TRACKING FINANCING FOR

DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DAC

STATISTICS

Yasmin AHMAD, Manager, Data collections unit, DAC, OECD

Paris, 18 September 2014

• Measure resource flows for development purposes (not only aid) from:

- DAC members

- Multilateral agencies

- Non-DAC providers

• An institutionalized structure (DAC Working Party on Development Finance Statistics) continuously works at maintaining and developing the underlying standards and create a common understanding of their application. Thus, it enables data consistency and international comparability.

• DAC statistics are the only source of reliable, complete and comparable aid data.

DAC statistics

Who provides the data

• 29 DAC members (28 DAC donors and EU Institutions)

• 18 non-DAC donors

• 30 international organisations

• 1 foundation (BMGF)

– A network of statistical reporters in each country that collects data

from the main aid agency as well as other government departments

providing aid on a continuous basis

– The DAC Secretariat is responsible for processing the data,

verifying it for coherence and quality and disseminating the data

• Commitment: a written obligation to provide resources under specified conditions and terms reported in the year when the agreement is signed

• Disbursement: the placement of resources at the disposal of the recipient country or agency

• On a calendar year basis

Aid flows: Definitions

Resource flows covered: bilateral aid

Concessional Non-concessional

Official Official development assistance (ODA)--grants--concessional loans--technical assistance

Other official flows (OOF)--non-concessional loans (e.g. by DFIs)--investment-related transactions--export-related transactions

Private NGO, foundation and other charitable flows

Private flows at market terms--FDI and portfolio investment--export credits--bonds

Resource flows covered: multilateral

Multilateral agencies active in development

Concessional Non-concessional

• MDBs World Bank Group

Regional Dev. Banks etc.

IDA grants and loans

AfDF/ grants & loans etc.

IBRD loans, IFC loans and investments

AfDB loans etc.

• Activity Identification information: year, donor, agency, CRS ID, donor’s project number

• Basic data: recipient, category, type of finance, descriptions, sector, channel of delivery

• Supplementary data: geography, policy markers, type of aid markers, RIO markers including climate adaptation and mitigation markers

• Volume data: currency, commitment, disbursement amounts, tying amounts, IRTC, export credit amounts

• Terms of loans data: repayments (principal and interest), interest rate, repayment dates

Wealth of information in the CRS