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Development Cooperation Forum

International Development Cooperation

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The United Nations Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) was created by World Leaders in response to the deep changes in the development cooperation landscape and the growing number of development cooperation actors. It reviews trends in international development cooperation and spurs coherence among the various development actors. The DCF is a universal body. It is also a multistakeholder platform. It brings together decision makers from developing and developed countries, parliamentarians, civil society organizations, local governments and the private sector. The DCF sessions and events spur debate on national policies that have succeeded to advance development goals. They reflect on how development cooperation can best help. Good practice standards identified in the DCF are fed back into policy making at country level. This happens through south- south learning workshop. 

The 2012 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) will take place on Thursday, 5 July and Friday, 6 July 2012 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Preparations are ongoing. Read more.

Key trends addressed by the 2012 DCF

  • 1. Aid quantity, sources and allocation
  • 2. Mutual accountability and aid transparency
  • 3. Policy coherence
  • 4. Aid to mobilize other development finance
  • 5. Impact of the sustainable development concept on development cooperation
  • 6. South-South and triangular cooperation
  • 7. Decentralized cooperation
  • 8. Aid to promote gender equality
  • 9. Private philanthropic organizations in development cooperation
  • 10. The evolving development cooperation architecture

FROM GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION