The Development Co-operation Report is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid. This year, the Development Co-operation Report 2012 seeks to provide insights into how to address today’s sustainable development challenges, with a focus on inclusiveness and good governance to ensure that our finite resources are equitably distributed, now and in the future.

Sharing finite resources among a growing number people – and consumers – is a critical challenge. It is in this spirit that J. Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), invited several intellectual leaders on the challenges of inclusive, sustainable development to contribute to this year’s report.

Preface by Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, Chair of Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice
Executive summary
Editorial by J. Brian Atwood, Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
PART I. CHALLENGES AND PROGRESS SINCE THE RIO EARTH SUMMIT IN 1992
Chapter 1. Brazil’s journey from the Earth Summit to Rio+20 by Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment, Brazil
Chapter 2. The DAC’s work to integrate environment and development by OECD DCD Environment and Development team
Chapter 3. Trends in aid to environment, a component of sustainable development finance (1991-2011) by OECD DCD Statistics Division
PART II. HIGH STAKES FOR PEOPLE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 4. Factoring population dynamics into sustainable development by Michael Herrmann, Economics Advisor, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Chapter 5. Delivering sustainable energy for all by Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development
Chapter 6. Tackling air pollutants for long-lasting climate benefits by Lena Ek, Minister for the Environment, Sweden
Chapter 7. Building awareness of water’s vital role by Michel Camdessus, Member of the Africa Progress Panel and Member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation; Gérard Payen, Member of the Africa Progress Panel and Member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and President of Aquafed; Pierre-Frédéric Ténière-Buchot, Governor of the World Water Council (Marseilles) and Board Member and Treasurer of the French Water Academy
Chapter 8. Managing watersheds for resilient livelihoods in Ethiopia by Nick Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University College Cork, Ireland; Tassew Woldehanna, Associate Professor in Economics at Addis Ababa University and Senior Research Fellow at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Chapter 9. Breaking the mineral and fuel resource curse in Ghana by Heikki Holmås, Minister of International Development, Norway; Joe Oteng-Adjei, Minister for Energy, Ghana
PART III. GREEN GROWTH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 10. A green-growth business model by André Laperrière, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility
Chapter 11. Green growth as a national project in China, Kenya and Korea by Alice Akinyi Kaudia, Environment Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya; Chaofei Yang, Vice President, China Society of Environmental Sciences, China; Bok-Hwan Yu, Secretary-General, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Korea
Chapter 12. The private sector driving green growth by Jeff Seabright, Chief Environmental Officer at the Coca-Cola Company
PART IV. TOWARDS THE FUTURE WE WANT
Chapter 13. Right-sizing ODA and greening the global economy by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations
Chapter 14. Challenging development co-operation post-Rio+20 by OECD DAC Environment and Development Team
PART V. PROFILES AND POLICIES OF BILATERAL DONORS
-Development Assistance Committee member’s aid performance
--Australia (+ mid-term review)
--Austria
--Belgium
--Canada
--Denmark (+ OECD DAC peer review)
--European Union
--Finland
--France (+ mid-term review)
--Germany (+ OECD DAC peer review)
--Greece
--Ireland
--Italy
--Japan
--Korea
--Luxembourg (+ mid-term review)
--The Netherlands (+ OECD DAC peer review)
--New Zealand (+ OECD DAC peer review)
--Norway (+ mid-term review)
--Portugal (+ OECD DAC peer review)
--Spain
--Sweden (+ mid-term review)
--Switzerland
--United Kingdom
--United States (+ OECD DAC peer review)
-Notes on other OECD donors
-Notes on non-OECD providers of development co-operation
Annex A. Statistical annex
Glossary of development terms