The Multilateral Development Finance 2024 report was prepared by a team in the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate comprised of Abdoulaye Fabregas, Jieun Kim, Clémence Decisy, Christal Kihm and Gabriele Cristofaro under the overall supervision of Olivier Cattaneo (Head of Unit, Architecture and Analysis). It is part of the directorate’s work on multilateral development co-operation.
The report has benefitted from the contributions of many colleagues. The authors would like to particularly thank the following: Erika MacLaughlin and Edward Hainsworth for inputs on multilateral funding structures, collaboration between multilateral organisations, and multilateral development banks’ climate action; Ashley Palmer and Valentina Orru, for their contribution on the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation monitoring exercise; Emily Bosch for her contributions on multilateral organisations’ pivot to locally-led development; Cushla Thompson, Gregory De Paepe and Cyprien Fabre for their inputs on crisis, conflicts and fragility; Hector Moreno, Giorgio Gualberti, Cécile Sangaré, Aussama Bejraoui, Harsh Desai, Lou Turroques, Sandie Xu and Olivier Bouret for their statistical advice and inputs.
Emily Bosch, Rahul Malhotra, Valentina Orru, Edward Hainsworth, Erika MacLaughlin, Harsh Desai, Cushla Thompson, Gregory De Paepe, Cyprien Fabre, Hector Moreno, Giorgio Gualberti, Cécile Sangaré and Carlotta Schilling have all significantly helped improve the report and the authors are grateful for their review and substantive comments.
The report benefitted from consultations with external partners from research institutes, academia and multilateral organisations, including: the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, University of Glasgow, Center for Global Development, Center for Policy Dialogue, United Nations Development Coordination Office and United Nations Joint Inspection Unit. Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided overall strategic guidance.
The authors are grateful for the support received from Stephanie Coic on graphic design, as well as for the editorial support provided by Fiona Hinchcliffe. Joelle Bassoul, Ola Kasneci, Karena Garnier, Meria Greco and Jessica Voorhees facilitated the publication and communications process, and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte provided strategic communications advice.