We wish for a sweeping review of cooperation policies and of the distribution of official development assistance.

We already provide 55 per cent of all official development aid spent worldwide.

Donor countries vary greatly in terms of the proportion of ODA contributed to population assistance proportions have ranged from 0.04 to 11.45 per cent.

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.

Commitments to provide ODA and transfer technology should be honoured and priority should be given to building capacity in developing countries.

SADC welcomes the recent pledges of increased support by the international community, as well as the recent efforts to scale up official development assistance by realizing the 0.7 per cent target.

Working together, our countries identified a number of innovative mechanisms designed to generate assistance flows additional and complementary to official development assistance.

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

As to official development assistance, we welcome the decision taken by the European Union to increase its allotment to 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

Official development assistance

Spanish aid is increasing in quantity, but we also want to improve the quality of that official development assistance, with respect to both its content and its recipients, in order to make it more effective.

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

It is surely unacceptable for so many of the world's richest nations to make repeated pledges of increased official development assistance (ODA) and then break them routinely, with impunity.

We will also increase the current flow of ODA to Latin America and North Africa, with particular emphasis on middle lower income countries.

As reaffirmed at Monterrey, the specific allocation of 0.15 to 0.2 per cent of the GDP of developed countries must be earmarked for official development assistance to least developed countries.

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.

Population assistance as a proportion of official development assistance

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.

We underline the urgent need for increased investment now, and therefore for the immediate front loading of additional official development assistance commitments and, in that regard, welcome the decision to launch, in 2005, an international finance facility, on a voluntary basis, to support the immediate front loading of official development assistance commitments and encourage broad participation

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.

I, therefore, welcome our commitment to increase our 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,

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,

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.

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.

However, the Secretary General also highlighted the ever pressing challenges of inadequate official development assistance, the growing debt burden, the unfair and inequitable global trade regime, and very low foreign direct investment flows to Africa.

We hope that the financial commitments made by the donor countries will allow us to overcome this crisis, and that those commitments will not come at the expense of official development assistance.

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,

Closely related to ODA is the issue of external debt.

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

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

In some States, those remittances constitute 65 per cent of all development assistance.

In many countries they need access to development aid coordination mechanisms.

Debt sustainability for the poorest countries is best secured if financial resources come in the form of grants and if donors consequently agree to substantially increase grant based ODA.

The Millennium Development Goals will not be achievable simply through the internationally committed official development assistance percentage alone.

Such a review of remittances should look into restrictive practices that could be abolished, and ask whether official assistance should be adapted to the needs of this informal yet crucially important aid network.

As a beneficiary of this development assistance, Micronesia remains grateful for the support of our donor partners and the international donor community for the continued assistance extended to us.