The 2021 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 DCD’s Reviews, Results, Evaluation and Development Innovation Division, 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, Katharina Satzinger, Marc Cortadellas Mancini, Kristina Mazurenko, Sara Casadevall Bellés, Natalie Corry, Stephanie Coic and Jessica Voorhees.
Special thanks go to the contributing authors named throughout the report.
Members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and DAC Chair Susanna Moorehead provided direction and guidance, notably through feedback on the concept note in March 2021, participation in bilateral and collective consultations over April and May 2021 and multi-stakeholder workshops in June 2021, and feedback on a progress report presented to the DAC in October 2021. Special thanks to digital leads and experts from OECD membership from Belgium, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and to partners at DIAL, UNCTAD and UNDP. Consulting firm Impact Basis provided support for multi-stakeholder workshops in June and September.
DAC members and other providers of development co-operation fact-checked the development co-operation provider profiles, which are synthesised in the At a Glance infographics compiled by Sara Casadevall Bellés and Jonas Thyregod Wilcks in collaboration with the Directorate’s teams for financing, peer reviews and outreach. Development co-operation and ICT ministries and agencies in Colombia, Estonia, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States provided case studies for the report, also featured on the Development Co-operation Tools, Insights, and Practices (TIPs) platform (https://www.oecd.org/development-cooperation-learning).
Susan Sachs edited the report with Misha Pinkhasov. Jennifer Allain and Misha Pinkhasov did the proofreading. Stephanie Coic created the cover design and graphics. 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, Kerri Elgar, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Joelle Bassoul, and Paul Gallagher for editorial and communication support, and to Sylvie Walter and Rebecca Hart for administrative and management support.