| AAAA | Addis Ababa Action Agenda |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| AfDB | African Development Bank |
| ATI | Addis Tax Initiative |
| AUC | African Union Commission |
| CPA | Country programmable aid |
| DAC | Development Assistance Committee (OECD) |
| DFI | Development Finance Institutions |
| DPP | Disaster prevention and preparedness |
| EUR | Euro |
| FAO | Food and Agricultural Organization (UN) |
| FDI | Foreign direct investment |
| GBD | Global burden of disease |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GNI | Gross domestic income |
| HDI | Human Development Index |
| IDMC | Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre |
| IFC | International Finance Corporation |
| IFF | Illicit financial flow |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INCAF | International Network on Conflict and Fragility |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| MDG | Millennium Development Goal |
| NEET | Not in employment, education or training |
| ODA | Official development assistance |
| OOF | Other official flows |
| PARIS21 | Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century |
| PSG | Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Goal |
| PTS | Political Terror Scale |
| SALW | Small arms and light weapons |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goal |
| SIPRI | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| SME | Small and medium-sized enterprise |
| SSR | Security sector reform |
| TI | Transparency International |
| TOSSD | Total official support for sustainable development |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UN DESA | United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNHCR | UN Refugee Agency |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| USD | United States dollar |
| V-DEM | Varieties of Democracy |
| WDI | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WBG | World Bank Group |