| AIIB | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
| ADA | Austrian Development Agency |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| AFD | Agence Française de Développement (France) |
| AfDB | African Development Bank |
| BMZ | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany) |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus disease 2019 |
| DAC | Development Assistance Committee |
| DEval | German Institute for Development Evaluation (Germany) |
| DFAT | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia) |
| EBA | Expert Group for Aid Studies (Sweden) |
| EvalNet | Development Assistance Committee Network on Development Evaluation |
| FCDO | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK) |
| FPS Foreign Affairs | Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs (Belgium) |
| GAC | Global Affairs Canada |
| GEI | Global Evaluation Initiative |
| GIZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Germany) |
| GNI | Gross national income |
| IOB | Policy and Operations Evaluation Department |
| IsDB | Islamic Development Bank |
| JICA | Japan International Cooperation Agency |
| KfW | Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Development Bank (Germany) |
| KOICA | Korean International Cooperation Agency (Korea) |
| MEAE | Ministere de l'Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (France) |
| NORAD | Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norway) |
| ODA | Official development assistance |
| SDC | Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (Switzerland) |
| SEO | Special Evaluation Office (Belgium) |
| SIDA | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sweden) |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
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