Guest Blog bySarah Dalrymple: New aid rules allow for the inclusion of a wider set of peace and security activities
Sarah Dalrymple is a Senior Engagement Advisor at Development Initiatives specialising in humanitarian and development finance. She has worked at Saferworld advising on security, justice, conflict prevention policy and advocacy and at International Alert as a Programme Design Officer on peacebuilding issues in Asia and Eurasia. This blog was originally posted here . Ensuring transparency and illustrating the development impact of funding decisions will be critical to ensuring that the needs of vulnerable people are met Last week, at the High-Level Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), governments agreed to new rules that allow for a wider set of peace and security activities to be counted as official development assistance (ODA). The communiquรฉ from the meeting maintains that all ODA must continue to have a development purpose. As such, the extension largely applies to a set of new non-coerci...