Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Pest and Pesticide Management

Over the last decades, the use of pesticides in developing countries has rapidly increased, while the development and introduction of instruments to control their use and distribution has lagged behind. In many countries this has led to wide-spread occurrence of undesirable practices affecting public health and the environment. National and international concern about this situation, the broad involvement of aid agencies in pest control programmes, and the new perspectives on pest control provided by growing experience with and recent successes of the concept of integrated pest management (IPM), formed the reason for the OECD/ DAC to prepare these guidelines.The guidelines aim to provide a common frame of reference to OECD aid agencies for the formulation of their aid policies on pest and pesticide management, and for the assessment and evaluation of their current activities in this field. They are primarily intended for use by policy-makers, managers and operational and project staff in aid agencies, although much of the information may also be of interest to others, including international organisations, recipient governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).