Official development assistance

Assure human rights and security within the framework of the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Population assistance as a proportion of official development assistance

Increasing the amount and impact of official development assistance

Innovative funding sources were a complement to ODA.

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

First, official development assistance (ODA) should be greatly increased.

We welcome the recent upward trend in disbursing official development assistance (ODA).

Official development assistance (ODA) was seen as an essential mechanism for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and longer term development goals.

Stressing the importance of reversing the continuing decline of official development assistance devoted to agriculture and rural development, both in real terms and as a share of total official development assistance,

Deeply concerned by the low levels of official development assistance,

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

The round table addressed the theme of ODA, innovative sources of financing and debt .

As an emerging donor, the Republic of Korea has intensified its efforts both to increase its volume of official development assistance and to improve its policies and procedures on ODA implementation.

Sub theme 3 Official development assistance, innovative sources of finance and debt

We know that the value of such remittances surpasses that of official development assistance.

A substantial increase in official development assistance to developing countries has not been achieved.

Here also, a great deal of analytical rigour is needed to mobilize ODA within the context of the Millennium Development Goals.

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

Urgent steps are needed to increase the quality, transparency and accountability of ODA.

By 2015, it will reach 0.7 per cent.

Innovative forms of financing are being developed to complement ODA increases.

They have to accelerate and increase the flows of ODA and foreign direct investment.

Furthermore, remittance levels are double those of official development assistance (ODA).

Official development assistance (ODA) is a term coined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD) to measure aid.

Complementing the institutions and processes is the issue of resource mobilization and development assistance management including utilization, especially of ODA.

We also believe that official development assistance should be combined with debt relief.

Official development assistance (ODA) is the most important source of financing for the poorest countries.

Japan was working on mainstreaming gender considerations into its official development assistance.

Financial incentives and higher shares of official development assistance as catalytic funding should also be considered.

For developing countries, official development assistance (ODA) remains an important source of income.

We will strive to increase the level of ODA for the purpose of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, taking proposals by the Secretary General seriously into consideration.

We call on the implementation on the provision of ODA that take into account the national development priorities of developing countries and meet ODA commitments in support of pro poor and poverty reduction policies.

The recent commitments on official development assistance (ODA) were widely welcomed, including the commitment to double ODA to Africa and the commitments by many donors to reach the target of 0.7 per cent in ODA.

Simultaneous efforts in many fields include resource mobilization and increased official development assistance.

They promised to increase official development assistance to 0.7 per cent of their GDP by 2015.

However, it should be pointed out that only a handful of countries contribute the suggested 4 per cent or more of their total ODA for population assistance in 2003, only five countries did so, compared with eight countries in 2002.

Figure 2 Official development assistance and debt relief provided to sub Saharan Africa, 2000 2003

Donors must also increase official development assistance (ODA) and provide Africa with greater debt relief.

Regarding official development assistance, the Republic of Korea agrees that it plays a critical role in supporting and supplementing domestic resources.