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Abbreviations and acronyms

ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

ADB Asian Development Bank

AFP Australian Federal Police

AIPRD Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development

AP6 Asia–Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

APEC Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASEAN+6 ASEAN members plus Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan and Korea

AusAID Australian Agency for International Development

DAC Development Assistance Committee (of the OECD)

ECP Enhanced Cooperation Program

GDP Gross domestic product

HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus / acquired immune deficiency syndrome

IFI International financial institution

LDC Least developed country

MDG Millennium Development Goal

NGO Non-government organisation

ODA Official Development Assistance

ODE Office of Development Effectiveness

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

PNG Papua New Guinea

PPIAF Public–Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility

RAMSI Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands

SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome

US United States

WHO World Health Organization

WTO World Trade Organization

Glossary of selected terms

Adaptation (to climate change)

Adjustments in practices, processes, or structures to offset the potential for damage or take advantage of opportunities created by a given change in climate. There is potential for developed and developing countries to enhance and/or acquire adaptive capabilities.

Capacity building

The process of developing competencies and capabilities in individuals, groups, organisations, sectors or countries which will lead to sustained and self-generating performance improvement.

Delegation of Responsibility

Delegating responsibility of aid funding to another donor agency or organisation, which acts as the agent for aid delivery.

Fragile states

States that face particularly difficult development prospects because of weak governance, policies and institutions. Fragility can be exacerbated by political, economic and/or social instability, including conflict. There is no definitive list of fragile states — many are fragile in only some respects and may move in and out of fragility.

Fragmentation

Occurs when more than one donor is actively funding activities, with each donor taking little account of what the others are doing and imposing its own procedures. The burden of this lack of coordination is heavy for developing country administrations that are already struggling to function effectively.

Donor harmonisation

Coordination by donors of their processes and procedures, so that the burden of this aspect of aid provision is borne by them rather than by developing partner countries.

Official Development Assistance

Funding that flows to the recipient countries listed by the OECD as developing countries and to multilateral organisations. ODA-eligible funding is provided by official agencies (including federal, state and local governments and their executive agencies); administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective; is concessional; and conveys a grant element of at least 25 per cent. Policy coherence

Term used to describe how developed country policies that impact upon development (trade, investment, aid, migration, etc.), work together to support development in developing countries.

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