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Accessible
The information is publicly available and easily obtainable in machine-readable formats via a central location or registry. It is provided free of charge under an open licence.
AFD
French Agency for Development (Agence Francaise de Developpement)
AfDB
African Development Bank
AsDB
Asian Development Bank
Australia DFAT
Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Bilateral institution
Bilateral institutions, such as USAID, operate on a government to government basis to implement their aid programmes.
BMZ
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
(Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)
Common standard
The common standard sets out good practice in reporting and publishing aid information. It combines three complementary systems and processes: the OECD DAC’s Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Forward Spending Survey (FSS) and IATI.
Comparable
Information is disaggregated and detailed to allow different users to access, use and compare it with other international data sets in many ways. At present, the only standard that allows this for aid flows is IATI.
Comprehensive
Information is detailed and complete, both in terms of breadth (all the different types of foreign assistance
CRS
Creditor Reporting System (of the OECD DAC)
CSO
Civil society organisation
CSV
Comma separated values
Current
For the purposes of the 2016 Index, “current” is defined as published within the 12 months immediately prior to the data collection period (01 October 2014 –30 September 2015), so information published on 01 October 2014 or later and that relates to that date or later is accepted as current.
DAC
Development Assistance Committee (of the OECD)
Data quality
How useful the data is for different users. To be considered high quality, the data needs to be comprehensive, timely, accessible and comparable.
DFI
Development Finance Institution
DFID
Department for International Development (UK government)
DG DEVCO
Directorate General Development and Cooperation
DOD
Department of Defense (U.S. government)
EBRD
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EC
European Commission
ECHO
Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (European Commission)
EDRIS
European Disaster Response Information System
EIB
European Investment Bank
EU
European Union
FOI
Freedom of Information
FTS
Financial Tracking Service (of UN OCHA)
G7
Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and U.S.)
GAVI
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
GIZ
German Agency for International Cooperation (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
GPEDC
Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
IADB
Inter-American Development Bank
IATI
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) aims to make information about aid spending easier to find, use and compare. It is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid in order to increase its effectiveness in tackling poverty.
IATI Registry
The site on which raw IATI data in XML format can be found. The site provides links to publishers’ raw data files and includes a basic preview function.
IATI Standard
The IATI Standard is a technical publishing framework. It uses an XML format, a machine-readable “mark-up” language that allows programmes to extract data and present it in a comparable and accessible way.
IDA
International Development Association (World Bank)
IFC
International Finance Corporation (World Bank)
IFI
International Financial Institution
IMF
International Monetary Fund
Interoperability
Interoperability is the extent to which systems or standards can exchange data, and interpret and present that shared data to produce useful results, as defined by the end users of the different systems or standards. The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality and usability over the Internet.
JICA
Japan International Cooperation Agency
KOICA
Korea International Cooperation Agency
Machine-readable
Information that is presented in a structured way (not free text) that can be read automatically by a computer. Formats such as XML or spreadsheets (Excel, CSV) are machine-readable formats. Traditional word processed documents, HTML and PDF files are easily read by humans but are difficult for machines to interpret.
MAEDI
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et du Développement International – French government)
MCC
Millennium Challenge Corporation
MDGs
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. All 189 United Nations member states at the time and at least 23 international organizations committed to help achieve these goals.
MFA/MOFA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MINEFI
Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (le Ministère de l’
MOF
Ministry of Finance
MOFCOM
Ministry of Commerce (China government)
MoU
A Memorandum of Understanding is a document which details the agreement usually between the organisation and recipient government for the provision of aid in the country.
Multilateral institution
Multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank and UNICEF, pool aid from one or more sources for disbursal to different recipients.
NGO
Non-governmental organisation
OCHA
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations)
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) refers to flows to countries and to multilateral institutions which are provided by official agencies to promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective. They are concessional in character and convey a grant element of at least 25 per cent (see full definition on OECD DAC website).
Official Development Finance (ODF)
Official Development Finance (ODF) refers to flows to recipient countries, including bilateral ODA, grants, concessional and non-concessional loans by multilateral financial institutions, and Other Official Flows (OOF) for development purposes (see full definition on OECD DAC website).
OGP
Open Government Partnership
Open license
The legal licence under which information is made available is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute the information
Open source
Open source refers to a programme in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge.
Other Official Flows
Other Official Flows (OOF) are transactions by the official sector with countries which do not meet the conditions for eligibility as ODA, either because they are not primarily aimed at development, or because they have a grant element of less than 25 per cent (see full definition on OECD DAC website).
Portable Document Format
PEPFAR
President
Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Post-2015 Development Agenda refers to a process led by the United Nations (UN) that aims to help define the future global development framework that will succeed the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight global development targets which came to an end in 2015.
RTI
Right to Information
SDC
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
Sida
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Timely
Information is current and provided frequently (at least quarterly and preferably monthly), so it can be mapped by different actors against any budget cycle.
Traceability
Capturing the full
U.S.
United States of America
UK
United Kingdom
UN
United Nations
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme
UNICEF
United Nations Children
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
USAID
United States Agency for International Development
USD
United States Dollar
WHO
World Health Organization (United Nations)
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a computer language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is readable by both humans and machines.