How the DAC rules are changing and why you should care

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Eurodad and Development Initiatives (DI) are pleased to invite you to our webinar ‘How the DAC rules are changing and why you should care’ on 25 October, 2pm BST (3pm CET, 9am EDT).

The Development Assistance Committee is soon to change the way that private sector instruments (PSIs) are counted as official development assistance (ODA). These rule changes will bring welcome improvements in transparency, and ensure that countries provide clear arguments about why they consider PSIs are likely to have impact. However, the new rules are also likely to:

• Expand the definition of ODA to include more private-sector-oriented activities, and so increase headline ODA without necessarily any increase in donor effort;
• Worsen the inconsistencies between the two ways PSIs are measured; and
• Risk giving an incentive for donors to move further away from grant financing.

This event will help CSOs and other organisations by:

1. Providing an overview of the changes made in the ODA reporting of PSIs so that they can better understand the expected impact on the quantity and quality of ODA in the years to come and, thus, the importance of monitoring PSI ODA in the future.
2. Demonstrating analytically why the two measurement methods currently in use are likely to give different results in practice, and what this implies about comparing effort between donors.

The event will be moderated by Åsa Thomasson, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at CONCORD Sweden. There will then be remarks and discussions from the following panellists:

• Nerea Craviotto, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer – Aid Effectiveness, Eurodad
• Euan Ritchie, Senior Development Finance Policy Advisor, DI

Questions from the audience are encouraged and we are pleased to offer a longer Q&A session facilitated by the Zoom Q&A function to allow for more in-depth discussion.