The 2020 edition of the OECD Development Co-operation Report 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 and managing editor of the report.
The report and at a glance profiles were managed and produced by a core team comprising: Eleanor Carey, Jonas Thyregod Wilcks, Stacey Bradbury, Sara Casadevall Belles, Claudio Cerabino, Stephanie Coic, Jessica Voorhees and Katharina Satzinger and Autumn Lynch.
Special thanks go to all the contributing authors, who are named in the table of contents. Members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and DAC Chairwoman, Susanna Moorehead, provided direction and guidance at the conceptual and later stages of the report, notably at a brainstorming session in May 2020, through collective and bilateral discussions, research interviews, and survey responses for Chapters 4 and 9. DAC members and other providers of development co-operation fact-checked the “Profiles of providers of development co-operation”, which are synthesised in the At a Glance infographics, compiled by Sara Casadevall Belles.
The team and authors of Chapters 4 and 9 gathered rich evidence, experiences and reflections on the COVID-19 crisis from the COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition; the DAC Peer Learning Series COVID‑19: Preparing, Learning, Absorbing and Responding; and informal meetings of chief economists of international development agencies, which were convened by the OECD with key partners. Senior managers in development co-operation ministries and agencies contributed from Australia, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States and written inputs were received from Korea and the United Kingdom. The chapters also drew from a DAC foresight exercise and member contributions to the OECD-DAC networks and communities of practice covering development evaluation, governance, gender, environment and climate; the International Network for Conflict and Fragility; the Results Community; and the Community of Practice on Civil Society, as well as the DAC Informal Reference Group on Effective Development Co-operation. The following experts and colleagues provided inputs and reviewed these and other chapters: Aussama Bejraoui, Julia Benn, Marisa Berbegal Ibanez, Emily Bosch, Eleanor Carey, Juan Casado-Asensio, Claudio Cerabino, Marilyn Cham, Guillaume Delalande, Kerri Elgar, Cyprien Fabre, Ana Fernandez, Jenny Hedman, Tomas Hos, Megan Kennedy‑Chouane, Martin Kessler, Shashwat Koirala, Rahul Malhotra, Ida Mc Donnell, Santhosh Persaud, Cécile Sangaré, Amélie Schmidt‑Ott, Rold Schwartz, Rachel Scott, Henri‑Bernard Solignac Lecomte, Marc de Tollenare, Jonas Thyregod Wilcks, Lisa Williams, Jacqueline Wood and Sandie Xu. Thanks also to Andrea Ordóñez, Director, Southern Voice for helping with case studies.
Susan Sachs edited the report, Jennifer Allain did the proofreading and Marilyn Smith provided editorial support. Cover design and infographics are 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. Thanks to Janine Treves, Audrey Garrigoux, Florence Guérinot, Claudia Tromboni and Jonathan Dayot at the OECD Public Affairs and Communication Directorate for editorial advice and publishing. Thanks also to Erin Renner Cordell, Eric Bensel, Alexa Owens and James Purcell for editorial and communication support, and to Sylvie Walter and Virginie Buschini for administrative and management support.