This report was prepared by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), under the overall guidance of Director Jorge Moreira da Silva and the supervision of Haje Schütte, Head of the Financing for Sustainable Development Division, with Olivier Cattaneo, Head of the Policy Analysis and Strategy Unit.
Piera Tortora conceptualised and co-ordinated the report and was the author of Chapter 1 (with inputs from Emilio Chiofalo), Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, and co-authored Annex 6.A (with Emilio Chiofalo). Emilio Chiofalo authored Chapter 3 (with inputs and guidance from Piera Tortora), Annex 6.B and the Country Fact Sheets; and provided the computations and initial analysis for the metrics on good multilateral funding used as a basis for Chapter 6 and Annex 6.A. Valentina Bellesi provided excellent research assistance for the report, analytical inputs and support to production.
Statistical quality assurance and support were provided by Pierre Blanchard, who developed the dataset for Chapter 3 and provided statistical quality assurance for the data analysis in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Fredrik Ericsson contributed to the dataset for Chapter 2 and for the Country Fact Sheets. Yangtao Huang provided statistical assistance for the computations of the OECD metrics on good multilateral funding presented in Chapter 6 and co-authored Annex 6.B. Giorgio Gualberti helped prepare the dataset on climate finance used in Chapter 3. Statistical data checking on the Country Fact Sheets was provided by Olivier Bouret and Andrzej Suchodolski. Raffaele Della Croce authored Box 3.4 and Naeeda Crishna Morgado and Özlem Taskin co-authored Box 5.3. The authors would like to thank Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte and Stacey Bradbury for helping to prepare the report for publication, together with Scriptoria for editorial support. Corinne Hayworth and Stephanie Coic are kindly acknowledged for graphic support.
Distinguished experts and external colleagues provided comments to earlier versions of the report: Homi Kharas (Brookings Institution), Richard Manning, Annalisa Prizzon (Overseas Development Institute), Silke Weinlich (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik), Amine Kèbè (WHO), Andrew MacPherson (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), Christopher Garroway de Coninck (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and Tsegaye Lemma (United Nations Development Programme). The authors also wish to thank Rafael Rovaletti and Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti (WHO) for providing the dataset and for helpful discussions the development of the metrics on good multilateral funding applied to the World Health Organization.
The report features short think pieces (in the “in my view” boxes) by the following authors: Nancy Lee (Center for Global Development), Annalisa Prizzon (Overseas Development Institute) and Silke Weinlich (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).
Earlier versions of the report benefitted from comments from the following OECD colleagues: Sara Batmanglich, Julia Benn, Marisa Berbegal Ibanez, Juan Casado, Guillaume Cohen, John Egan, Kerri Elgar, Cyprian Fabre, Samer Hackem, Tomáš Hos, Mitch Levine, Rahul Malhotra, Naeeda Crishna Morgado, Kaori Miyamoto, Erin Renner Cordell, Cécile Sangaré, Rachel Scott, Suzanne Steensen, and Ann Zimmerman.
Members of the Development Assistance Committee are acknowledged for their useful feedback. Funding support from Germany, Switzerland and Canada is kindly acknowledged.