A measure that captures flows to partner countries for long-term sustainable development
Country programmable aid (CPA) tracks the amount of official development assistance (ODA) that is programmed for long-term sustainable development and responds to the needs and priorities of partner countries.
CPA excludes flows that are unpredictable by nature, entail no cross-border flows, or do not form part of co-operation agreements between governments. It is calculated by subtracting the following categories of aid from gross bilateral ODA:
- Debt relief
- Humanitarian aid
- Administrative costs not included elsewhere
- Imputed student costs
- Promotion of development awareness
- Refugees in donor country
- Core support to NGOs
- Equity investments
- Other unallocated ODA
Transparency and granularity
Users can explore CPA at the level of individual activities, using a subset of the OECD’s database on aid activities (the Creditor Reporting System). This allows them to conduct granular analysis on:
- who is giving CPA, where, how, and for what purpose
- which providers are active in a given partner country, and how they are spending their aid in support of its needs and priorities.
The CPA measure thus supplies an indispensable baseline for development co-operation partners wishing to tailor their strategies to each specific context.