Glossary
A
Actual expenditure to date
Approved budget
Are all 3 partner country public financial management systems used?
Are at least 2 partner country systems being used?
Are conditions attached?
Are partner country audit systems used?
Are partner country budget systems used?
Are partner country financial reporting systems used?
Are partner country procurement systems used?
C
Cause?
Consequences
Continent/country
Cross cutting objectives (CCOs)
D
Date suspended?
DFID financial year
Does the contribution fit within a single programme/budget framework?
E
End date
F
Free text
H
Has disbursement been suspended?
I
Is the contribution led by the host country/organisation?
Is this contribution aid to the government sector?
Is there a process for co-ordinating donors?
Is this a Programme Based Approach?
N
Nature of funding
P
Project component code
Project component title
Project title
Purpose
R
Risk
S
Sector group/sector
Source of Funding
Stage
Start date
T
Total lifetime approved budget / total budget (£):
This is the total amount of money (£) that has been spent on the project.
Note: This figure has been rounded down to the nearest full pound
Note: This figure has been rounded down to the nearest full pound
Budgets are adjusted after approval and this field shows the revised total (£) of this.
Note: This figure has been rounded down to the nearest full pound.
Note: This figure has been rounded down to the nearest full pound.
This field shows if the project has met the Paris Declaration target
on the use of national Public Financial Management (PMF) systems by
summarising the answers to the following 3 questions:
If the target has been met, the field displays a 'Yes'. This indicates
that all 3 questions were answered with a 'Yes'.
- 'Uses national budget execution procedures?'
- 'Reported through partner Gov financial reporting procedures?'
- 'Audited through partner Gov systems?'
If the target has been met, the field displays a 'Yes'. This indicates
that all 3 questions were answered with a 'Yes'.
This field displays whether the donor support uses at least two of the following local systems:
- Project design
- Project implementation
- Financial management
- Monitoring and evaluation.
A condition is an action, circumstance or situation which is required for committed aid to be disbursed. If a condition is not
fulfilled it could lead to payments being delayed or suspended. Transparent conditions are essential for accountability to the UK
Parliament and public, ensuring that aid is used effectively and for the purposes intended. Making conditions transparent is also important to
support country ownership and strengthen domestic accountability of developing country governments to their people and
parliaments. This field indicates shows whether or not the project has any specific conditions attached to the pledge of aid. Note that as of January 2006, all project documents contain details of
conditions under conditionality section 5.
This field should only be populated with a Yes if the funds provided
will be covered by the audit opinions, issued by the country's supreme
audit institution, on the government's normal financial
reports/statements. The use of national auditing procedures means that
donors do not make additional requirements on governments for auditing.
This field can only be populated with a Yes when the funds provided are managed according to the national budgeting procedures as they were
established in the general legislation and implemented by government. This means that projects supported by donors are subject to normal
country budgetary execution procedures for authorisation, approval and payment.
This field should only be populated with a Yes if national financial
reporting has been used and that donors do not make additional
requirements on governments for financial reporting. In particular, it
means that donors do NOT require:
- Maintenance of a separate accounting system to satisfy donor reporting requirements
- Creation of a separate chart of account to record the use of donor funds.
This indicates if the funds used to procure goods and services use the Government's rather than DFID's procurement system.
This is the cause of the disbursement suspension due to a breach in conditionality requirements
These are the consequences of the suspension of disbursement due to a breach in conditionality requirements.
These are the continents and countries that benefit from the project.
Cross Cutting Objectives allow expenditure on themes which cut across a range of sectors to be tracked. There are
two Cross Cutting Objectives - Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS.
This shows the date the disbursement was suspended due to a breach in conditionality requirements.
This shows the financial year for DFID and is based on a 12 month duration from April to March the following calendar year.
This field displays whether there is a single comprehensive project and budget framework
This is the end date of the project. Note that some projects will not have an end date as they are still in operation.
This field searches for matches in the following areas:
Project title
Purpose
Sector group/sector
Project code
Continent
Country
Nature of funding
Please note that the following search rules apply to this field:
Project title
Purpose
Sector group/sector
Project code
Continent
Country
Nature of funding
Please note that the following search rules apply to this field:
- Boolean search is not available
- To search for a phrase, use double quotation marks e.g. "child protection" will search for the specific phrase child protection
- To search for word combinations, type the specific keywords in e.g. child protection will search for all results that have the terms child AND protection
This field indicates if the disbursement to the project has been suspended due to a breach in conditionality requirements.
This field displays whether the host country or organisation is
exercising leadership over the project supported by donors.
This essentially measures aid predictability to partner governments. If aid funds are due to go to the government of a country then that
government should be told in advance.The Government Sector refers to Administrations (ministries,departments, agencies or municipalities) authorised to receive revenue
This field displays whether there is be a formal process for donor coordination and harmonisation of donor procedures
for reporting budgeting, financial management and procurement.
This field tells us whether the project is a programme-based
approach.
A programme-based approach is defined by the DAC as:
“a way of engaging in development cooperation based on the principles of co-ordinated support for a locally owned programme of development, such as a national development strategy, a sector programme, a thematic programme or a programme of a specific organisation”.
In order to qualify as PBA, the following 4 questions must be answered 'Yes' to be classed as a PBA.
A programme-based approach is defined by the DAC as:
“a way of engaging in development cooperation based on the principles of co-ordinated support for a locally owned programme of development, such as a national development strategy, a sector programme, a thematic programme or a programme of a specific organisation”.
In order to qualify as PBA, the following 4 questions must be answered 'Yes' to be classed as a PBA.
- Single programme/budget framework?
- Leadership by host country/organisation?
- Formalised process for harmonisation of donor procedures?
- Efforts to increase use of local systems?
These values are types of aid funding with a focus on who first receives the funds (excluding payment through Crown
Agents Bank).
Procurement of goods
DFID procurement of goods (including any contracted through NGOs/CSOs) e.g. all equipment and supplies.
Procurement of services
DFID procurement of services (including any contracted through NGOs/CSOs) which includes actions relating to ‘Technical Cooperation'.
Emergency aid
Until recently all Humanitarian Assistance fell under Emergency Aid, however in order to report more effectively it has been decided that Emergency Aid is only allocated to projects that are classified as Emergency situations only, which result from man made crises or natural disasters e.g.
Material relief assistance and service: shelter, water, sanitation and health services, supply of medicines and other non food relief items, assistance to refugees and internally displaced people in developing countries other than for food or protection.
Emergency food aid: Food aid normally to general free distribution or special supplementary feeding programmes; short term relief to targeted population groups affected by emergency situations. Excludes non emergency food security assistance programmes/food aid.
Relief co-ordination; protection and support services: measures to co-ordinate delivery of emergency humanitarian aid, including logistics and communications systems; measures to promote and protect the safety, well being, dignity and integrity of civilians and those no longer taking part in hostilities)
Non emergency food security assistance programmes/food aid and reconstruction relief and rehabilitation do NOT belong here; instead they are treated like any other bilateral/multilateral project, with the relevant sector group and sector information
Budget support
Budget support takes into account both General Budget Support (GBS) and Sector Budget Support (SBS). GBS is a general contribution to the overall budget. It aims to help implement the government's poverty reduction strategy in order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.The funds flow directly to partner governments and are pooled with their own funds. DFID funds cannot be identified separately from partner government funds so cannot be easily allocated to sectors. DFID uses a standardized methodology to notionally allocate GBS to sectors in the same proportions as the recipient Government allocated total resources to ODA (Official Development Assistance) eligible activity i.e. if a government intends to spend 25% of its budget on education,25% of GBS provided would be attributed to education. SBS is a contribution to the overall budget which primarily aims to achieve objectives within a particular sector either at national or sub national level. The SBS may be earmarked and may be transferred to a sector specific bank account over which government has financial authority. Where budget support is provided to a sub-national level of government to achieve a range of sector impacts it will be classified as SBS.
Other financial aid to government
Provided to partner governments to meet the cost of specified projects of expenditure which aim to increase the physical capital of the recipient country including local and recurrent costs. A project can be identifiable as having ‘Other financial aid to government' funding if any of the four following issues can be identifiable:
Procurement of goods
DFID procurement of goods (including any contracted through NGOs/CSOs) e.g. all equipment and supplies.
Procurement of services
DFID procurement of services (including any contracted through NGOs/CSOs) which includes actions relating to ‘Technical Cooperation'.
Emergency aid
Until recently all Humanitarian Assistance fell under Emergency Aid, however in order to report more effectively it has been decided that Emergency Aid is only allocated to projects that are classified as Emergency situations only, which result from man made crises or natural disasters e.g.
Material relief assistance and service: shelter, water, sanitation and health services, supply of medicines and other non food relief items, assistance to refugees and internally displaced people in developing countries other than for food or protection.
Emergency food aid: Food aid normally to general free distribution or special supplementary feeding programmes; short term relief to targeted population groups affected by emergency situations. Excludes non emergency food security assistance programmes/food aid.
Relief co-ordination; protection and support services: measures to co-ordinate delivery of emergency humanitarian aid, including logistics and communications systems; measures to promote and protect the safety, well being, dignity and integrity of civilians and those no longer taking part in hostilities)
Non emergency food security assistance programmes/food aid and reconstruction relief and rehabilitation do NOT belong here; instead they are treated like any other bilateral/multilateral project, with the relevant sector group and sector information
Budget support
Budget support takes into account both General Budget Support (GBS) and Sector Budget Support (SBS). GBS is a general contribution to the overall budget. It aims to help implement the government's poverty reduction strategy in order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.The funds flow directly to partner governments and are pooled with their own funds. DFID funds cannot be identified separately from partner government funds so cannot be easily allocated to sectors. DFID uses a standardized methodology to notionally allocate GBS to sectors in the same proportions as the recipient Government allocated total resources to ODA (Official Development Assistance) eligible activity i.e. if a government intends to spend 25% of its budget on education,25% of GBS provided would be attributed to education. SBS is a contribution to the overall budget which primarily aims to achieve objectives within a particular sector either at national or sub national level. The SBS may be earmarked and may be transferred to a sector specific bank account over which government has financial authority. Where budget support is provided to a sub-national level of government to achieve a range of sector impacts it will be classified as SBS.
Other financial aid to government
Provided to partner governments to meet the cost of specified projects of expenditure which aim to increase the physical capital of the recipient country including local and recurrent costs. A project can be identifiable as having ‘Other financial aid to government' funding if any of the four following issues can be identifiable:
- Detailed specification about what the funds can be used for. Detailed means below sub sector level and identifying budget heads or sub heads, goods or services.
- Use of aid can be identified independently of other resources in the government's budget through the use of detailed account codes or by tracking to the level of goods or services it purchases.
- The partner government can account for how the resources have been used by providing a separate Annual Audited Statement confirming that DFID's resources were used as intended. If necessary, DFID may use another independent audit process to obtain assurance about the annual statement of account produced by the partner government.
- Funds are reimbursed on receipt of evidence of expenditure on eligible terms.
Multilateral organisation
Multilateral organisations can receive the following types of contributions:
Core compulsory contributions - These are contributions which must be paid under certain agreements usually international.
Core voluntary contributions - These are contributions which are not legally required to be paid but are voluntary given to contribute to regular or non project specific costs of an institution.
Non core voluntary contributions - Are multilateral contributions which have a specific objective in mind, such as capacity building for the organisation, the provision of secondees to the multilateral organisation or support to individual country programmes.
Development bank replenishment
Development Bank replenishments (or 'promissory notes') are a way of funding multilateral organisations where DFID 'deposits' funds with the Bank of England. Multilateral organisations then 'encash' these funds as they need them. On this website, you will see the deposits of these amounts, this is consistent with how DFID reports internationally to the OECD DAC.
Not for profit organisation
Grant to 'not for profit' organisations such as to NGO's and Civil Society (excluding contracts awarded to 'not for profit' organisations), for example:
Accountable Grants
Partnership Programme Arrangements (PPA)
Challenge Fund
Development Awareness Fund
Strategic Grants
Conflict Humanitarian Fund
Other bilateral donor
DFID can provide finance to other donors for shared development purposes, ways of working include Joint Programmes and Basket Funds, although this value is only used when DFID is working with another bilateral donor and the project does not fit into any of the other bilateral nature of funding types.
Multilateral organisations can receive the following types of contributions:
Core compulsory contributions - These are contributions which must be paid under certain agreements usually international.
Core voluntary contributions - These are contributions which are not legally required to be paid but are voluntary given to contribute to regular or non project specific costs of an institution.
Non core voluntary contributions - Are multilateral contributions which have a specific objective in mind, such as capacity building for the organisation, the provision of secondees to the multilateral organisation or support to individual country programmes.
Development bank replenishment
Development Bank replenishments (or 'promissory notes') are a way of funding multilateral organisations where DFID 'deposits' funds with the Bank of England. Multilateral organisations then 'encash' these funds as they need them. On this website, you will see the deposits of these amounts, this is consistent with how DFID reports internationally to the OECD DAC.
Not for profit organisation
Grant to 'not for profit' organisations such as to NGO's and Civil Society (excluding contracts awarded to 'not for profit' organisations), for example:
Accountable Grants
Partnership Programme Arrangements (PPA)
Challenge Fund
Development Awareness Fund
Strategic Grants
Conflict Humanitarian Fund
Other bilateral donor
DFID can provide finance to other donors for shared development purposes, ways of working include Joint Programmes and Basket Funds, although this value is only used when DFID is working with another bilateral donor and the project does not fit into any of the other bilateral nature of funding types.
These are unique identifiers for each component comprising a project.
This is additional detail that identifies the project.
This is a concise statement of 50 characters (including spaces) that identifies the project.
This gives more information about the aims of the project, such as why the project is/has been designed and authorised,
what its purpose is, who will benefit and how it fits with DFID's goals.
Information on risk is required for reporting against DFID's Public Service Agreement, and is available for every project* once the risk
identification and assessment have been completed in relation to the achievement of the project's objectives and purpose.
* (with the exception of some humanitarian assistance projects where they have a dispensation for rapid disbursement)
* (with the exception of some humanitarian assistance projects where they have a dispensation for rapid disbursement)
The sector of a contribution answers the question “which specific area of the recipient's economic or social structure is the transfer
intended to foster”. A project can have up to 8 Sectors, which are displayed with percentage allocations that total up to 100%. A Sector Group is a grouping of like Sectors. A search on any selected Sector
Group / Sector will bring back all projects that work within the relevant Sector criteria specified, regardless of size of the
allocation.
Note: The sector names presented here are fully consistent with the DAC sector classifications. However, as explained above the sectors published on this website are based on DFID's multisectoral approach. In contrast, when DFID reports to the DAC, we only report one sector per project component (i.e. the one with the highest percentage). This is in line with DAC guidelines and ensures that all donors report consistently.
Note: The sector names presented here are fully consistent with the DAC sector classifications. However, as explained above the sectors published on this website are based on DFID's multisectoral approach. In contrast, when DFID reports to the DAC, we only report one sector per project component (i.e. the one with the highest percentage). This is in line with DAC guidelines and ensures that all donors report consistently.
Source of Funding: The name of the DFID department which funds this development activity.
This field indicates the current stage of the project.
- Operational - The project has been approved and may be being implemented
- Complete - The project has been completed
This is the start date of the project component - users can search using the month and year combination or the year alone.
This is the total amount of money (£) that has been approved to be spent over the lifetime of the project.' The disbursement of these funds are at the discretion of DFID.
Note: These figures have been rounded down to the nearest full pound.
Note: These figures have been rounded down to the nearest full pound.