Making Poverty Reduction Work: OECD'S Role in Development Partnership

This report highlights the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) contributions to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Contributing to global development is a key objective of the OECD, as an intergovernmental agency as well as through its collective membership. The OECD brings to the table:

• Full range of policy experience and its special brand of capacity building;
• Over 90 percent of the worlds official development assistance (ODA);
• 80 percent of the worlds foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, of which over a third goes to developing countries;
• Analysis and ways to join government policies to support development;
• Policy dialogue with partners in a non-negotiating context;
• Information to shape and monitor public opinion.

The report states that OECDs brand of development partnership, with its network of policy practitioners, non-negotiating discussion fora, practical tools and soft law instruments, can be effective in achieving the MDGs. The OECD contributes by:

• Ensuring fundamental conditions for economic growth;
• Improving policy implementation and policy synergies in member countries;
• Helping countries to mobilize resources to achieve the MDGs;
• Strengthening capacity in partner countries.