The Multilateral Development Finance Report 2020 was prepared by the Financing for Sustainable Development (FSD) division of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD). It is part of the directorate’s work on multilateral development co-operation. The report was prepared by a team comprised of Jieun Kim, Franziska Fischer, Edoardo Bollatti, Arnaud Pincet and Abdoulaye Fabregas, under the overall supervision of Olivier Cattaneo (Head of Unit, Policy analysis and strategy) and Haje Schütte (Head of Division, Financing for sustainable development).
This report has benefitted from the contributions of many colleagues and the authors would like to particularly thank the following DCD colleagues: Valentina Orrù (Global Partnerships and Policies division), who provided the results of the 2018 Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) monitoring round; Emily Bosch (Reviews, Results, Evaluations and Development Innovation Division), who co-authored the accompanying policy brief on DAC members’ earmarked funding; and Aimée Nichols, Alice Golenko and Marisa Berbegal (Financing for Sustainable Development division), who provided statistical advice on the OECD Creditor Reporting System.
Emily Bosch, John Egan, Anita King, Claudio Cerabino, Mags Gaynor, Ashley Palmer, Valentina Orrù, Mitch Levine, Suzanne Steensen, Jolanda Profos, Aimée Nichols, Marisa Berbegal, Cécile Sangaré and Matthew Bowie helped significantly to improve the paper and the authors are grateful for their peer review and substantive comments.
Akihiko Nishio (World Bank Group), Henriette Keijzers (United Nations Development Programme), Silke Weinlich (German Development Institute), Scott Morris (Center for Global Development), Miriam Philippe (BMZ), Monika Vadeboncoeur (Permanent Delegation of Canada to the OECD), Thomas Piesch (Permanent Delegation of Germany to the OECD), and Christoph Graf (Permanent Delegation of Switzerland to the OECD) are kindly acknowledged for their useful feedback. The authors would also like to thank Bernhard Reinsberg, from the University of Glasgow, and Vera Eichenauer, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), for sharing their multi-bi dataset.
Stacey Bradbury and Sara Casadevall Belles facilitated the editing and publication of this paper, and Henri‑Bernard Solignac-Lecomte provided strategic communication advice.
The authors are grateful for the graphic support and advice received from Stephanie Coic and Cameron Bartlett on the visuals, as well as for the editorial support received from Fiona Hinchcliffe.