This report provides an overview of developments, challenges and opportunities in the new sustainability linked bond market, with a spotlight on public sector issuances in the wake of the first two sovereigns entering this space in 2022. Building on insights from extensive consultations with...

The report analyses the extent and quality of official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows (OOF) for refugee situations in low- and middle-income countries in 2020-2021, towards the burden- and responsibility-sharing rationale of the Global Compact on Refugees.

This paper starts from the recognition that despite the importance of the commodity trading sector for domestic resource mobilisation in many developing countries, engagement by OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members with the commodity trading industry has been limited. The paper...

The scale of illicit financial flows (IFFs) originating from extractive economies across the Global South has grown dramatically over the last four decades. Focusing on the oil sector, and the unique challenges of addressing and regulating the oil commodity-trading sector, this paper examines...

Climate-related development finance to fragile contexts has increased from both members of the Development Assistance Committee and multilateral providers. However, fragile contexts – and extremely fragile contexts in particular – remain under-served by climate-related development finance...

This report provides an overview of the main trends of annual development finance with biodiversity-related objectives for the period 2015 to 2021, from a range of sources: bilateral Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members and non-DAC members, South-South and triangular co-operation...

Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are critical in supporting sustainable development. To date, there has been a limited level of analysis focused on their funding models. Key messages from this paper: 1) DFI funding models have material implications, whether they be linked to the...

This paper presents a preliminary overview of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ policy frameworks and financing efforts to address the challenges at the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and gender inequality. It reviews existing...

A rapidly changing world requires development co-operation providers to continuously adjust their institutional arrangements, policies, systems and processes. Yet, until today, existing tools for public policy reform had not been adapted for the sector. To fulfil this ambition, this paper draws...

This paper examines how the loss of biodiversity – and of the ecosystem services it provides – affects the various dimensions of fragility, amplifying existing risks and diminishing coping capacity in fragile contexts. It calls on all stakeholders in development co-operation to align (i)...