Official Development Assistance

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ODA
Pronunciation
/əˈfɪʃəl dɪˈvɛləpmənt əˈsɪstəns/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
US Government

Examples in Context

  1. In Africa, for instance, such bonds could help countries dependent on limited official development assistance.
  2. This new era of financial austerity has reduced the funds available for domestic health programmes as well as for official development assistance.
  3. Future decisions on budgeting for official development assistance ( ODA ) will represent a significant test of this resolve.
  4. By2004, it had increased water-related lending to18 percent of total official development assistance ( ODA ).
  5. Official Development Assistance(ODA) ( ODA ) fell, widening the gap between the availability of aid and the needs of the poorest countries.

Other meanings of ODA