| ATM |
Automatic teller machine |
| BWIs |
Bretton Woods Institutions |
| CEPAL |
Spanish acronym for the UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean |
| CPA |
Coalition Provisional Authority (Iraq) |
| CSCs |
Country-Specific Configurations (United Nations Peacebuilding Commission) |
| DDR |
Disarming, demobilization, and reintegration |
| DRC |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
| ERSG |
Executive representative of the Secretary-General |
| FARC |
Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
| FUNDS |
Future United Nations Development System |
| FMLN |
Spanish acronym for the Farabundo Martà National Liberation Front |
| GDP |
Gross domestic product |
| GNI |
Gross national income |
| HIV/AIDS |
Human immunodeficiency virus |
| HDI |
Human Development Index |
| ICT |
Information and communications technology |
| IMF or Fund |
International Monetary Fund |
| MDGs |
Millennium Development Goals |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NGOs |
Non-governmental organizations |
| ODA |
OECD Official Development Assistance |
| ODF |
OECD Official Development Finance |
| OECD |
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ONUSAL |
United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador |
| MINUSAL |
United Nations Mission in El Salvador |
| PBFund |
United Nations Peacebuilding Fund |
| PRTs |
Provincial Reconstruction Teams |
| RENAMO |
Portuguese acronym for the Mozambican National Resistance |
| RPF |
Rwandan Patriotic Front |
| RZs |
Reconstruction zones |
| ERZs |
Export-oriented reconstruction zones |
| LRZs |
Local-production reconstruction zones |
| SIDA |
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency |
| SMEs |
Small and medium-sized enterprises |
| SRSG |
Special Representative of the Secretary-General |
| UCDP-PRIO |
Uppsala Conflict Data Program; International Peace Research Institute, Oslo |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNAMA |
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
| UNODC |
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| UNOMOZ |
United Nations Operation in Mozambique |
| UNTAC |
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
| UNU/WIDER |
United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research |
| URNG |
Spanish acronym for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity |
| USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
| USIP |
United States Institute of Peace |
| WDR |
World Bank World Development Report |