Concept information
Preferred term
International Development Agency
Definition
- An international development agency is an organization dedicated to designing, implementing, and monitoring humanitarian and economic development-related projects, and in many cases it is dedicated to distributing and managing foreign aid and international assistance programs. An international development agency could be an intergovernmental organization (such as the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, World Health Organization, La Francophonie, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), a governmental agency (such as the United States Agency for International Development, Agencia Española de Cooperación para el Desarrollo, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) generally in a developed country, attached to a foreign affairs department responsible for the support of development assistance projects in underdeveloped and developing countries. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; International Development Agency]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/International_Development_Agency
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