Fragility intensifies in contexts with high exposure to risk and insufficient coping capacities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks. The OECD’s multidimensional fragility framework measures the intensity of fragility across six dimensions: economic, environmental, human, political, security and societal. It provides evidence on exposure to fragility and monitors international flows in response to this fragility.
Contexts experiencing high and extreme fragility receive support from donors via official development assistance (ODA), private financial flows and other official flows. Donors include Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members, select non-DAC countries and multilateral development banks. Foreign direct investment, remittances, taxes and debt are other sources of finance to address fragility.