The Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) Secretariat updated its TOSSD data visualization tool. TOSSD now includes data on 2021 activities, collected from 106 providers, and covers more than one million activities on available development support.

TOSSD is an international standard that measures “the full array of resources to promote sustainable development in developing countries,” including all official resources and private resources mobilized through official means. As a statistical framework agreed by a diverse group of countries and organizations, TOSSD “aims to ensure a coherent, comparable, unified system to track SDG-related investments.” In so doing, it supports development planning and SDG monitoring, and “helps identify priorities to finance sustainable development.”

On 2 March 2023, the TOSSD Secretariat published the third set of TOSSD data on 2021 activities, contributed by 106 providers. The second set of data on 2020 activities and the first set of data on 2019 activities were released in 2022 and 2021, respectively.

The third set of data encompasses: provider countries; multilateral organizations, including most UN entities, all multilateral development banks (MDBs) except the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank; and South-South cooperation providers such as Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Nigeria, and Peru.

The new data reveal that reporting on the SDGs improved in TOSSD in 2021, with 61% of disbursements assigned to at least one SDG or target, compared to 51% in 2020 – an improvement of ten percentage points in one year.

In July 2015, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) called for the development of TOSSD in an “open, inclusive and transparent manner” (paragraph 55). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) serves as the Secretariat to the TOSSD Task Force, which was created in 2017.

The TOSSD Task Force includes experts from provider and recipient countries and from multilateral organizations. The Task Force is responsible for the development and maintenance of the TOSSD methodology, for which it consults experts on specific issues, such as peace and security or communicable diseases. Civil society participates in the Task Force as an observer.

TOSSD seeks to support countries in their reporting efforts to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). [About TOSSD] [TOSSD: How to Use] [About the Data]