ACT |
Artemisinin-based combination therapy |
ADF |
Africa Development Fund |
ADFD |
Abu Dhabi Fund for Development |
AECF |
African Enterprise Challenge Fund |
AFD |
Agence Française de Developpement |
AfDB |
African Development Bank |
AGOA |
African Growth and Opportunity Act |
AHSI |
African Health Systems Initiative |
ALSF |
African Legal Support Facility |
AMC |
Advance Market Commitment |
AMFm |
Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria |
APP |
African Progress Panel |
ARF |
African Renaissance Fund |
ART |
Antiretroviral therapy |
ARV |
Antiretroviral |
AU |
African Union |
BMGF |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
BMU |
German Ministry of the Environment |
BMZ |
German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development |
CAADP |
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme |
CAP |
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy |
CFA |
Comprehensive Framework for Action |
CIDA |
Canadian International Development Agency |
CIFA |
Canadian Investment Fund for Africa |
CO2 |
Carbon Dioxide |
COMESA |
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
CSO |
Civil society organisation |
DAC |
Development Assistance Committee |
DDA |
Doha Development Agenda |
DDR |
Doha Development Round |
DfID |
Department for International Development (UK) |
DFQF |
Duty-free and Quota-free Market Access |
DOTS |
Directly Observed Therapy |
DRI |
Debt Relief International |
EAC |
East African Community |
EBA |
Everything But Arms Programme |
ECOWAS |
Economic Community of Western States |
EFA |
Education for All |
EITI |
Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative |
EPA |
Economic Partnership Agreement |
EPSA |
Enhanced Private Sector Assistance |
ETF |
Education Transition Fund |
ETS |
European Trading Scheme |
FAO |
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
FDI |
Foreign direct investment |
FTI |
Fast Track Initiative |
FTT |
Financial transaction tax |
GAFSP |
Global Agriculture Food Security Programme |
GAVI |
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations |
GBS |
General Budget Support |
GDP |
Gross domestic product |
GFATM |
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
GFRP |
Global Food Response Programme |
GHCP |
Global Health Care Partnership |
GIR |
Gross intake ratio |
GMAP |
Global Malaria Action Plan |
GNI |
Gross national income |
GPEI |
Global Polio Eradication Initiative |
HIPC |
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries |
HLTF |
UN High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis |
IATI |
International Aid Transparency Initiative |
IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
ICA |
Infrastructure Consortium for Africa |
ICF |
Investment Climate Facility for Africa |
IDA |
International Development Association (World Bank) |
IFC |
International Finance Corporation (World Bank) |
IFFIm |
International Financing Facility for Immunisations |
IFIs |
International Financing Institutions |
IFPRI |
International Food Policy Research Institute |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
INFRA |
Infrastructure Recovery and Assets Platform |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
ITN |
Insecticide-treated net |
KFAED |
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development |
LDCs |
Least Developed Countries |
LDCT |
Least-Developed Countries’ Tariff |
LICs |
Low-Income Countries |
LLITNs |
Long-lasting insecticide-treated bed-nets |
MCA |
Millennium Challenge Account |
MDG |
Millennium Development Goal |
MDRI |
Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative |
MDR-TB |
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis |
MFW4A |
Making Finance Work for Africa |
MOEA |
Ministry of External Affairs (India) |
NEPAD |
New Partnership for Africa’s Development |
NER |
Net enrolment ratio |
NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
NTD |
Neglected tropical disease |
ODA |
Official Development Assistance |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OPIC |
Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
P4P |
Purchase for Progress |
PCR |
Primary school completion rate |
PEPFAR |
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief |
PMI |
President’s Malaria Initiative |
PMTCT |
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (of HIV) |
S&DT |
Special and Differentiated Treatment |
SACU |
Southern African Customs Union |
SADC |
Southern African Development Community |
SCAAP |
Special Commonwealth African Assistance Program (India) |
SDF |
Saudi Development Fund |
SSA |
Sub-Saharan Africa |
StAR |
Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative |
TICAD |
Tokyo International Conference on African Development |
UKAN |
United Kingdom Advocacy Network |
UNCAC |
UN Convention Against Corruption |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UNECA |
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa |
UNFCCC |
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change |
UNICEF |
United Nations Children’s Fund |
UNITAID |
United Nations Funding Facility for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB |
UPE |
Universal primary education |
WFP |
World Food Programme |
WHO |
World Health Organization |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |
XDR-TB |
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis |
