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Glossary

Terms and abbreviations used across the portal.

The partnership

Term What it means
Global Partnership (GPEDC) The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, which brings governments, providers, civil society, the private sector and others together around how development co-operation should work
Joint Support Team (JST) The team supporting the Global Partnership, jointly run by UNDP and the OECD. It maintains the Global Database behind this portal
Monitoring round A cycle in which countries and partners report on their commitments. The current round covers 2023–26 and is the fourth
Partner country A country that takes part in monitoring by reporting on how development co-operation works within its borders
Development partner An organisation providing development co-operation — a government, a multilateral body, a development bank or a UN entity — reporting on its own practice

Reading the results

Term What it means
Indicator A single measure, such as whether development co-operation is recorded on the national budget. Most are scored 0 to 1 and shown as a percentage
Composite An indicator that summarises two or more others by averaging them
Dimension One of the four themes the indicators are grouped under: whole-of-society engagement, country systems, transparency, and leaving no one behind
Comparison group The set a country or partner is measured against — a World Bank income group for countries, and DAC members, multilateral partners or United Nations entities for partners
Performance band One of the five ranges a score falls into: very low, low, medium, high, very high

Who reports, and about what

Term What it means
DAC The OECD's Development Assistance Committee. Its members report the untied aid figures used here
Multilateral partner An organisation owned by several governments, including the multilateral development banks
United Nations entity A UN fund, programme or specialised agency

Subjects the indicators cover

Term What it means
National development strategy A country's overarching medium- to long-term plan
Public financial management (PFM) How a government manages public money: budgeting, accounting, reporting and audit
PEFA Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability, an international assessment of the quality of a country's public financial management
On budget Development co-operation recorded in the national budget, which brings it within parliamentary oversight
Country systems A government's own budgeting, reporting, audit and procurement processes, as opposed to parallel arrangements set up by a provider
Predictability Whether funding arrives when it was promised, and whether partners share their spending plans for the years ahead
Untied aid Development assistance that is not conditional on buying goods or services from the providing country
Information management system A national database recording development co-operation flows
Country results framework The set of objectives and indicators a government uses to track its own plan. Partners are asked whether they draw on it rather than creating their own
Kampala Principles Five principles for effective private-sector engagement in development co-operation. Reporting against them is optional
Leaving no one behind The commitment that development progress should reach the most marginalised first
Civil society organisation (CSO) A non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation
Enabling environment The conditions — legal, regulatory and practical — that determine how freely civil society can operate

Publishing and transparency

Term What it means
IATI The International Aid Transparency Initiative, a standard for publishing open data on development and humanitarian spending
Creditor Reporting System (CRS) The OECD database recording development finance from DAC members
SDG One of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Three monitoring indicators also serve as official SDG indicators