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OECD Development Assistance Committee (XM-DAC)

List Type: third_party

How to use

The code for this list is
XM-DAC. When you have located the organization you wish to identify in this list, you should either:

Enter it in an identifier database field prefixed with XM-DAC.

XM-DAC-[ IDENTIFIER ]

Examples

              
XM-DAC-963-1
              
XM-DAC-1-8
              
XM-DAC-41301

Alternatively, use it within a two-part identifier, with XM-DAC as the 'scheme', and the identifier you have located as the 'identifier' field.

Description

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) maintain a list of organisations whom are involved in the transfer of 'Official Development Assistance' (ODA) financial flows. This list provides a useful fall-back source of identification for government agencies and multilateral organisations involved in aid, and in some cases, for international NGOs.

The list is updated perioidically in response to demand for new entries from DAC members.

Users should note that this list is designed to identify both organisations *and* funds or programmes, and so not all entries in this list equate to legally registered organisations.

The list is available as a spreadsheet containing multiple codelists. Two can be used to construct organisation identifiers.

* The **Agency** list is used to construct identifiers for aid donor and recipient government agencies. This is constructed by combining the **donorcode** and **AgencyCode**, separated with a dash. For example, XM-DAC-1-8 identifies the Austrian (1) Development Agency (8).

* The **Channel codes** list is used to construct identifiers for multilateral organisations, and international NGOs for whom no other identifier is available. The 'Channel ID' should be used. For example, XM-DAC-41301 is the identifier for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

* The **Donor** list contains donor code values referring to the donor country as a whole. To maximise consistency, donor codes should not be used unless a specific agency, government department or fund is not identified for the reporting. In all other cases codes should be published in their 'Agency' form (e.g. XM-DAC-1-8 for Austrian Development Agency, rather than XM-DAC-1).

Users should also note that some organisations exist in both the 'Channel Codes' and 'Agency' lists. As the Channel Codes list provides a cross-walk, use of the Channel Codes is preferred in these cases.

Coverage:

Find and use identifiers

Users can download an Excel file of the DAC and CRS codes from the OECD website.

If you are searching for a multilateral organisation or international NGO, search the 'Channel codes' list. If you find the organisation you are looking for, use the value of the 'Channel ID' column.

If you are searching for government agency, search the 'Agency' list, and when you find the row you want, combine the 'donorcode' and 'AgencyCode' columns, separated by '-'.

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The contributors handbook details how to propose changes to an existing list, and how you can request or propose a new list.