Glossary and Reports: Development Cooperation of Local Governments

Official Development Assistance

Official Development Assistance is defined as resource flows to countries and territories on the DAC2 list of ODA recipients and to multilateral development institutions..

CRS sector classification

The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) establishes, together with the reporting guidelines through the **Creditor Reporting System** (CRS), the classification and definition of the DAC sectors to which official development assistance is directed

Tied, partially tied and untied aid

Tied aid measures the extent to which aid procurement is restricted, in particular to suppliers in the donor country.

DAC Instruments

The instruments identify the modality used in the provision of aid. It allows classifying flows from the donor to the first recipient of funds (e.g. the recipient country, a multilateral organisation or a basket fund), which is not necessarily the final beneficiary.

Type of aid

Depending on the nature of the contribution, various types of aid can be distinguished – Technical Cooperation, Programmatic Aid, and Investment Projects