- Name
- Official development assistance and public expenditure on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems
- Indicator purpose
- Total ODA flows to developing countries quantify the public effort that donors provide to developing countries for biodiversity.
- Abstract
- The indicator Official development assistance and public expenditure on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems are defined as Gross disbursements of total ODA from all donors for biodiversity.
- Contact organization / person
- Forest Department
- Unit of measure
- Sum of ODA flows from all donors
- Other characteristics
- N/A
- Classification used
- ODA: The DAC defines ODA as “those flows to countries and territories on the DAC List of ODA Recipients and to multilateral institutions which are i) provided by official agencies, including state and local governments, or by their executive agencies; and ii) each transaction is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective, and is concessional in character and conveys a grant element of at least 25 percent (calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent). (See http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/officialdevelopmentassistancedefinitionandcoverage.htm)
ODA marked for biodiversity is captured through the CRS via a marker.
‘All donors’ refers to DAC donors, non-DAC donors, and multilateral organizations.
- Disaggregation
- This indicator can be disaggregated by the donor, recipient country, type of finance, type of aid, sector, etc.
- Key statistical concepts
- The sum of ODA flows from all donors to developing countries that have biodiversity as a principal or significant objective.
- Recommended uses
- N/A
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Target 2020
- 15.b. Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
