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Oct 13, 2021 · The Secretary-General proposes a 2022 budget of $3.12 billion before recosting, including $730.7 million for special political missions, which is a reduction of $88.4 million, or 2.8 per cent,...
Noting that humanitarian expenditure has increased by 164 per cent over the past decade while development spending remained roughly the same, he said that the diversion of developed...
Aug 22, 2021 · The recently published UN 2021 Financing for Sustainable Development Report warns that the pandemic could lead to a lost decade for development, noting that there is a sharply...
- Duty to Meet The Target
- UK Performance
- The Conservative Government Set Two Tests to Restore Spending
- Kbench Attempt to Restore 0.7% in 2021
- Reforming The Target
- Update Log
The International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 sets the duty to meet the target. If missed, the government must report to Parliament explaining why this was the case (explanations take the form of written statements). If relevant, the Act says, the explanation may include reference to economic or fiscal circumstance...
In 2020, the UK was one of only seven countries reporting to the OECD that it had met the 0.7% target(PDF). Only Germany spent more than the UK on aid both in absolute terms (US$29 billion, compared to the UK’s US$19 billion) and in proportional terms (0.75% of GNI, versus 0.70%). Since 1960, only 15 countries have ever met the UN target. Following...
In July 2021, then Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, published a statement setting out the tests required to be met to restore the 0.7% target. These are that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) shows that “on a sustainable basis” the country is not borrowing for day-to-day spending and the ratio of underlying debt to GDP is falling. The Commons vote...
In June 2021, Andrew Mitchell MP (then a backbench MP, later Minister for International Development) proposed an Amendment to the Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill 2021-22 to restore the target from 2022. However, the Speaker determined that the amendment was outside the scope of the Bill. An emergency debatewas instead held on 8 June 202...
In 2017, the government said it would seek to modernise the ODA rules to include some peacekeeping-related spending. No plans were announced. The International Development Committee has previously argued redefining ODA may undermine the focus on poverty reductionin aid spending. In 2020, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact also recommended th...
December 2023:Sections 2 and 3 updated following the 2023 Autumn statement and statistics on aid spending by other countries. March 2024:Added note on preliminary data that UK aid spending stood at 0.58% of GNI in 2023. July 2024:Added note on Labour Government position and analysis on returning to 0.7%
- Philip Brien, Philip Loft
- 2021
Jul 25, 2022 · In this week's edition: An analysis of the U.N.'s $29.6 billion spending in 2021, how development organizations are failing on pay transparency, and MDBs’ missing billions.
- David Ainsworth
As the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 details, encouraging progress was made towards SDG 1 in the years before COVID-19, with the share of the world’s population living in extreme...
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Within this context of growing humanitarian funding gaps, escalating needs and the failure to address underlying drivers of crisis in many countries experiencing protracted crisis, wider development finance to countries experiencing crisis is key.
