The Impact of Decentralised Development Co‑operation

Abbreviations and acronyms

AECID	Spanish Agency for International Development Co-operation
AI	Artificial intelligence
AICS	Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
BLP	German Government and Federal States Programme
BMZ	German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
CHF	Swiss franc
CIDC	Korean Committee for International Development Cooperation
CO2	Carbon dioxide
CONFOCOS	Spanish Confederation of Co-operation and Solidarity
CRS	OECD Creditor Reporting System
CSO	Civil society organisation
DAC	OECD Development Assistance Committee
DCTCIV	Délégation pour les collectivités territoriales et la société civile, French Delegation for Local Authorities and Civil Society
DDC	Decentralised development co-operation
EC	European Commission
EQI	European Quality of Government Index
ETH	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
EU	European Union
EUR	Euro
FCM	Federation of Canadian Municipalities
FEMP	Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces
FUA	Functional urban area
G20	Group of Twenty
GAC	Global Affairs Canada
GADM	Database of Global Administrative Areas
GDP	Gross domestic product
GHS-UCDB	Global Human Settlement Urban Centre Database
GIZ	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH
GNI	Gross national income
JICA	Japan International Cooperation Agency
JRC	EC Joint Research Centre
LEZ	Landesstelle für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Berlin’s central development agency
LRGs	Local and regional governments
LSCAU	Lublin Social Committee for Assistance to Ukraine
M&E	Monitoring and evaluation
MPK	German Conference of Federal State Prime Ministers
NGO	Non-governmental organisation
ODA	Official development assistance
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PPP	Purchasing power parity
RDPC	Regional Development Policy Committee
SDG	UN Sustainable Development Goal
SHDI	Global Data Lab Subnational Human Development Index
SKEW	Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt, Service Agency Communities in One World
TL2	OECD large regions (Territorial Level 2)
TL3	OECD small regions (Territorial Level 3)
TOSSD	Total official support for sustainable development
UN	United Nations
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UN-Habitat	United Nations Human Settlements Programme
USD	United States dollar
VNG International	International Cooperation Agency of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities