Innovation for Development Impact

Innovation for Development Impact
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Development Assistance Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9789264849457

The development co-operation community needs to innovate to meet the global challenges ahead. Although it has an established track record for innovating partnerships, funding instruments and technologies, they are not enough to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. This report synthesises the lessons emerging from an OECD Development Assistance Committee peer learning exercise on how innovation efforts can be strengthened, individually and collectively, to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The report is organised around three blocks - strategy, management and culture; organisation and collaboration; and, the innovation process - and provides recommendations on how innovation can best benefit poor and vulnerable people around the world.

Pathways Towards Effective Locally Led Development Co-operation Learning by Example

Pathways Towards Effective Locally Led Development Co-operation Learning by Example
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2024-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264317597

As more providers commit to support locally led development – whereby local actors have agency in framing, design, delivery, learning and accountability – this peer learning synthesis report provides a comprehensive overview of their efforts and strives to develop a common understanding and definition of locally led development co-operation. Building on existing practices, the report analyses to what extent providers’ systems can enhance or hinder the agency of local actors, looking in particular at policies, financing mechanisms, partnerships, and management processes. Rather than prescribing a singular pathway, it emphasises the importance of context-specific, sequenced, and locally defined approaches. Pathways Towards Effective Locally Led Development Co-operation: Learning by Example is a useful read for policymakers, practitioners and anyone committed to more equitable and effective development co-operation.

Innovation and Data Use in Cities A Road to Increased Well-being

Innovation and Data Use in Cities A Road to Increased Well-being
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264530495

This report is a first-of-its-kind work to provide evidence on how cities’ investments in innovation and data use can pay off in powerful ways for residents. It offers analysis on the different ways local governments build capacity at the strategic and technical level, from organisational structure and strategy, to resource allocation and outcome evaluation.

Development Co-operation Report 2021 Shaping a Just Digital Transformation

Development Co-operation Report 2021 Shaping a Just Digital Transformation
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264856862

Digital transformation is revolutionising economies and societies with rapid technological advances in AI, robotics and the Internet of Things. Low and middle-income countries are struggling to gain a foothold in the global digital economy in the face of limited digital capacity, skills, and fragmented global and regional rules.

The Development Dimension Greening Development Co-operation Lessons from the OECD Development Assistance Committee

The Development Dimension Greening Development Co-operation Lessons from the OECD Development Assistance Committee
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264526587

How can members of the DAC effectively tackle critical environmental challenges and threats – such as climate change, pollution, and loss of soil fertility and biodiversity – in activities supporting the 2030 Agenda in developing countries? Most already have environmental safeguards in place to screen out negative environmental practice, but they need far more robust policies, capacities and approaches for mainstreaming environment across all their development co-operation activities. This report examines five critical areas for mainstreaming: strong policy commitment and leadership; robust systems, processes and tools; capacity and continuous skill development; shared knowledge, learning and engagement; well-supported country systems.

The Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Activities Oslo Manual 2018 Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation, 4th Edition

The Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Activities Oslo Manual 2018 Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation, 4th Edition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9264304606

What is innovation and how should it be measured? Understanding the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovative firms and the internal and systemic factors that can influence innovation is a prerequisite for the pursuit and analysis of policies aimed at fostering innovation.

Innovation and the Development Agenda

Innovation and the Development Agenda
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 926408892X

Innovation drives long-term economic growth. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.

Applying Evaluation Criteria Thoughtfully

Applying Evaluation Criteria Thoughtfully
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 926498402X

Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria, particularly in international development co-operation. They help to determine the merit or worth of various interventions, such as strategies, policies, programmes or projects. This guidance aims to help evaluators and others to better understand those criteria, and improve their use.

Private Philanthropy for Development

Private Philanthropy for Development
Author: Collectif
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9264300155

Philanthropy’s role in advancing sustainable development attracts a lot of attention. This report calls into question long-held assumptions about the volume, nature and potential of foundations’ engagement in developing countries, and the role they can play to support the SDGs. It presents ground-breaking data and analysis that capture previously non-existent global and comparable quantitative and qualitative data on how foundations support development. The report examines philanthropic resource flows for development purposes, as well as foundations’ priorities, practices and partnering behaviours. It presents fresh perspectives and action-oriented recommendations to optimise philanthropy’s role in support of sustainable development. This report offers practical insights for government policy makers and decision makers in civil society organisations, social enterprises and foundations. It results from close co-operation between the OECD Development Centre’s Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD) and the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate.