The CRS is a major source of information on sectoral and geographical distribution, as well as the terms and conditions of official development assistance, and it also plays a key role in the establishment of statistics on the external debt of developing and other countries.
Reporters supply detailed information on each commitment on an ongoing basis.
Each issue of the CRS presents individual commitments of ODA to countries of the DAC list of Aid Recipients entered into the CRS database for one geographical area. Countries are ordered alphabetically within regions. An Annex outlines the purpose of aid commitments . The presentation of the information is designed primarily to facilitate its use for country and sector programming and analysis. Within each country, transactions are ordered by sector, and within each sector, by donor.