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Help and guidance

The Global Partnership Data Portal brings together the results of the 2023–2026 monitoring round: how partner countries and development partners are working together, measured against the four effectiveness principles.

These pages explain what you are looking at, how to read a score, and where each number comes from.

What is in the portal

The round covers 44 partner countries and 93 development partners. Between them they report on around 60 indicators, grouped into four dimensions:

Dimension What it looks at
Whole-of-society engagement Whether governments and partners bring parliament, civil society, trade unions and the private sector into decisions
Country systems Whether development co-operation uses national plans, budgets and financial systems
Transparency Whether information about development co-operation is published, timely and usable
Leaving no one behind Whether the people most at risk of being left behind are consulted, targeted and counted

Earlier rounds are included where the measures are comparable, going back to 2014, and to the 2005–2010 Paris Declaration surveys for a few long-running measures.

Where to start

Open the portal and you land on the map, showing every country that has taken part in a monitoring round. Hover any country for its scores by round. To look at one measure, pick an indicator from the dropdown and the map colours itself by that indicator.

From there:

Common questions

What does a score mean? Most indicators are scored from 0 to 1 and shown as a percentage. Higher is better in every case — no indicator is reversed. The colour bands are: very low (under 10%), low (10–50%), medium (50–70%), high (70–90%), very high (90% and above). See How scores work.

Why is a country or partner compared against that particular group? Partner countries are compared against others in the same World Bank income group, and development partners against their comparison group — DAC members, multilateral partners, or United Nations entities. Comparing a low-income country against a global average, or a small agency against the whole partnership, tells you more about the group than about the country or partner.

Why do some scores show a dash? A dash means nothing was reported for that measure — not a score of zero. Some indicators only apply to certain reporters: untied aid, for example, is published for DAC members only, and the Kampala Principles module is optional.

Why does a figure here differ from one I have seen elsewhere? Group averages come from the Secretariat's published aggregates, which weight some indicators by financial volume rather than treating every country equally. Where the portal calculates something itself — dimension averages, for instance — it says so.

Can I see the underlying data? Each country's full results are published on effectivecooperation.org; the Partner Country Profile links straight to them. Development partner profiles can be downloaded as a PDF.

How current is this? The portal shows the 2023–2026 round, the fourth. Where a previous-round figure exists, it is shown alongside so you can see the direction of travel.

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Using the portal

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