Japan's Official Development Assistance White Paper 2008
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1. Trends in the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-DAC)
The recent agenda of the Development Assistance Committee under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-DAC) include issues associated with the enhancement of aid efficiency, and creation of cooperative relations with donors of non-DAC members. In April 2007, OECD-DAC held a high level meeting for cabinet member class officials. The meeting focused on state governance (vulnerability, and corruption prevention), enhancement of aid effects, and use of ODA funds for security, among other issues. A day before the high-level meeting, a global forum on development was held to discuss on increase of principal players associated with development and how to respond to resultant complications. This forum included a session of opinion exchanges, participated in by invitees from countries such as BRICS. The opinion exchanges provided a major road-map for the progress of development cooperation between traditional donors and these new economies.
In 2007, the OECD-DAC continued the preparations started in the previous year for a new round of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-3) (Accra High Level Forum). Japan stands the position that the forum should exploit the opinions and experiences of not only traditional donors and developing countries but newly industrialized countries, whose volumes of aid have been increasing in recent years. Based on the above idea, Japan, together with Russia, a non-DAC member, served the cochair of a private working group for dialogue with emerging economies during the preparations for the forum. Moreover, international joint surveys had been conducted on technical cooperation effective for aid effects in infrastructure fields, which Japan has traditionally emphasized, as well as capacity building of developing countries. The results of these surveys were introduced at the Accra High Level Forum.