daniele Malerba, Marcus Manuel, Neil Martin, Sam Mealy, Kaori Miyamoto, Mario Negre, Michael Laird, Thea Lund Christiansen, Alexander Pick, Cécilia Piemonte, Judith Randel, Jan Rielander, Sebastian Rewerski, Haje Schütte, Julie Seghers, Rebecca Shaw, Elisabeth Stuart, Christina Stummer, Chantal Verger, Michael Ward, Lisa Williams, Wiebke Bartz-Zuccala and Rosie Zwart.
We were delighted to partner with Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser at Our World in Data to produce data visualisations tailor-made to the Development Co-operation Report 2018. Sincere thanks to Fredrik Ericsson for updating the model on aid fragmentation and under-aided countries.
The OECD would like to thank all DAC members and the providers of development co-operation beyond the DAC membership for fact-checking the “Profiles of providers of development co-operation” section, and for responding to the survey on DAC members’ policies and practices to “Leaving no one behind”.