Annex Three

Glossary of Term

Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Grants or Loans to countries and territories on Part I of the DAC List of Aid Recipients (developing countries). which are: (a) undertaken by the official sector; (b) with promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective; (c) at concessional financial terms [if a loan, having a Grant Element of at least 25 per cent]. In addition to financial flows, Technical Co-operation is included in aid. Grants, Loans and credits for military purposes are excluded.

Commitment
A firm written agreement by the donor to provide funds for a particular project or to a Trust Fund. The Commitment Date is the date of that written agreement. Commitments are usually multi-year – i.e., they are designed to fund expenditures for several years – but the total commitment is recorded in the year that the agreement is signed (even though disbursements may be projected to take place over a longer period).

Disbursement
The release of funds to, or the purchase of goods or services for, a recipient; by extension, the amount thus spent. Disbursements record the actual international transfer of financial resources, or of goods or services valued at the cost of the donor. The Disbursement Date is the date at which those funds were made available – usually this involves the transfer of funds into the implementer’s bank account or the draw down by the implementer of funds held in an account by the donor.

Project/program budget
The total resources required from all sources to implement the project/program.

Project/program start date
The actual start date of the implementation of the project/program. Often the same as the project signature/commitment date.

Project/program completion date
Actual, if already completed, or planned completion date of the project/program.

Project/Program Status

• On-going –the project document is signed and the project is operationally open.
• Completed – the project is operationally closed (financial closure is not necessary)
• Suspended – the activities of the project have been officially suspended at the request of one of the signatory parties.
• Pipeline - NGO is identified and a concept paper or project document is being/has been drafted, with funding identified (but not committed).
• Not Reported – the project information is not provided and updated in NGO Online Database.

Sector
Sectoral classifications organize projects according to their spheres of societal endeavor. For example, "productive" sectors create economic value by generating and distributing goods and services. "Infrastructure" sectors provide the basic installations and facilities on which communities depend. "Social" sectors provide for the mental, physical, and spiritual well-being of individuals and their communities. "Environmental" sectors sustain the earth's physical and biological assets. "Governance" sectors guide and administer the affairs of a state, community, organization or association. Sectoral classifications help provide the social and economic benchmarks used to measure a programme or project's impact.

Types of Assistance

Technical Cooperation
Includes both (a) grants to nationals of aid recipient countries receiving education or training at home or abroad, and (b) payments to consultants, advisers and similar personnel as well as teachers and administrators serving in recipient countries, (including the cost of associated equipment). Assistance of this kind provided specifically to facilitate the implementation of a capital project is included indistinguishably among bilateral project and programme expenditures, and not separately identified as technical co-operation in statistics of aggregate flows.

Free-standing Technical Cooperation
The provision of resources aimed at the transfer of technical and managerial skills and know-how or of technology for the purpose of building up national capacity to undertake development activities, without reference to the implementation of any specific investment project(s). FTC includes pre-investment activities, such as feasibility studies, when the investment itself has not yet been approved or funding not yet secured.

Investment-related Technical Cooperation
The provision of resources, as a separately identifiable activity, directly aimed at strengthening the capacity to execute specific investment projects (i.e. those that are associated with some material/tangible output). Included under ITC would be pre-investment-type activities directly related to the implementation of an approved investment project.

Investment Project/Programme Assistance
The provision of financing, in cash or in kind, for specific capital investment projects, i.e., projects that create productive capital which can generate new goods or services. Also known as capital assistance. Investment project assistance may have a technical co-operation component.

Food Aid (for Development purposes)
The provision of food for human consumption for developmental purposes, including grants and loans for the purchase of food. Associated costs such as transport, storage, distribution, etc., are also included in this category, as well as donor-supplied, food-related items such as animal food and agricultural inputs related to food production, when these are part of a food aid programme.

Emergency and Relief Assistance
The provision of resources aimed at immediately relieving distress and improving the well-being of populations affected by natural or man-made disasters. Food aid for humanitarian and emergency purposes is included in this category. Emergency and relief assistance is usually not related to national development efforts or to enhancing national capacity.