The 2024 edition of the OECD Development Co-operation Report was prepared under the overall leadership of Pilar Garrido, OECD Director for Development Co-operation. Ida Mc Donnell, Head of the Research Unit of the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), provided strategic guidance and is the managing editor of the report. The report was designed and produced by a core group, including the Poverty and Inequalities team, comprised of: Eleanor Carey and Julie Seghers on concept development and co-ordination along with Isabel Davis, Harsh Desai, Carolina Guerra, Simone Hegge, Ikya Kondapolu, Olivia Lalonde, Danielle Mallon, Andrew Park, Rahul Malhotra, Frederik Matthys, and José Suárez Sarrazin. This year’s reported benefitted from the collaboration of Jenny Baracaldo Fernández, Joëlline Bénéfice and Ikya Kondapolu, managing the Development co-operation TIPs – Tools, Insights, Practices.
Special thanks go to all the contributing authors who are named throughout the report. Authors’ acknowledgements are listed within their contributions. The team is very grateful to the Directorate’s management team and colleagues across DCD who contributed to conceptual development, helped identify authors and advisors, reviewed content and gave strategic advice, with a special call out to the Environment and Climate and Gender teams. Thanks also go to collaborating OECD Directorates, in particular, the Environment Directorate, OECD Development Centre, the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, the Directorate for Employment Labour and Social Affairs, the Sahel and West Africa Club and the OECD Horizontal Project Net Zero+: Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World.
Members of the DAC and the DAC Chairman, Carsten Staur, provided direction and guidance at the conceptual and later stages of the report, notably through comments and feedback on the concept note at a formal Committee meeting in December 2023, during bilateral and collective consultations, at a multi-stakeholder workshop on preliminary findings and key themes in April 2024, and progress reports presented to the DAC in May and July 2024, through responses to the first OECD survey on DAC member approaches to targeting poverty and inequalities in development co-operation – sincere thanks for this active engagement, and support for the report’s launch in July 2024.
Members of the OECD DAC’s Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequalities (CoP-PI)’s core group provided extensive feedback throughout the process, including through the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities’ Strategic Committee meeting in April and the international conference on Inequality, Work and Nature in South Africa in November 2023 - members include representatives from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
We are deeply grateful to Susan Sachs for editing this year’s report, to Meral Gedik and Ola Kasneci for authoring layouts and work on the manuscript, to Stephanie Coic for cover design and graphics, to Polly Meeks for research support, to Jennifer Allain for proofreading; the broader communication team Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Joelle Bassoul, Karena Garnier, Dzidedi Azumah and Jessica Voorhees, Catherine Bremer, Anne-Lise Prigent and their colleagues in the OECD Communications Directorate, for editorial support and publishing, and financial administration by Sylvie Walter and Asier Ramirez de la Piscina.