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Welcome to the new ODAReform.org website. Please do take some time to look around the different sections, including a recounting of the...
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May 5, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: 1st Letter to DAC Chair, February 2022
This was the first letter I sent to the DAC Chair drawing on the findings of the paper I attached, "Credit Where Credit's Due", setting...
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stevecutts
May 4, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: Credit Where Credit's Due, February 2022
This was the first paper I sent to the DAC Chair in February 2022
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stevecutts
May 4, 20231 min read
Simon Scott: Statistical No-Nos, May 2023
The DAC’s ODA rules are now logically and ethically invalid – here’s why
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stevecutts
May 2, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: 2nd Letter to DAC Chair, March 2022
This was the 2nd Letter I sent to the DAC Chair, reiterating the calls for ODA Reform and showing the magnitude of over-counting of aid...
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stevecutts
May 1, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: My Meeting with WP Stat and OECD Officials, May 2022
This is my personal record of the discussions before and at the meeting in May 2022, at which we discuss the overcounting of aid in ODA...
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stevecutts
May 1, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: ODA and the Donation of Surplus COVID Vaccines, March 2023
Numerous allegations have been made that the DAC’s guidance for claiming ODA for the donation of surplus COVID-19 vaccines originally...
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stevecutts
May 1, 20231 min read
John Speedy: A Modest Proposal for UK's ODA, March 2023
John Speedy (who tells us he is Regius Chair of Developmental Mathematics and from Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, kindly gave us...
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stevecutts
May 1, 20231 min read
Hedwig Riegler: Governance of ODA accounting – no substantial ODA reform without governance reform
This guest piece, by Hedwig Riegler, former Chair of the OECD/DAC's Working Party on Development Finance Statistics calls for a fresh...
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stevecutts
May 1, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: 3rd Letter to DAC Chair, July 2022
Having still received no substantive response (although she did have time to respond to my FT article!) I wrote a 3rd time, drawing...
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stevecutts
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: Letter to OECD Deputy Secretary-General, October 2022
After being told that the OECD's FAQ published in October 2022 purported to comprise their response to the issues I had raised, I wrote a...
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stevecutts
Apr 29, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: Point-by-point response to the OECD FAQ defending ODA accounting, October 2022
This is the annex that I attached to my letter to the OECD DSG
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stevecutts
Apr 26, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: The Campaign Beyond the DAC/OECD, May 2023
Here are some of the articles and work to promote the campaign beyond the OECD
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