CRS User's Guide: Basic concepts - Aid activity

An aid activity can take many forms.  It could be a project or a programme, a cash transfer or delivery of goods, a training course or a research project, a debt relief operation or a contribution to a non-governmental organisation.  The Aid Activity database covers them all, but to facilitate database management some may have been aggregated (grouped) as follows: 

• Scholarships, contracts of individual experts and other technical co-operation activities of relatively small monetary value - by sector and recipient;
• Food and emergency aid - by recipient;  
• Donors’ administrative costs - by recipient or in one overall total.

The aggregation inevitably restricts the detail that can be provided on these activities.  Preference is given to sector and recipient identification rather than other criteria such as delivery channel or policy marker status.