The full list of countries eligible for a central budget contribution includes all low and medium human development index countries as well as some additional Ares partner countries:
- Countries ranked in the low human development index category, according to the 2020 ranking:
Afghanistan, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Haïti, Lesotho, Libéria, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritanie, Mozambique, Niger, Nigéria, Ouganda, République centrafricaine, République démocratique du Congo, Rwanda, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Soudan, Soudan du Sud, Tanzanie, Tchad, Togo, Yémen.
- Countries ranked in the middle human development index category, according to the 2020 ranking:
Angola, Bangladesh, Bhoutan, Cabo Verde, Cambodge, Cameroun, Comores, Congo, El Salvador, Eswatini (Royaume d’), Ghana, Guatemala, Guinée équatoriale, Guyana, Honduras, Îles Salomon, Inde, Iraq, Kenya, Kirghizistan, Kiribati, Maroc, Micronésie (États fédérés de), Myanmar, Namibie, Népal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, République arabe syrienne, République démocratique populaire lao, São Tomé-et-Principe, Tadjikistan, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Zambie, Zimbabwe.
- ARES partner countries not included in the two lists above:
Bolivie, Cuba, Equateur, Indonésie, Pérou, Philippines, Afrique du Sud, Tunisie, Vietnam