Source: European Parliament
The Committee will have an Exchange of Views with the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since March 2023, Mr. Carsten Staur. Before being elected OECD DAC Chair, Mr. Staur served as a prominent Danish diplomat, holding positions among others as Director and Under Secretary in the field of development cooperation, and as Danish ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO from 2018-2023.
ODA saw a decrease in 2024 after five years of continuous growth. The Exchange of Views will be an opportunity to discuss how to maintain a strong focus on poverty eradication and on the most vulnerable countries and population groups, in light of declining ODA.
The increasing pressures on development finance are of concern to Committee MEPs and underline the need to strengthen aid effectiveness and advancing policy coherence for development, as well as mobilising additional funding. The EU institutions play a key role in this respect, also considering the current process of revising EUs financial framework for development cooperation.