The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is the primary forum where bilateral donors meet to review together both the amount and nature of their contributions to aid programmes (bilateral and multilateral) and to consult with each other on all relevant aspects of their development assistance policies. With the secretariat support of the Development Cooperation Directorate, DAC encourages and harmonises OECD aid to developing countries and other aid recipients.
Publishes: (a) annual report of the Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee (commonly known as the DAC Report); (b) Geographical distribution of financial flows to aid recipients (annual); (c) Development cooperation review series: reviews the policies and programmes of an individual donor country (c.7 per year, covers all countries within a three year cycle); (d) Gazette: Quarterly Report on Individual Aid Commitments (e) external debt statistics (annual).
Databases include:
- creditor Reporting System (CRS):information system comprising data on Official Development Assistance (ODA), other lending by the official sector and data on officially supported export credits. See separate entry for details
- public Data Base: contains data directly compiled from the DAC/OECD database, including: historical series of financial flows to each recipient country from 1969 to date; financial flows by type; flows by donor. Available for purchase on magnetic tape
- DAC Aid Performance / Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients / Official Development Assistance by Sectors / Food Aid / Aid and other resource flows to the CEECs-NIS / DAC report statistical annex. All available on PC disks: see separate entries for details
WWW site includes information on DAC, a publications list, glossary of terms used in aid, a sample of available data, pre-formatted to cover some of the more commonly requested tables (presented both as tables and in Excel 4 formats)