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

Official development assistance

Population assistance as a proportion of official development assistance

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Management of development assistance

Increasing the amount and impact of official development assistance

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

Innovative funding sources were a complement to ODA.

(b) Matching needs and offers of 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,

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

The Rome Declaration does not explicitly request that countries harmonize their development assistance with reference to the Millennium 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,

Ensure that development assistance harmonization efforts are adapted to the country context and that donor assistance is aligned with the development priorities of the recipient

Deeply concerned by the low levels of official development assistance,

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

With external financial assistance, our development efforts could be accelerated.

Thirdly, it is important to address the impediments to the effectiveness of development assistance.

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

(b) double development assistance to Africa and improve its quality, inter alia, by channeling such increase through multilateral development institutions and by augmenting the budgetary support component of it

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.

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.

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

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

We urge development partners to increase flows of development assistance to the developing world.

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.

Nonetheless, an overarching need for more development assistance remains.

Source Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Assistance Committee, International Development Statistics, online.

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

DAR approaches are currently being applied in Zambia and Uganda.

The Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is a forum to discuss issues surrounding aid, development and poverty reduction in developing countries.

The Rome Declaration of 2003 and other initiatives of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provide a means to improve ODA effectiveness and are a reflection of a better understanding among development partners.