
Development Assistance Measures
Support measures in the area of official development assistance involve voluntary bilateral commitments made by donor countries, higher levels of grant aid and reduced levels of tied aid. At the multilateral level, several organizations of the UN system earmark a proportion of their budgets for LDCsLeast Developed Countries. Some bilateral and multilateral donors have also established LDC specific funds.
Development ISMs
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP gives particular attention to the development challenges of LDCs through earmarking a...
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
In 2007, the Executive Board of the UNDP and UNFPA adopted the so-called Resource Allocation...
Stories
ODA flows to LDCs in 2012: bilateral ODA declined significantly but how about multilateral development aid?
by Hiroshi Kawamura (*) Many in the donor community have expressed concern over the news from...
Untying aid for LDCs: Trends and implication
Between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of untied OECD DAC bilateral aid to LDCs has increased from...
Latest news
ODA to LDCs drops 12.8%
Development aid to poor countries slipped amidst tightening government budgets. Data...
Some donor countries' ODA falls below LDC targets
Latest OECD statistics on 2011 resource flows to developing countries show that, in 2011,...
ISM in the spotlight
SPOTLIGHT: Recent trends in ODA to LDCs
The early release of 2011 ODA data indicates that some donors are dropping below the 0.20 GNI/capita target in 2011. Fiscal austerity in many of the donor countries is bound to further reduce ODA, also to LDCs. However, several donor countries increased aid. What can be done to achieve the ODA...
Facts & Figures
What are ODA related support measures?
ODA are resource flows to developing countries which are: (a) provided by official agencies; (b)...
New Survey Results
Surveys on ODA-related support measures were addressed to bilateral and multilateral...
Latest discussions
SPOTLIGHT: Do donors really give increasing priority to LDCs?
In the last decade, it appears that donors have given increasing priority to LDCs. The share of ODA provided to LDCs increased from 26 per cent in 2000 to 34.4 per cent in 2010 (MDG GAP Task Force...
Bilateral ODA
Monitoring ODA Targets
Is any organization monitoring the bilateral ODA targets set in the Istanbul Programme of Action? For instance, from what I understand, the Netherlands reached the 0.20 target but is now below that....
Bilateral ODA