This report was prepared jointly by the OECD Development Centre (DEV) and the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) under Mario Pezzini, Director and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development, DEV and Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, DCD.
The report was written under the guidance of Bathylle Missika, Head of the Partnerships and Networks Unit and Senior Counsellor to the Director (a.i) and co‑ordinated by Ewelina Oblacewicz, Co-ordinator of netFWD, DEV, together with Tomáš Hos, Research Officer, Financing for Sustainable Development Division, DCD, with guidance from Lorenzo Pavone, Deputy Head, Partnerships and Networks Unit, Cécile Sangaré, Development Finance Analyst, Financing for Sustainable Development Division, DCD and Julia Benn, Head of Unit, Financing for Sustainable Development Division, DCD. It benefitted from strategic inputs from Haje Schütte, Head of the Financing for Sustainable Development Division, DCD.
The report was drafted by a core team: Chapter 1 (Ewelina Oblacewicz, DEV and Tomáš Hos, DCD), Chapter 2 (Cécile Sangaré, DCD and Tomáš Hos, DCD), Chapter 3 (Emilie Romon, DEV), Chapter 4 (Ewelina Oblacewicz, DEV and Sarah Sandford independent expert) and Chapter 5 (Ewelina Oblacewicz, DEV). Chapter 3 benefited from inputs by Karen Wilson and Irene Basile from DCD. Arturo Rocha and Martina Fattiboni Ferrara from DEV provided editorial and substantive support.
The case studies in Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 were received from Benjamin Bellegy (Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support), Ann Cleaveland (ClimateWorks Foundation), Naila Farouky (Arab Foundations Forum), Claudia Juech (Cloudera Foundation), Bent Lautrup-Nielsen (World Diabetes Foundation), Larry McGill (Foundation Center), Martina Mettgenberg-Lemière (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network), Antonella Noya and Stellina Galitopoulou (OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Local Development and Tourism) Lourdes Sanz Moguel and Romina Farías Pelayo (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía), Joachim Schmitt (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ), Geoffrey So (Novartis Foundation) and Max von Abendroth (Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe).
The outline and orientations of the report were discussed at an OECD Experts’ Meeting in October 2017. The report benefitted from in-depth independent expert reviews provided by Bronwen Magrath (International Education Funders Group), Paul Castle (Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture), Ann Cleaveland (ClimateWorks Foundation), Barry Hoolwerf (ERNOP), Douwe Jan Joustra (C&A Foundation), Valérie Meunier (Fondation CHANEL), Adam Pickering (DFID) and Katja Schiller Nwator (Motive Development Group).
The report was prepared for publication under the direction of Henri‑Bernard Solignac‑Lecomte and Stacey Bradbury (DCD). Anne Lise Prigent from the Public Affairs and Communications Directorate provided editorial and content oversight. Our appreciation also goes out to Mark Foss for editing assistance, to Stephanie Coic (DCD), Bochra Kriout, Irit Perry and Akolade Omishope (DEV) for producing the related communication materials and to Sonja Marki and Grace Dunphy (DEV) for providing administrative support.
We also wish to express our sincere thanks to Jamie Attard and Swandi Chan (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) for their comments on the survey template and Tracy Kang (China Charity Alliance) for facilitating the engagement with Chinese foundations. Finally, we wish to thank all foundations that took part in the survey for their co‑operation and invaluable assistance in obtaining the data that allowed us to develop this report.