The OECD Development Assistance Committee adopts a very narrow definition of multilateral official development assistance (ODA). To assure reliable statistics and avoid double counting, contributions to international organisations earmarked for certain regions or programmes are designated as bilateral ODA expenditure. Only general non-tied core budget contributions count as multilateral ODA. Austrian multilateral ODA is therefore not equivalent to expenditure from the so-called multilateral budgets for development cooperation (such as the budget for multilateral ADC in the Foreign Ministry’s Development Cooperation Department or the Finance Ministry budget for cooperation with international financial institutions). 

Long-term trends and the detailed contributions of Austrian multilateral ODA are published in the ADC annual report.