News stories by Brian Atwood

Our joint appeal for more sanity in global development co-operation is a reflection of our shared fear that the world will miss an important opportunity to fix what is wrong. We are looking both to the G-20 Summit in Cannes from November 3-4 and a few weeks later the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan to ensure that this doesn't happen, write Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee and Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International.

Oxfam and major aid donors of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (the DAC) are often on opposite sides of the fence. Today though, we are on the same side —making sure that effective aid lifts people out of poverty.