The 60th edition of the Development Co-operation Report 2023: Debating the Aid System does just that. Using a political economy lens, it crystalizes the debates around the international development system and official

Using a political economy lens, it crystalizes the debates around the international development system and official development assistance (ODA), unpacking the problem, policies, and politics, and proposing ways to move forward. [...] Today’s global majority in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific calls to upend colonial legacies, strives to devise and implement home-grown solutions to local needs, and challenges the structures that perpetuate inequalities, including the international financial architecture. [...] C O O P E R A T I O N C A N A D A | D E V E L O P M E N T C O - O P E R A T I O N R E P O R T 2 0 2 3 0 1 The Policies Denying local communities a voice in decisions that affect them leads to In terms of both quantity and quality, the inappropriate fundingdecisions and forced international cooperation architecture is dependency rather than sustainable inadequate to cover the economic and empowerme. [...] In the same period, the share of ODA providers to criticism, undermining trust, disbursed to and through multilateral leaving countries to build new system went from 38 to 43.4% while the relationships that meet their pressing share going to and through developing needs. [...] Reshaping the international cooperation system is critical to contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and to a future in which no country will depend on aid.