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Reporting private services for development cooperation statistics

Service Description

Every year, statistics are collected in Germany on the amount of financial contributions to development cooperation. This survey is carried out by the Federal Statistical Office on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Both public contributions and contributions for private development cooperation are taken into account when compiling the annual statistics. The Federal Statistical Office relies on the voluntary reporting of private contributions so that the German contributions can be depicted as comprehensively and realistically as possible.

Process flow

You can submit your details online using the IDEV web form:

  • online (IDEV web form)

Online:

  • Apply online or by telephone for the access link for the IDEV online data collection portal.
  • Complete the IDEV web form and submit the declaration online.

Requirements

Private services must be

  • be financed from own funds and donations from NGOs (including membership fees).

Under this condition, you can report the following services:

  • Services provided by NGOs for projects in developing countries according to the OECD country list
  • Development services that are provided in Germany
    • For example, development policy awareness-raising measures such as lectures, brochures, discussion rounds
  • Administrative, personnel, travel and transportation costs
    • These must be necessary for the provision of development cooperation services.

Examples of eligible services are

  • peacekeeping
  • civil police work
  • social and cultural projects
  • refugee aid
  • research
  • counter-terrorism
  • Study place costs

You cannot report the following benefits:

  • Measures by church organizations such as
    • pastoral care
    • Training of priests
    • Building churches
  • Services to transition countries that are not included in the OECD's current list of developing countries
  • public subsidies
  • Funds that are passed on to other German organizations for their projects.

Which documents are required?

List of services, each assigned to a developing country or (if not assignable to individual countries) the associated region.

What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

The survey is carried out annually in spring for the previous reporting year. The deadline for reporting data is generally March 31 of the current year. Please ask the Federal Statistical Office about the possibility of extending the deadline for reporting your data for the current financial year.

Processing duration

To complete the questionnaire or to submit the data Depending on the number of services to be reported, you will generally need between 10 minutes and 2 hours .

Legal basis

Applications / forms

No legal remedies are provided for.

Appeal

Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online services available: Yes

What else should I know?

There are no indications or special features.

Further Information

Author

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Federal Statistical Office (Destatis)

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Technically approved by

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Professionally released on

01.02.2022

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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