Monitoring financial flows and their allocation is an important aspect of the Development Assistance Committee's programme of work. The DAC Working Party on Statistics brings international aid statisticians together to look at how statistics respond to key development issues.

The main objectives are to:

1. Collect and publish timely information and comprehensive statistics of official and private flows to all countries and territories on the DAC List of Aid recipients.

2. Improve consistency, presentation and coverage to reflect current development co-operation priorities and classifications.

3. Update reporting guidance to maintain comparable statistics.

4. Improve reporting and comparability of statistics on the tying status of aid.

5. Support the work on changing patterns of development finance and the increasing role of private flows.

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