Abbreviations and acronyms

Association of Family and Corporate Foundations

African Venture Philanthropy Association

Asian Venture Philanthropy Network

Building Evidence in Education

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

Chief Executive Officer

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Chief Learning Officer

Chinese Yuan Renminbi (currency of the People’s Republic of China)

21st Conference of the Parties (2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris)

Consumer price index

OECD’s Creditor Reporting System

Corporate social responsibility

OECD Development Assistance Committee

Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe

OECD Development Co-operation Directorate

OECD Development Centre

Development Impact Evaluation

Education technology

European Foundation Centre

Environmental, social and governance

Exchange traded funds

European Union

European Venture Philanthropy Association

Foreign direct investment

Financial instrument

Global Evaluation Initiative

Global Impact Investing Network

Human Rights and Democracy Network

International Aid Transparency Initiative

Impact Measurement and Management

International Policies and Politics Initiative

Internal Revenue Service (of the United States)

Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development

Impact Evaluation to Development Impact

Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange

Monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning

Managing for Sustainable Development Results

Mission-related investments

Non-communicable diseases

OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development

Non-governmental organisation

Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation

Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation

Non-profit organisations

Official development assistance

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Open Society Foundations

Philanthropy Advancing Women’s Human Rights

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study

OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment

OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment for Development

Public benefit organisation

Research and development

Result-based management

Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Sustainable Development Goal

Sawiris Foundation for Social Development

Social impact investing

Strategic learning and evaluation

Strategic Learning Manager

Sexually transmitted disease

OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey

Tri Hita Karana

International initiative for impact evaluation

Trends in Mathematics and Science Study

Television

Universal basic income

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment

United Kingdom

United States of America

United States dollar

United States Agency for International Development

World Diabetes Foundation

World Food Programme

World Health Organization

Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support