It supports the UKs aim of promoting global prosperity, creating the broad-based and inclusive growth needed for poverty reduction, contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We also provide some thoughts concerning compliance and risk mitigation in this challenging environment. The Scottish Government, though its 10M pa International Development Fund, supports development work in its partner countries Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda and Pakistan, in pursuit of the Global Goals. Bilateral ODA is earmarked spend, i.e. This could have an impact on the recent trends of some recipient countries. For the departmental breakdown see Table 4b. The Home Office has "raided" the foreign aid budget as costs to support refugees in the UK triple, ministers claim. The rank (1:10) is on the y-axis, ODA spend (million ) is on the x-axis. This is an increase of 61 million in 2019 compared to 2018. The 2021 federal budget announced an additional $1.4 billion for international assistance over five years. Figure 13 provides a breakdown of sector spend by DFID and all Other Government Departments and other contributors of ODA (non-DFID). DITs ODA is administrative costs to support ODA capability and compliance. Japan - Japan is the largest contributor to foreign aid in Asia. Bilateral ODA to Africa increased steadily from 2015 briefly dropping in 2018 to 2,863 million. The estimate in 2018 and 2019 is based on published data from the European Commission on the UKs share of development expenditure. Official Development Assistance (ODA) is provided according to the standardised definitions and methodologies of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developments (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). As outlined above, these include programmes where there are designated benefitting countries or regions, but it is not possible to directly assign exact spend to them in the current administrative system, 22.0% of spend within this category consists of expenditure in the UK or another donor country (e.g. Figures for DAC donors final 2019 ODA will be published in December. In 2019, 659 million was delivered through the fund, an increase of 54 million compared to 2018. The DAC reviews the list every 3 years. For more details see background note on ODA spending and reporting. The government reduced its annual aid budget from 0.7% of gross national income (GNI), which is a measure of the amount produced by the economy, to 0.5% this year. . the social, economic or humanitarian assistance area it aims to support. Section 4.1 provides a detailed breakdown of ODA spending by recipient region and country; section 4.2 provides a breakdown of ODA spending by sector (for example, health or humanitarian aid); and . The Cross-Government Prosperity Fund has increased its ODA spend year on year, since the fund started spending ODA in 2016, as they move more programmes into implementation, despite DFIDs ODA spend increasing, DFIDs share of total ODA dropped from 74.9% in 2018 to 73.1% in 2019. Dark blue = LDCs/Other LICs (Least Developed Countries/Other Low Income Countries), light blue = LMICs (Lower Middle Income Countries), grey = UMICs (Upper Middle Income Countries). Figure 1: UK ODA levels ( billions) and ODA:GNI ratios (%), 1970 - 2019. For the 2019 ODA:GNI ratio, the GNI estimate is based on the pre-Blue Book 2019 framework since the first quarterly estimate of 2019 GNI under the new framework did not become available until 30 September 2019. The portfolio aims are delivered through a mix of researcher-led and commissioned calls delivered by NIHR and through partnerships with other global health research funders, through initiatives to develop and advance global health research.
