SDG Indicator 17.9.1: Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
1. Key features and metadata
Definition: This indicator tracks the gross disbursements of total official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows (OFF) from all donors for capacity building and national planning.
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DC_FTA_TOTAL Total official development assistance (gross disbursement) for technical cooperation (millions of 2023 USD) |
No current data disaggregation available. |
Sources of information: Data is reported annually by statistical reporters in national administrations (i.e. aid agencies, Ministries of Foreign Affairs or Finance, etc.).
Related SDG Indicators: All other indicators.
2. Data availability by region, SDG Global Database, as of 02 July 2025
3. Proposed disaggregation, links to policymaking and its impact
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Total official development assistance (gross disbursement) for technical cooperation, by donor (millions of 2023 USD)(OECD n.d.) Applies to:
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This disaggregation emphasizes the respective share of each donor to the global financial effort. It can be used by decision-makers to identify untapped resources,potential partnerships and cooperations to promote among donors, leveraging existing financing resources(OECD n.d.). |
Recent major shocks and threats worldwide (i.e. the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine-Russia war and Israeli-Palestinian war) – with their political, economic and social consequences (i.e. global recession, growing pressure on food security, rising energy prices, and world trade slowing down) – have brought to light the risk of divergences between the increasing financial needs of developing countries to support sustainable development and the ODA commitments of donors. As a result, the SDG financing gap is widening and humanitarian and development challenges are not being met. Developed and developing countries could work together to promotemutually reinforcing actions by all actors (i.e. governments, development finance institutions, institutional investors, asset managers, and other financial intermediaries). Support for strengthened public-private partnerships to mobilize a greater portion of global finance to meet the SDGs is needed, coupled with enhanced accountability on SDG alignment and business and private sector liabilities(OECD and United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] 2020). |
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Total official development assistance (gross disbursement) for technical cooperation, by sector and types of financial flows (ODA and OFF) (millions of 2023 USD)(OECD n.d.)
Applies to:
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This disaggregation provides relevant information on the primary purpose of the attributed funds and their potential impact on the development of recipient countries. It gives an indication of the preference of donors and their alignment with those of beneficiary countries as well as the kind of support they can offer. It also helps countries as well as the international community to identify their gaps and the type of aid they need to close them. Thus, it contributes to enhancing the monitoring and the improvement of development finance to support sustainable development outcomes(OECD n.d.). |