With a target for Official Development Assistance (ODA) of 0.8% of Gross National Income (GNI), the Netherlands is among the most generous donors within the DAC.
Portuguese development co-operation has undergone several institutional and policy changes since the last Peer Review. However, Portugal faces significant implementation challenges to reorient its programme accordingly.
Since the 2001 DAC Peer Review, the process of change in Germany’s approach to development co-operation has gained momentum enabling it to adapt to the evolving international context regarding development ...
Since 2001 Belgium has introduced reforms and taken measures enabling it to adapt to the new international context regarding development co-operation. This dynamic for change has benefited from the Plan Copernic, introduced with the object of reforming Belgium’s federal public administration.
Switzerland considers the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Millennium Declaration as development policy milestones and has made poverty reduction a main objective of its foreign policy.
Sweden's new Policy for Global Development contains an innovative and ambitious agenda for action. Sweden is the first DAC donor to adopt and actively implement such a comprehensive development approach.
NZAID is committed to sharpening the focus of its assistance for better development results. This in practice involves “bigger, fewer, deeper and longer” engagements both with developing country partners and international agencies.
With an ODA/GNI ratio of 0.92% Norway ranked first among DAC members in 2003 and is approaching the 1% target set by the Norwegian government for 2005.
