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Country Indicators for Cross-Border Grantmaking

Look up a country to determine which due diligence steps a grant there warrants, and at what level of review.

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What this can mean for a grant

Check each source directly before making any grantmaking decision. This page presents public information for general reference only and is not legal advice. Each source updates on its own schedule, and each view shows the date it was last checked. None of the organizations named as sources has reviewed, approved or endorsed this page. The page is not a screening result and creates no professional relationship; use of it is subject to our Terms of Use. Every indicator is also available as text: search for a country to read its details. Spotted an error? Tell us; corrections are listed with dates at the foot of this page.

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Each indicator links to its source in the country panel. Check each source directly before any grantmaking decision.

Control of Corruption

About this indicator

This indicator shows the World Bank’s Control of Corruption score, an estimate of how far public power in a country is used for private gain, including petty and grand corruption and capture of the state by elites and private interests. It combines perceptions data from many sources. Scores run from 0 to 100, and higher scores mean stronger control of corruption. Scores are rounded to whole numbers.

Official sources

Data from World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators, Control of Corruption governance score (0 to 100), 2025 data, accessed 23 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. This is an adaptation of an original work by The World Bank. Views and opinions expressed in the adaptation are the sole responsibility of the author or authors of the adaptation and are not endorsed by The World Bank.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) status

About this indicator

This indicator shows whether the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental body that sets global standards against money laundering and terrorist financing, has placed a country on one of its two lists for weaknesses in those defenses. The black list is FATF’s list of High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action. The grey list is its list of Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring. Every other jurisdiction is shown as not listed.

The country details box also shows when each country was last evaluated by FATF or its regional body, with a link to the published ratings on FATF’s website.

Official sources

Data from FATF (June 2026), High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action and Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring, licensed under CC BY 4.0, as of the FATF Plenary of 17 to 19 June 2026 (the next Plenary meets 28 to 30 October 2026); FATF (2026), Consolidated assessment ratings, 2013 and 2022 Methodologies (accessed on 24 October 2026), for evaluation dates and assessment bodies.

This is an adaptation of an original work by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this adaptation should not be reported as representing the official views of the FATF or of its Members or of its Secretariat.

Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) presence

About this indicator

This indicator shows whether organizations that the U.S. Department of State has designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, are present in a country. Groups are listed by their official names. “Identified” means a designated organization operates in the country, is based there, or maintains financing or support networks there. Isolated plots, activity near a border and inspired activity are not counted. “None identified” means Paragon found no such presence in the sources it reviewed; it is not a guarantee that none exists. “Not covered” means this view does not cover the country; it is not a finding either way. Other U.S. terrorism listings and other governments’ lists are not included.

Official sources

Country presence reflects Paragon Philanthropy’s reading of the State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2024 and subsequent designation notices, current through 15 October 2026. Countries outside that reading are shown as not covered.

U.S. government information is summarized by Paragon Philanthropy from the sources named.

Sanctions

About this indicator

This indicator shows the sanctions programs that the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland and Australia maintain for a specific country, whether they restrict dealings with the country as a whole or target particular people, entities or sectors there. U.S. programs are labeled “comprehensive” where they embargo nearly all dealings with the country, and “targeted” otherwise. Sanctions that are not tied to a country, such as counter-terrorism, narcotics, cyber and human rights sanctions, can apply to listed persons anywhere and are not shown. The EU also applies every UN sanctions regime.

Official sources

Data from U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); European Union; United Nations Security Council; UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Global Affairs Canada and the Justice Laws website; Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and Fedlex; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Checked 25 October 2026. Program and regime names are summarized by Paragon Philanthropy from each source; regime titles link to the official texts, and nothing here is an official version. EU information © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. UK information contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Swiss ordinance titles are Paragon Philanthropy’s English renderings of the official German titles; each links to the official text on Fedlex. Australian information: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website, www.dfat.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 4.0; some DFAT framework pages are reached through the Australian Sanctions Office Annual Report 2025.

How Paragon Can Help

Country indicators, such as sanctions programs, FATF listing, terrorist group presence and corruption scores, describe the country where a grantee operates. They say nothing about the grantee itself. Paragon’s vetting team screens what country indicators do not cover: the organization, the people who run it, and the entities and banks around it, at the level of review you set for each grant.

Anti-Terrorist Financing Screening (ATFS) screens the organization, its leadership, its owners and controlling entities, and its banks against sanctions and terrorism lists. Its report records the country indicators on this map as escalation considerations.

Higher-Risk Anti-Terrorist Financing Screening (ATFS-HR) adds national sanctions screening, adverse media review, banking documentation, and review of policies and downstream partner oversight, for grants where several risk factors coincide.

Politically Exposed Persons Screening checks the same individuals against records of current and former public officials and their relatives and close associates.

Further reading

The When to Escalate guide explains which country and grant-level indicators may call for review beyond a baseline screen.

The Four-Tier Framework sets out four levels of review, from baseline screening to integrity due diligence, matched to the risk of each grant.

Risk Factors in International Grantmaking covers the grant-level factors that sit alongside these country indicators, such as grant size, regranting and first-time relationships.

Corrections log. 26 October 2026: added missing EU, Swiss or UK sanctions entries for Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Syria and Yemen; corrected 13 links to Australian sources; added missing listing labels for six terrorist groups. No map colour changed.

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