Focus on Aid to Water and Sanitation

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Definition:  The DAC defines aid to water supply and sanitation as including water resources policy, planning and programmes, water legislation and management, water resources development, water resources protection, water supply and use, sanitation (including solid waste management) and education and training in water supply and sanitation.

Dynamic graphics - financing water and sanitation in developing countries: the contribution of external aid

• Financing water and sanitation in developing countries: the contribution of external aid, June 2010
• Measuring Aid to Water Supply and Sanitation, statistics on aid to the water sector, February 2009
• DAC members' imputed multilateral contributions in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector: Secretariat estimations (updated August 2011) and methodology
• Donor Profiles on Aid to Water Supply and Sanitation, OECD in collaboration with the World Water Council, December 2008
• Water Focus Charts: Commitments, average 2006-08; Water Focus Charts: Disbursements, average 2006-08 
• CRS Aid Activities in Support of Water Supply and Sanitation, 2001-2006

Previous documentation on this topic:

- Study in November 2007

- 4th World Water Forum -  Mexico, March 2006

- Stockholm World Water Week, August 2004

Note:  To obtain statistics on aid to water, connect to International Development Statistics (IDS) online or click on the followings links:

• Aid to water and other water-related sectors by sub-sector (includes dams and reservoirs primarily for irrigation and hydropower and activities related to river transport, classed under aid to agriculture, energy and transport respectively)
• Aid to water by donor
• Aid to water by recipient

For more information on OECD work on Water:

www.oecd.org/water