Purpose of aid charts: Focus on aid for water

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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.

CRS Aid Activity data corresponding to the above definition are presented hereunder through:     

Aid at a glance by recipient: Water Focus charts (commitments 2002-2004) (xls, 2.3MB); Water Focus charts (disbursements 2002-2004) (xls, 1.7MB);

The DAC Secretariat prepared the following analyses of aid flows in the water sector:

Measuring Aid to the Water Sector - Latest statistics from the Development DAC of the OECD confirm the upswing with a new sharp increase in the allocation of ODA to water supply and sanitation in 2005 (November 2007) Measuring aid for water - Has the downward trend in aid for water reversed ...? (World Water Forum - Mexico, March 2006) A statistical analysis of aid flows in the water sector in recent years (Stockholm World Water Week, August 2004), and An earlier version of the analysis: A statistical overview of aid flows in the water sector (prepared by the DAC Secretariat for the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, March 2003).

Metadata:  The CRS Aid Activity database is estimated to cover 85-90% of DAC countries’ bilateral ODA for the water sector in 1990-95.  From 1996 on the data are close to complete.

Note:  The definition of aid for water supply and sanitation excludes dams and reservoirs primarily for irrigation and hydropower and activities related to river transport (classed under aid to agriculture, energy and transport respectively – see purpose codes 31140, 23065 and 21040).  To prepare statistics on aid for water including these activities, connect to standard IDS online.

Trends in aid to water supply and sanitation 1973-2005, 5-year moving averages (constant 2005 prices)

See also OECD's web site "The water challenge: understanding the issues" at www.oecd.org/worldwaterforum4