Publications

Policy tools and approaches to tackle inequality

2016
Inequality has received wide attention as one of the most daunting challenges of our time. While income inequality has been in the spotlight amid staggering examples of economic imbalances,...

ODA allocation and other trends in development cooperation in LDCs and vulnerable contexts

2016
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing sustainable development, emphasises the use of resources beyond official development assistance (ODA...

New forms of cooperation and increased coherence to implement the SDGs

2016
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development challenges traditional international development cooperation thinking in two key ways. It strengthens the call to mobilise resources beyond official...

Making development cooperation on climate change sensitive to the needs of the most vulnerable countries

2016
Through the Paris Agreement, developed country Parties agreed to provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation, in continuation of...

Re-engineering development cooperation institutions to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

2016
The world has seen the fastest reduction of poverty for the past 15 years, along with reaching several other MDG targets. Despite these remarkable achievements, there remain a number of unfinished...

Concepts, Tools and Experiences in Policy Integration for Sustainable Development

2016
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasises the importance of recognizing sustainable development as multidimensional, requiring balanced policy action across economic, social and...

Citizen based monitoring of development cooperation for the 2030 Agenda

2015
Development cooperation in the era of Agenda 2030 for Sustain-able Development must be premised on a new partnership among development stakeholders globally.

Strengthening technology facilitation and capacity building in the SDG era

2015
Technology and innovation are seen as a key means of implementation, given the important role they have played historically in underpinning economic and social development and helping to manage the...

Improving ODA allocation for the SDG era

2015
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an unprecedented international agreement to pursue global progress on poverty eradication and social measures. The emerging post-2015 development agenda...

Monitoring and review of development cooperation for the 2030 Agenda – What will it look like?

2015
International development cooperation, for the purpose of this policy brief, is understood as "international action intended to support development in developing countries".

Monitoring and review of development cooperation at the national level

2015
A transformative post-2015 development agenda will require a multi-layered framework for monitoring and review of development cooperation.