4.3 Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD)
Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) is the only statistical measure capturing the total efforts contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reporting on TOSSD also contains a keyword field similar to the one in CRS reporting, which is being used for reporting on the COVID-19 response as well as on climate mitigation and adaptation. In April 2022, the International TOSSD Task Force agreed to extend the use of keywords to user-defined ones in addition to the pre-determined ones managed by the TOSSD Secretariat. This also allows for one or several TEI keywords to be included.
The information on TEIs through TOSSD reporting is expected to be largely similar to that through CRS reporting, but in a more coherent format. Moreover, TOSSD has the potential to capture non-ODA eligible funding from (E)DFIs and export credit agencies more comprehensively than the CRS. Most Member States have put in place the tools to use the potential of TOSSD.
In view of the above, actors following a TE approach are encouraged to use the TEI keyword(s) in TOSSD reporting. This will allow to further mainstream TEI tracking now and lay the foundation for the longer-term ambition to aggregate financial TEI reporting based on TOSSD. The financial tracking of TEIs in TOSSD does not represent a significant additional burden to Member States who already put this in place in their CRS reporting.