ANNEX II

DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE

Development cooperation partner - The origin of Funds for development assistance (multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental organizations).

Date of questionnaire completed - The date on which the questionnaire was completed.

Currency used throughout questionnaire – The currency used in reporting the disbursements data. Most bilateral development partners report their disbursement data in their national currencies.

Q1. Development cooperation partner project/program number – The official project/program number assigned by the development partner to the project/program.

Q2. Official title – The project/program title that appears in the project/program official document.

Q3. Project/program objectives – The project/program objectives as stated in the official project/program document.

Q4. Responsible ministry - The responsible Ministry is the entity in a recipient country's Government which has the overall responsibility for the project. It can consequently be said to be the recipient government counterpart of the executing institution.

Q5. Executing Institution - The executing institution is the institution actually executing the program or project, from its inception to its completion. This includes the delivery of inputs as well as ensuring that the project meets its objective. The executing agency can be the development cooperation partner itself, the recipient Government, or an intermediary institution executing the project on behalf of the development cooperation partner. A subcontractor is not an executing institution but an implementer of an activity for the executing institution.

Q6. Beneficiary Institution - The beneficiary institution is the institution receiving the assistance of the development activity. There may be several such beneficiary institutions for anyone project. A recipient government department or ministry may be a beneficiary institution. The beneficiary institution should not be confused with the responsible ministry.

Q7. Project/program approval date - Approvals are considered to be made on the date the loan or grant agreement (specifying amount, financial terms and conditions and purpose of loan or grant) is signed. For certain special disbursements, e.g., emergency contributions, etc. the disbursement date should be taken as the date of approval.

Project/program start date – The actual start date of the implementation of the project/program.

Project/program completion date – Actual, if already completed, or planned completion date of the project/program.

Q8. Total project/program budget – The total resources committed to the project/program from all sources. (For an explanation of “committed” please see definition of “commitment” on next page).

Q9. Terms of Assistance

Grant - The provision of funds by a development cooperation partner that does not require reimbursement or repayment from the Royal Government of Cambodia. This includes “grant-like” flows, i.e. loans for which the original commitment stipulates that service payments (in local currency) are to be made into the account in the borrowing country to the benefit of that country.

Loan - The provision of resources, excluding food or other bulk commodities, for relief or development purposes, including import procurement programmes, which must be repaid according to conditions established at the time of the loan agreement or as subsequently agreed.
Concessional Loan - The provision of funds by a development cooperation partner as a loan which consists of a minimum 25 percent grant element, thus qualifying it as an ODA transaction. It is also commonly referred to as a “soft” loan.
Non-Concessional Loan - Any other funds being provided by the development cooperation partner that must be reimbursed or repaid over a period of time under terms which do not make it eligible as ODA.

Q10. Type of Assistance

Free-standing technical co-operation (FTC) - The provision of resources aimed at the transfer of technical and managerial skills and know-how or of technology for the purpose of building up national capacity to undertake development activities, without reference to the implementation of any specific investment project(s). FTC includes pre-investment activities, such as feasibility studies, when the investment itself has not yet been approved or funding not yet secured.

Investment-related technical co-operation (ITC) - The provision of resources, as a separately identifiable activity, directly aimed at strengthening the capacity to execute specific investment projects. Included under ITC would be pre-investment-type activities directly related to the implementation of an approved investment project.

Investment Project Assistance (IPA) - The provision of financing, in cash or in kind, for specific capital investment projects, i.e., projects that create productive capital which can generate new goods or services. Also known as capital assistance. Investment project assistance may have a technical co-operation component.

Programme/budgetary aid or balance-of-payments support (PBB) - The provision of assistance which is not cast in terms of specific investment or technical co-operation projects but which is instead provided in the context of broader development programme and macro-economic objectives and/or which is provided for the specific purpose of supporting the recipient’s balance-of-payments position and making available foreign exchange. This category includes non-food commodity input assistance in kind and financial grants and loans to pay for commodity inputs. It also includes resources ascribed to public debt forgiveness.

Food aid (FOA) - The provision of food for human consumption for developmental purposes, including grants and loans for the purchase of food. Associated costs such as transport, storage, distribution, etc., are also included in this category, as well as development cooperation partner-supplied, food-related items such as animal food and agricultural inputs related to food production, when these are part of a food aid programme.

Emergency and relief (humanitarian) assistance (ERA) - The provision of resources aimed at immediately relieving distress and improving the well-being of populations affected by natural or man-made disasters. Food aid for humanitarian and emergency purposes is included in this category. Emergency and relief assistance is usually not related to national development efforts nor to enhancing national capacity. Although it is recorded as Official Development Assistance (ODA), its focus is on humanitarian assistance and not on development co-operation as such.

Q11. Disbursements – Disbursements represent the actual international transfer of financial resources. They may be recorded at one of several stages: provision of good and services, placing of funds at the disposal of the recipient in an earmarked- fund or account, payment by the development cooperation partner of invoices on behalf of the recipient, etc.

Q12. Commitments - A commitment is a firm obligation expressed in an agreement or equivalent contract supported by the availability of public funds, undertaken by the development cooperation partner, to furnish assistance of a specified amount under agreed financial terms and conditions and for specific purposes, for the benefit of the recipient country.

Q13. Sector: Whereas projects' areas of focus relate to development objectives, sectoral classifications organize projects according to their spheres of societal endeavour. For example, "productive" sectors create economic value by generating and distributing goods and services. "Infrastructure" sectors provide the basic installations and facilities on which communities depend. "Social" sectors provide for the mental, physical, and spiritual well-being of individuals and their communities. "Environmental" sectors sustain the earth's physical and biological assets. "Governance" sectors guide and administer the affairs of a state, community, organization or association. Sectoral classifications help provide the social and economic benchmarks used to measure a programme or project's impact. A project's sector will normally be the sector its implementing agency works in.

1. Economic Management, includes:

• Macro-economic policy and planning

• Fiscal policy and planning

• Monetary policy and planning

• Employment/livelihood policy and planning
  

2. Development administration, includes:

• Public administration and management

• Foreign aid coordination and planning (includes round tables, consultative group meetings and country programme review missions)

• Debt management

• Technology policy and planning

• General statistics (including demography)

• General cartography

• Foreign affairs and international law (excluding trade law)
  

3. Natural resources, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Land use planning

• Water resources planning

• Environmental preservation and rehabilitation

• Mineral resources exploration and exploitation

• Coal, petroleum exploration and exploitation

• Wildlife and national parks

• Sea-bed resources
  

4. Education (HRD), includes:

• Sector policy and planning (includes manpower planning)

• Pre and primary schooling

• Secondary schooling

• Tertiary education

• Technical and managerial education and training

• Non-formal education (includes literacy and adult basic education)

5. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Research and development

• Support services (includes credit, extension, input supply, crop protection, agrometeorology)

• Food crops

• Industrial crops

• Livestock

• Forestry

• Fisheries (includes oceanography as it relates to fishing)
  

6. Area development, includes:

• Integrated rural development

• Village/community development (includes rural and urban cooperatives)

• Settlements

• Intercountry area development

• River basin development

• Regional planning and development
  

7. Industry, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Technological research and development

• Support services (includes industrial estates and duty-free zones (only if industry-wide, otherwise under specific kinds of industry))

• Cottage and small-scale industry

• Medium-scale industry

• Large-scale industry
  

8. Energy, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• New and renewable sources of energy (includes fuelwood, methane, synthetic, solar, biomass, wind, wave, etc.)

• Hydroelectric power generation and transmission

• Geothermal power generation and transmission

• Conventional energy sources, generation and transmission (includes coal, petroleum, etc.)

• Energy conservation (includes improved stoves)
  

9. International trade in goods and services, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Global trade policies and procedures (including GATT, GSP etc.)

• International trade in primary goods (food, raw materials, etc.)

• International trade in secondary goods

• International trade in services (e.g., banking, insurance, etc.)

• Export promotion
  

10. Domestic trade in goods and services, includes:

•  Sector policy and planning

• Domestic marketing

• Domestic trade

• Tourism

• Other service industries

• Patents
  

11. Transport, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Road transport

• Rail transport

• Water transport and shipping

• Air transport
  

12. Communications, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Postal services

• Telecommunications

• Television, radio and print media

• Development support communication

13. Social development, includes;

•  Social legislation and administration (includes social security, occupational health and safety, legislation on women, etc.)

• Urban development (includes sites and services, urban planning, etc.)

• Drinking water and sanitation

• Housing

• Culture (includes preservation, copyrights, general libraries)

• Prevention of crime and drug abuse
  

14. Health, includes:

• Sector policy and planning

• Primary health care (includes maternal and child health, nutrition)

• Immunization and other disease control campaigns

• Family planning

• Hospitals and clinics
  

15. Disaster preparedness, includes:

• Meteorology (as it relates to weather warning systems)

• Seismic predictions

• Early warning/food information systems

• Relief planning and institutional preparedness

• Physical measures
  

16. Humanitarian aid and relief, includes:

• Refugees and returnees

• Emergency relief (food, planning and logistics, medical supplies)
  

| Content | Back | Top | Next |