This report was prepared under the overall leadership of Pilar Garrido, OECD Director for Development Co-operation Directorate, and Riad Ragueb Ahmed, Director of the Cooperation and Capacity Development Department of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and under the co-ordination of Ana Fernandes, Former Head of the Foresight, Outreach and Policy Reform Unit of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate. Nadine Piefer-Söyler (OECD), Muntasir Majdoub Hamid Ahmed, Moncef Soudani (IsDB), and Hetty Kovach (independent consultant) are the lead authors, with the support of Elisabeth Hoch (independent consultant), Alexander Ataordi (OECD), and Libby Swanepoel and Courtney Anderson (both of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia).
The authors are grateful to the peer reviewers and colleagues for their invaluable feedback and inputs to this report: Ulrich Müller of Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and Thomas Böhler of OECD. Rafal Kierzenkowski (OECD, Office of the Secretary-General), Eric Bensel, Marisa Berbegal Ibáñez, Julia Benn, Yasmin Ahmad, Andrzej Suchodolski and Juan Casado-Asensio (OECD), Sameh Hussein (IsDB), Ahmed Faruk Diken (IsDB), Aminuddin Mat Ariff (IsDB), Kadir Basboga (IsDB), Camel Aribi (IsDB), Adamou Mayaki (IsDB), Faquaruddin Mehmood (IsDB), and Bradley Todd Hiller (IsDB), also provided valuable inputs to the chapters. On communications, Ola Kasneci and Stephanie Coïc (both OECD) and Abdikadir Abdi (IsDB) provided tireless support, with overarching publication advice from Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte (OECD). The authors also thank Najat Lachal (OECD) for administrative support and Susan Sachs (independent consultant) for editorial support.
The participants in two foresight and triangular co-operation workshops provided interesting views and new ideas for the future of triangular co-operation, and their participation and feedback on the draft of chapter 1 are gratefully acknowledged.
Thanks also to Fatoumia Ali Bazi, Director General of the Comoros Agency for International Cooperation (ACCI) and Maria João Da Rocha Martins, Executive Director of Efrican, as well as Geovana Zoccal from the Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) on Effective Triangular Co-operation and Rita Walraf, Deputy Head of Division, policy issues of sectoral and bilateral development cooperation, emerging economies, at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The authors are grateful to the Portuguese government for its financial support and for their continued partnership in organising the international meetings on triangular co-operation in Lisbon; the in-kind contributions from GIZ providing inputs on technical diplomacy and the future of triangular co-operation; and inputs from the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).