In “Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development,” adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015,
“ODA providers reaffirm their respective commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance (ODA/GNI) to developing countries and 0.15 per cent to 0.2 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries.” [§43]
Global trends in official development assistance (ODA) is set out in the following two pages.
Topics:
Overview of DAC donors’ ODA financing for development cooperation
Updated April 2017
1. Global trends in DAC donors’ Official Development Cooperation (ODA)
2. Achieving the 0.7% target
3. Individual donor trends
Global trends in the allocation of donor ODA
Updated April 2017
This page looks at trends in the allocation of global ODA to poverty eradication, gender equality, humanitarian assistance, climate finance, CSOs, the private sector and South-South cooperation.
NOTE: The statistics and commentary on these pages have been derived from Brian Tomlinson, Global Aid Trends, 2016, Financing Agenda 2030: Where are the Resources? in the Reality of Aid Network, 2016 Global Reality of Aid Report, October 2016. A more in-depth analysis of these trends can be found in this Report.
Global statistics on ODA has been recently updated in Brian Tomlinson, September, 2018. Trends in the Reality of Aid, 2018: Growing diversions of ODA and diminished resources for the SDGs. A chapter for the Reality of Aid Global Report, 2018, Changing Faces of Aid (forthcoming). This update is not yet reflected in the statistics profiled on these pages for global aid trends.