As the global development community prepares its positions for the upcoming third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, one item high on the agenda is how official development assistance will fit into post-2015 development finance strategies.
ODA is not yet dead, but for many that is the ultimate goal, according to James Mackie, senior adviser on EU development policy with the European Center for Development Policy Management.
“I think what [the EU and other donors] will be seeking is to get people to shift away from a narrow focus on ODA,” he said during an interview with Devex on the sidelines of the launch of the European Report on Development 2015 in Brussels, Belgium — adding that redefining ODA to include concessional loans from the private sector can only be “a good thing.”
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