The investment is intended to enhance fundamental elements of democratic and inclusive governance across all areas of development co-operation. Participatory Development/Good Governance is also known as Democratic and Inclusive Governance.

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Performance Ratings are the mechanism by which investment managers review performance of their investments against standard quality criteria. They collectively provide DFAT with an overall assessment of the effectiveness and achievements of the Australian development program.

Policy markers are qualitative tools for identifying how an investment contributes toward policies or themes. It does not quantitatively measure the amount spent towards that policy. Policy markers are based on the most up to date data available. In DFAT’s systems policy markers are also marked against multilaterals to assist in other types of reporting . In OECD reporting policy markers are only shown against reporters’ bilateral contributions as multilateral organisations report against policy markers in their own reporting submissions. 

The following is the list of current DAC policy markers:

1    Gender Equality    
2    Aid to Environment    
3    Participatory Development/Good Governance (also known as Democratic and Inclusive Governance)   
4    Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (also known as Biological Diversity)
5    Aid Targeting the Objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement – Climate Change Mitigation (also known as Climate Change - Mitigation)
6    Aid Targeting the Objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement – Climate Change Adaptation (also known as Climate Change - Adaptation)
7    Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification  (also known as  Desertification)  
8    Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH)    
9    Aid targeting the objectives of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (also known as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR))    
10   Inclusion and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (also known as Disability)    
11    Nutrition

 

Principal (primary) policy objectives are those which can be identified as being fundamental in the design and impact of the investment and which are an explicit objective of the investment. They may be selected by answering the question “would the investment have been undertaken without this objective?”

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E